Typing and window scrolling pause, short pause (freezes)

No drivers installed.

This kind <- actually I just typed this and it appeared right after I finished the 2 words...

The freezes are seemingly to do with processor load? Perhaps the finder is having to wait until another process finishes before allowing my words to appear, or scroll a window up or down.

This maybe a very common problem? Please advise if anyone else experiencing the micro-freezes.

Thanks again.

42034 Safari mycomputer 0.1 26 494.82 MB 1.93 GB Intel

Now that is excessive.

53220 Camino mycomputer 0.0 11 35.39 MB 968.23 MB Intel

Does anyone experience the 'pause-while-typing' problem?

Disabled all widgets. I had 3 running.
I am testing now... But am still experiencing these micro pauses... so strange.

Thank you for your response.

I have to report that I never use wireless, network latency kills my experience...
Always have ethernet cable plugged in.

However, the micro-pauses are not internet/network related. I could be offline typing in textedit and the machine pauses for say, half a second or less. I type some words, then the machine catches up - naturally happening now too 🙂

Often it occurs when I leave an app, or let the machine sit for a minute or so then go back to typing, or scrolling. But it is not constant, I can not reproduce the issue on demand - it is a seemingly random event.

I went to a friend who has next version MBP with led screen, max ram etc, and he thinks he gets micro-pauses too. ie. typing or scrolling and a micro-freeze, then catch up.

Just today I got slightly frustrated as I use Command+w to close windows, then the freeze, I made the keystroke again as I did not think I had done it right, then the computer catches up and closes my 2 top windows (browser tabs) which ruined my working space.

As you can probably tell this is a huge interruption to my work process and enough to drive any sane person mad 🙂

I have 25GB free space on hard drive, usually don't have many apps open at once and have run permission fixes etc recently.

I have a funny feeling this is a computer problem as I used to see it all the time in the 80's when I typed on a BBC - 32k ram etc. I could type a whole sentence, then wait for that computer to catch up... I usually only get to 1-3 words on my MBP...

My Ti667 also had this problem, the machine would make a kind of squeek, like some kind of hardrive write, not print the typing, then catch up. I though it was annoying then too 🙂

I have to laugh really, I try to use the smallest app possible to type now due to pauses - so I use textedit... But even that has these pauses.

Well, that is it - I really appreciate any suggestions or some experiences that other people may be having with this problem....

Many thanks.

Message was edited by: Matt Hardy

Getting a bit personal 🙂

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I think this is all about the processor threads not paying attention to the user - itunes does not pause in the same way, that would make it unusable. Typing should really be without freezes I would have thought.

My itunes plays fine.

Oh - I actually have the latest OS X updates too, fyi

Yes I have actually adjusted these settings - normally keyboard delay 2 from shortest, key repeat 1 from fastest.

I think that the micro-freeze is not about the speed of repeat, for example I put it on fastest, then a freeze happens, then it catches up as per other settings.

I put them on fastest and I do accidently get more that one letter when I type slower 😉
Am testing the typing now and am not sure if I will get any freezes. But you never know what the case may be with the computer at any one time...

I will report back after trying fastest settings...

Thanks for your response.

Hi,

I am still getting these micro freezes. In fact just as I typed 'I am still...' the mac paused, then caught up on the text.

So, what this suggests is that when I am using safari, I click into a textarea and start typing, then the mac must process very hard to stop my typing being visible as I type, for about .5 of a second.

Now, I am listening to streaming radio on itunes, and that is not pausing at all, perhaps this is safari problem?

No wait, I get the same micro freezes in Text Edit.

Does anyone else in the world experience these effects?
It is such a problem, I am getting too tired.

Any suggestions, similar experiences appreciated.

Many thanks