Q: Random freezing from Snow Leopard - total lock-up for about 30 seconds

Im having the same problem using Firefox as well...

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in my desperation i tried one more thing (haha), i deleted my bootcamp partition and !whoop! even without a reboot sl went back to normal.
ive three possible reasons for that:
first maybe its some kind of simple bug in my ntfs driver? but actually i tried to different and also none. nothing helped.
maybe its related to a just a bug in snow leopards way to handle several partitions at all?
or its just the aditional space on the hd that pushes the triggerpoint for our fancy "beachballparty" backwards.

still its just a stupid workarround because i need windows aswell.

so, do you guys have several partitions on your hardisk? or more than one hd at all? just an idea...

I had the freezing issue, used the snow leopard cache cleaner app and the issue seemed to be resolved.

I recently reformatted and the issue is back. This is on a completely clean machine. I did, unfortunately, install a number of different third party apps.

Let's see if anyone else shares any of these:

- 1password
- Logitech Control Center (Version 3.1 - messes up how your tabs look in safari)
- Tweetie
- Bowtie

The Insert hang detected messaging is typically preceded by Tweetie for some reason, but I doubt that's the culprit. My guess thus far is the logitech control center - anyone else have this? Please say yes!

Hi Bob,

I have already sent the feedback to Apple team more than one time and no response, yet thanks for the information.

It is just frustrating to have instability on your OS. Let us hope they come out with a proper release to fix the mentioned issues.

Regards,

A. Elyan

resetting Safari and repairing permissions seems to have resolved my issues.

Unfortunately not for me...

I repaired permissions and re-installed Flash. The frequence in which the spinning wheel occurs is now less, but it is still there.

BTW, the problem is not only Safari related, it also occurs in Firefox.

Also, movies freeze for 15 - 20 seconds once or twice every hour (both - in Quicktime 10 and VLC).

Very annoying problem. I hope it will be fixed with 10.6.2

Fred

Jabber Babaganosch wrote:
Also, movies freeze for 15 - 20 seconds once or twice every hour (both - in Quicktime 10 and VLC).

While I got rid of the wheel of death most of the time, this is the only occasion when it comes back, strange. Must be some I/O that blocks the whole machine.

I don't have (and have never had) any contextual menu extensions installed on my computer so that's not the issue.

I find it hard for any new mac user (especially Converts) in the last 3 years to not have installed any contextual menu extensions. Most of the Major apps like Roxio Toast, Stuffit & Several others install extensions of different types. At the moment I'm sick with the flu and have a huge amount of work to do over the next week. If anyone really wants a hand tracking things down my ichat id is ZoeRoss, When I log into this id I'll have some spare tie to help.

I wonder if the following might play a role:

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10643

"The bug sounds minor, but it is really very important because Apple events are crucial to so much of what goes on under the hood in Mac OS X, and in any case it has caused everyone's scripts to break (whether written in AppleScript, rb-appscript, or anything else that sends Apple events). The underlying Apple event manager assigns a new return ID to every Apple event, and so sooner or later some Apple event is going to hit the magic FFFF value, and whatever sent that Apple event is going to error out, apparently randomly. You may even have seen such random errors on your machine without knowing it. Anyhow, it's an easy bug to understand, and there are already indications that Apple will roll a fix into the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update, whenever that comes out. What's hard to understand is how Apple came to inflict breakage on such a fundamental mechanism in the first place."

But I guess it would be more widespread if it is. Plus it wouldn't really explain that the frequency of the hangs seems to increase the longer your uptime. That fact really gives the swap file theory some merit.

-sas

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.

This could be it. Funny how they describe the fix: "addresses hard drive stall reported by SMALL number of users"

Yes,

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

 

DALE

 

What about other models? I can't install the update on mine (early 2008 MBP) yet I have same problems as others