Snow Leopard freezes over time

Hi, I am using LDAP and Kerberos from an Open Directory. But the local system uses a similar system to check credentials and I have the same issue with local users.

I fixed my machine at least, uptime: 2 days, 15h 08m. And it wasn't because of bad extensions (although Adobe VersionCue CS4 made my machine crash after sleep), just restart DirectoryService every so often.

I wrote a script to do this as I detailed before. Check my blog at http://rcbi.rochester.edu/users/vanooste for more information.

I did, but, no, I can't remember if it froze or not. Sorry

I wipped the partition and reinstalled Slow Leopard because of these issues. It was good for about 1.5 days but the morning it would not wake-up from sleep. I found the following in my system log...

Oct 12 09:57:20 Mikes-MacBook [0x0-0x1c01c].com.apple.iTunes[348]: Child process initialized.
Oct 12 10:00:21 Mikes-MacBook [0x0-0xd00d].org.mozilla.camino[196]: Debugger() was called!
Oct 12 10:02:42 Mikes-MacBook WindowServer[53]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Oct 12 10:02:42 Mikes-MacBook com.apple.WindowServer[53]: Mon Oct 12 10:02:42 Mikes-MacBook.local WindowServer[53] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Oct 12 10:07:06 Mikes-MacBook [0x0-0xd00d].org.mozilla.camino[196]: Debugger() was called!
Oct 12 10:09:28 Mikes-MacBook [0x0-0xd00d].org.mozilla.camino[196]: Debugger() was called!
Oct 12 10:24:05 Mikes-MacBook com.apple.usbmuxd[21]: MuxClearPipeStall Can't clear pipe stall 2. Error: 0xe00002ed
Oct 12 10:37:54 Mikes-MacBook loginwindow[29]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Oct 12 11:39:07 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: * launchd[1] has started up. *
Oct 12 11:39:11 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected

I had to press and hold the power button. So much for "It just Works!!!" If I had to guess, I would say Slow Leopard is having a problem with my external monitor on the display port. Hello nVidia. Where are you?

Message was edited by: Olias

Same thing for me on my 2009 MBP. (Spinning beach ball, app temporary freeze)

Occurs regularly (even 5-10 minutes) in Mail.app, Safari.app, and Vienna (newsreader). Other apps too, but not so regularly.

Hope someone can come up with an answer.

If you guys have any "non-apple" memory that you have installed,ie purchased from owc, or others, remove them, and see if your problem disappears. I did remove the 4GB memory I have had installed and the all the problem disappeared.

Before the upgrade to snow leopard I could leave my macbook pro 13" unplugged in battery mode for hours, and return to take it out of sleep mode with lots of battery life remaining. Now when I return it is dead, with battery completely drained, and will only return to life if I plug it in. Is there a bug in snow leopard that is allowing my battery to drain rapidly in sleep mode? Is the only fix to this problem to return to leopard? Much of what I loved about the mobility of my macbook has suddenly vanished, when I thought I was "upgrading." Beyond the annoyance of diminished battery life, I am concerned that this is putting undue strain on my battery and diminishing its life (if it hasn't already somehow ruined it).

That's not good about the battery... I'll have to test mine now. But how does this relate to the topic of SL crapping out over time? Probably best to start a new topic so that others can find it and chime in.

I removed VMWare and used Parallels for a few days ... same thing, my iMac froze again while downloading a TV show on iTunes. I have reinstalled VMWare and removed MacFuse ... it has been 2 days without a crash.

Apple has released a "Performance Update" for certain Mac models. I was one of them. I've installed the update, but only 30 minutes has gone by. So far, so good.

Yes,

Try downloading and installing this recently released Performance Update 1.0 for Snow Leopard (10.6).

DALE

I am curious as to how many people has tried this Performance Update before I re-install SL again. I would hate have to go through the process of re-installing Leopard again. If anyone has had luck with this please post.

Dale, did it work for you?

I just tried it on my Mac Pro Twin 3.0Ghz workstation and it says I do not have the correct hardware. I see you too have a Mac Pro...did you run the update on that?

Message was edited by: Neil Paisnel
Ah just re read your sig....think your machine is the dual core mac pro...yes?

Hello!

I faced all the problems mentioned in this thread: freeze, snowball, ...
I have installed the performance update and at the moment it looks like all the problems are gone.

Best regards

KillNTime wrote:
I am curious as to how many people has tried this Performance Update before I re-install SL again.

I +spread the word+ on the update last nite to as many beachball/freezing threads as I could find.

So far, 18 or so posters said it totally solved their problem for now.
The only ones that didn't have luck were those who had Mac's not listed in this About the Performance update link.

DALE

Neil Paisnel wrote:
Dale, did it work for you?

Well, I am helping out in this forum but am waiting to install 10.6 till about version 10.6.5 as I always do with OS upgrades.

Just the safe way to go, in my opinion.

Dale