[OSX-Users] Re: Snow Leopard Lock Ups

[Daniel Thorpe]

Chris,

I've been running SL for quite a while now and haven't had any  
problems with the OS freezing, and have never been forced to restart  
it due to poor performance. I use Safari instead of Firefox, Mail  
instead of Thunderbird, and although I don't watch videos on this  
machine, I'd use the new Quicktime Player over VLC.  However, I do use  
Terminal, Xcode, Interface Builder, BBEdit, TextMate, Tweetie,  
Activity Monitor, iTunes, Coda, Photoshop, DataGraph, Transmit, iCal,  
Omnigraffle, Adium, MacTeX, BibDesk and Things all quite regularly.

So, as a test, why not try Safari for a bit, and refrain from using  
Thunderbird if you can get your email from webmail, and if you install  
Perian, the new Quicktime Player is much more responsive than the old  
Quicktime Player (although I admit it still does support playlists!).   
Then after a week or so, see how Snow Leopard is behaving.

Cheers
Dan

p.s. Without wanting to start a riot on the list, I would venture that  
the Mozilla apps aren't exactly typical "good Mac OS citizens" with  
their exotic build system....


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
>