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CGXDisableUpdate slows me down

I moved to ML recently and getting so many problems. One is thsi;


1/2/13 9:09:06.789 PM WindowServer[99]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.

1/2/13 9:09:10.940 PM WindowServer[99]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 5.15 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)


Whatever I am doing is stopped, SBBOD and then 5 seconds later, tis fine. Thought the move to a dual cpu Mac pro would stop this crap, now it's still there.


Any suggestions of how I can stop this?


There are so many little things causing SBBOD, including


1/2/13 8:57:37.478 PM CalendarAgent[228]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Account refresh failed with error: Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 401.)" UserInfo=0x7f9954531130 {AccountName=sbcglobal.net, CalDAVErrFromRefresh=YES, CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7f9954523900 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 11,

entries =>

0 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x7f99545212f0 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "keep-alive"}

1 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7f99545202c0 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "text/html; charset=UTF-8"}

2 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7f9954521420 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "YTS/1.19.11"}

3 : Case Insensitive Key: Via = <CFString 0x7f9954530fd0 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "HTTP/1.1 calgate012.cal.sp2.yahoo.com (YahooTrafficServer/1.19.11 [c s f ])"}

4 : Case Insensitive Key: Age = <CFString 0x7fff7d162110 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "0"}

5 : Case Insensitive Key: P3P = <CFString 0x7f99545319e0 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE LOC GOV""}

6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7f9954519730 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:57:38 GMT"}

7 : Case Insensitive Key: Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x7fff7c6996f8 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "Identity"}

9 : Case Insensitive Key: Www-Authenticate = <CFString 0x7f9954526dd0 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "Basic realm="Zimbra""}

11 : Case Insensitive Key: Cache-Control = <CFString 0x7f9954520e00 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "private"}

12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x7f9954526980 [0x7fff7d18dfd0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}

}

}]



Thanks in advance for any help...

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 1TBHD, 12GB Ram

Posted on Jan 2, 2013 9:17 PM

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Apr 10, 2013 5:43 AM in response to Chris Winkler1

I have a similar problem on my iMac 24'' 3,06 GHz.
The Mac starts snappy but gets bogged down more and more. I reinstalled the OS, even by wiping the drive and reimporting from Time Machine. I removed any applications and extensions not compatible with Mountain Lion. I never scrubbed and cleaned any OS as this Mac in the last weeks - to no avail.


TTP finds no error, Drive Utility is happy, there's still RAM available and the processor is mostly idle.


In the Console, I get a lot of "WindowServer;CGXDisableUpdate: UI Updates were forcibly disabled by application "Whatever" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them."

In Activity Monitor, there's kernel_task with 84 threads open and 390 MB of physical RAM, the other RAM hogs are Safari and Safari web content.

Internet is slow. HD access is slow. Switching betweeb tabs? Opening a finder window? Slow. Never seen such a thing on a mac.



Does anybody have an idea? Or are there at least a couple more than just us three?

Apr 14, 2013 10:28 AM in response to Immo Junghaertchen

To explain at least my occurrence of this symptom: In my case, it was a failing hard drive that no diagnosis tool would recognize as error.
I narrowed it down when I started from an external drive and copied files from the internal drive to another drive. It took more than an hour to copy 80 MB - independently from target drive: Firewire and network drive were both very slow.
I replaced the internal HD and have no problem any more.


To find out whether your HD is failing, too, you should try copying files from the internal drive, or to it, and that at times when your Mac reacts slowly - mine was fine one day, incredibly slow the next.


Replacing the Hard Drive should be done by an experienced technician, this is a warranty-voiding process (except on some MacBook Pros/MacBooks).


Good luck!

CGXDisableUpdate slows me down

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