Q: QuickLook Crashing
Hello,
I recently installed an SSD (m4 crucial latest firmware) with TRIM enabled on my late 2011 MBP 13".
I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.1, enabled FileVault 2 and everything was working fine for about 2 weeks until Finder just started randomly killing itself every time I mounted a DMG or just launched some random app.
At the time I was getting this error:
com.apple.quicklook.satellite[205]: [QL] Using too much memory (308MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting immediately to clean up.
Backed up all my files manually and did another clean install.
Installed a few applications, re-enabled FileVault, waited 2 days, everything was running fine.
Decided it was time to copy my files back over.
Whilst copying over Ethernet with Wifi enabled, I disabled the wifi, Finder hangs had to hard reset.
On reboot - error was back:
12/09/2012 23:24:27.883 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[172]: [QL] Using
too much memory (300 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting
immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:29.883 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[172]: [QL] Using
too much memory (616 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting
immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:29.943 com.apple.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D[172])
Exited: Killed: 9
12/09/2012 23:24:29.943 com.apple.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D)
Throttling respawn: Will start in 2 seconds
12/09/2012 23:24:33.509 awacsd[69]: Exiting
12/09/2012 23:24:35.559 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100002
created
12/09/2012 23:24:36.108 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[205]: [QL] Using
too much memory (308 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting
immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:36.129 com.apple.launchd[1]:
(com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D[205])
Exited: Killed: 9
12/09/2012 23:24:39.824 com.apple.launchd[1]:
com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication[108]) Exit timeout
elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
I cannot find anything similar on Google and for the life cannot figure what is wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
Posted on Sep 12, 2012 4:11 PM
Hi guys, I did manage to solve this in the end. I forgot about this thread and answered it over on Stack Exchange (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63962/strange-quicklook-error/66964#669 64).
Long story short I had the same problem as sulphur, it turned out to be a 4.3mb CSV file on my desktop that quicklook had issue with. Deleted it and everything went back to normal.
Having done numerous clean installs, I finally realised it only ever happened when I started copying my data from my NAS back onto my mac - 300GB worth. In order to find the culprit I thought I would only copy a folder I really needed which were a few documents I had, about 100mb worth. Its when I copied that folder I realised that my system was misbehaving and started copying each and every file one by one until I came across that particular CSV file. I have other CSV files but that specific one for some reason just didn't agree with my system.
I haven't been able to figure out why though...
Posted on Oct 25, 2012 7:20 AM