Q: Link for how to kill spindump -- Apple please fix this infuriating software

People have been complaining about spindump (stuttering audio, spindump taking over the entire processor and thrashing the disk when Leopard thinks a program "is not responding") for well over a year and it seems like Apple has done nothing to mitigate the problems with it.

While I think I understand the need for spindump (to dump the contents of memory to disk at the moment of the offending program hangs so that it can be used for the crash reporter), the way it's implemented is horrible, and causes wild CPU usage and disk thrashing often when the machine can least afford it -- when a program is being paged in from disk and appears to the system to be hanging.

I used the method here: http://matthew.kurowski.org/?p=109 to disable spindump, and it is just absolutely amazing how much more responsive my Mac is when it's having to page in huge applications (like Aperture/Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver) from virtual memory after having swapped them out to disk (which even with 4GB RAM tends to happen often for me because I tend to leave about 20 apps open at once). I now no longer have to look into Activity Monitor to see spindump fighting with all my other apps for processor and disk transfer bandwidth.