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MacBook Pro - Single app starts freezing, then spreads to all apps/entire system.

For the past two days my MBP has been freezing up on about once/hour, if not more often than that. It starts with a single program giving me the spinning beach ball. Other programs still remain responsive, but they don't function correctly. For example, the last time it happened, my text editor initially was giving me the beach ball. I could still, however, go back to Chrome and switch between open tabs. However, I couldn't open any new tabs or navigate to a new page. After a minute or so I then got the beach ball on Chrome, and then it was everywhere. The dock is unresponsive, the menu bar is unresponsive. My only option is to hold the power button down and restart.


So far I have run the Repair Disk utility, and it says the volume appears to be OK. I also ran 2 memory tests using a program called MemTest. Those results also came back with no problems. I also turned off automatic brightness, but the problem has persisted.


One thing I should mention is that a few hours before this first happened, I downloaded a program from the AppStore called Memory Clean. I never actually ran it to free up memory, because the computer froze shortly after installing it, and so I uninstalled it immediately after rebooting, just incase that was what was freezing up my computer. Since it has been removed the problem has still happened several times.


Any suggestions on what I could try?


Here is my EtreCheck dump:


Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2

1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores

8 GB RAM


Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB

AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 512 MB


Startup Items:

ciscod - Path: /System/Library/StartupItems/ciscod


System Software:

OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) - Uptime: 0 days 0:16:6


Disk Information:

M4-CT128M4SSD2 disk0 : (128.04 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 127.04 GB (86.89 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB


HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N


USB Information:

Logitech USB Receiver


Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad


Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Kernel Extensions:

com.Logitech.Control Center.HID

com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver

com.avatron.AVExVideo (1.7)

com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer (1.7)

com.cisco.kext.acsock (1.1.0)

org.pqrs.driver.KeyRemap4MacBook (8.3.0)


Problem System Launch Daemons:


Problem System Launch Agents:


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.binaryage.asepsis.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] com.realvnc.vncserver.plist

[loaded] org.pqrs.KeyRemap4MacBook.load.plist


Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.binaryage.asepsis.updater.plist

[loaded] com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist

[loaded] com.realvnc.vncserver.peruser.plist

[not loaded] com.realvnc.vncserver.prelogin.plist

[loaded] org.pqrs.KeyRemap4MacBook.server.plist


User Launch Agents:


User Login Items:

UNKNOWN

Alfred 2

Dropbox

HyperDock Helper

Google Drive

DragThing

AirDisplayStatusItem

ScreenCapture


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Air Display Preferences

Flash Player

HyperDock

Logitech Control Center

Witch


Internet Plug-ins:

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:

Dashlane.plugin

WebEx64.plugin


Bad Fonts:

None


Top Processes by CPU:

3% WindowServer

2% Flowdock

2% EtreCheck

1% fontd

1% Google Chrome

1% mongod

0% FluidApp

0% DashlaneAgent

0% LCCDaemon

0% Finder


Top Processes by Memory:

270 MB FluidApp

131 MB Google Chrome

131 MB Sublime Text 2

131 MB Flowdock

115 MB mds

90 MB GitHub

90 MB WindowServer

74 MB Google Drive

74 MB Dropbox

66 MB Finder


Virtual Memory Statistics

4.09 GB Free RAM

2.41 GB Active RAM

202 MB Inactive RAM

1.29 GB Wired RAM

549 MB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs



Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 30, 2013 11:23 AM

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MacBook Pro - Single app starts freezing, then spreads to all apps/entire system.

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