[OSX-Users] Re: Snow Leopard Lock Ups

[Leslie Carr]

Are the lockups accompanied by the spinny ball of impending doom?
Check the system logs for disk I/O errors, because the symptoms that  
you describe sound like what happens to me.
--
les



On 16 Sep 2009, at 01:34, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> I wish I'd not bothered to upgrade to Snow Leopard (so early). I've  
> noticed no improvements I give a damn about and have had to hard- 
> reset about once every 48 hours when it locks up.
>
> Mostly I use:
> Firefox 3.5.3, thunderbird, Terminal, VLC
>
> Every now and then it starts locking up. I can't tell exactly why,  
> but it can't start new apps, current apps start freezing, one by  
> one, the terminal won't execute new commands (just hangs when you  
> try). Eventually everything locks up and a hard-reset is the only  
> option.
>
> I found a list of software issues: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/  
> but none of them explain a total OS lockup. I also run dropbox and  
> sophos, although I don't really care about them, so it could be them  
> causing problems.
>
> dang. My Mac just lost the reliability which made it good. :(
>
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>
> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>
> Web Projects Manager, University of Southampton, School of  
> Electronics and Computer Science
>