> On 22 Jan 2015, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> >> change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then >> all is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection). >> firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns for 5-10 >> seconds before resuming >> >> Thinking this may be a DNS issue I ran wireshark. wiresharks stops while >> wheel is turning! >> >> system-monitor shows no (just got the wheel for 5 secs, no response to >> usb-keyboard nothing interesting on system-monitor) sys-monitor (pause >> again!) ticks every 5 secs even during wheel turning. >> > > What do you see in the system.log when (or after...) one of those "wheelies"? > Do you have power napping and what have you active? > > Did you use a 10.10 public beta and upgrade to the release version without > doing a clean install? > > I *hate* the app nap and sudden termination features that were introduced in > 10.9 (it appears they actually experimented with app nap based on > SIGSTOP/SIGCONT ...), and am not really glad with the memory compression > features either. There's a defaults command to turn off app nap which I'd > advise for anyone rarely if ever running off a battery, but I have no idea > about tweaking that memory compression thing. And that's almost certainly > bound to slow down operation in a more continuous fashion than traditional > swap.
I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not make that his first port of call (beatifully synced) Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error. Thanks everybody, and sorry for being an idiot James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
