Help with KoLmafia "pauses"

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Ethelred

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Starting today with KoLmafia-13910.jar, I'm seeing occasional "pauses" of 30 to 60 seconds, or even longer. The Main Interface window border remains grey and nothing is being printed to the Graphical CLI window. I encoutered it while logging in, later while running a script and using the autoadventure feature, and then again while burning down some MP by summoning items at my campground via the relay browser. Is anybody else experiencing this problem? What can I do to find out what's going on during these "pauses"? Can anyone suggest a tool I might be able to use to see if my network is somehow sluggish? I'm running on MacOS X, 10.9.2. Right now it's more a matter of curiousity about what's going on than a real problem since it always seems to recover and continue after a short (but seems long) while. However, it is new behaviour and I wonder what's at the root of it. Or is there some way to find out what mafia is doing/waiting for during these pauses?

Thanks for any help you can provide and all the work the mafia devs do to keep things running so well.
 
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Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks - OS X 10.9 - I have been seeing things like this, for the first time ever. Java is also considerably slower to render dialogs, and when my backup disk decides to spin up, everything stops getting any CPU time for many seconds. You are opening a web page? Sorry - network I/O has to wait until the disk driver decides to stop blocking everything else.

As an example, I was running TurboTax (which is not even a Java program). I clicked on a button which wanted to open a dialog for me. Exactly when it started rendering it, the disk started spinning up. A dialog appeared. There was no text. There were three buttons on the bottom, each labeled "Button". When the disk decided that it was done, the text on the buttons changed to what it was supposed to be and the text in the dialog appeared.

This is an issue with OS X 10.9. I really regret upgrading. I hope that they fix these issues, eventually, so that both you and I can be happy again.
 
Funny you should mention TurboTax. I installed that on Sunday and my daughter did her taxes with it. When I started noticing the "pauses", I checked with top to see if any strange helpers had been left running. I didn't see anything, but that made me realize I should do a reboot. Strangely enough, no "pauses" today. D'oh! Don't know why I didn't think to do that before posting. Anyhow, problem seems to be resolved and, as usual, chalk up another one to to PEBKAC.
 
Ethelred said:
Anyhow, problem seems to be resolved and, as usual, chalk up another one to to PEBKAC.
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If the problem was fixed by a reboot, blaming the user is unfair. Rebooting just hides the problem for a while. The cause was not fixed.
 
Bale said:
It seems much more likely the actual cause was some interaction of Turbo Tax and Mavericks which needs to be addressed by them.
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I'm not sure how to read this. More likely than user error? Yes. I certainly wasn't implying it was a mafia bug.
 
I'm not really sure why I was pointing that out. I think I was referring to Veracity's original belief that it was just Mavericks, but that seems like an odd thing to point out especially since I don't know anything about it. And then why would I have quoted your post? In my defense I was sleepy when I posted.
 
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Bale said:
I'm not really sure why I was pointing that out. I think I was referring to Veracity's original belief that it was just Mavericks, but that seems like an odd thing to point out especially since I don't know anything about it. And then why would I have quoted your post? In my defense I was sleepy when I posted.
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No worries. My posts always make a lot more sense to me when I'm writing them than when I read them a few days later.
 
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