[OSX-Users] Re: Snow Leopard Lock Ups

[Christopher Gutteridge]

That's a cute idea but I just had another lockup start. Interestingly 
each time the first thing to lock is the top right menu.

This time I killed a bunch of apps, via the terminal. The one which 
seemed to fix it was: SystemUIServer. The lockup appeared to start with 
"spotlight".

I use VLC to listen to mp3 audio books, so utterly require a placelist, 
and deeply dislike using iTunes for this purpose. If key applications 
are broken in snow leopard then that bloody sucks. I'm about as willing 
to shift to Safari as I would be if firefox started crashing in Widows 
so I was advised to use IE.

My key point in all of this is that Snow Leopard has some issues. Just 
because they don't hit everyone doesn't mean their not there. If you 
don't *need* Snow Leopard then it might be worth holding off rushing 
into an upgrade.




Daniel Thorpe wrote:
> 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
>>
>

-- 
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