Re: Leopard on my iMac
I think I have found (at least one) culprit. Looking in the CrashReporter log, Process: DashboardClient [1171] ... Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0003ffc0 Crashed Thread: 0 Plus whenever I start Dashboard it triggers the whole speed dump problem. Also Bruce I think it needs RAM as well. With Safari and Firefox open with 4 tabs, mail open, and textedit, I am down to 18 MB of free RAM! So besides some more RAM what could be wrong w/ Dashboard? Thanks alot, Dan On Apr 11, 9:21 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Dan Ziegler d.ziegle...@gmail.com wrote: A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. That's possible - but the iMac is all stock HW - Apple kybd. and mouse, and no upgrades or other USB devices. Perhaps some other (internal) HW? What do you suggest I check? The USB device in my case was the hub in an Apple Display. The system log was full of USB errors. -- Bruce -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Dan Ziegler wrote: I think I have found (at least one) culprit. Looking in the CrashReporter log, Process: DashboardClient [1171] ... Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0003ffc0 Crashed Thread: 0 Plus whenever I start Dashboard it triggers the whole speed dump problem. Also Bruce I think it needs RAM as well. With Safari and Firefox open with 4 tabs, mail open, and textedit, I am down to 18 MB of free RAM! So besides some more RAM what could be wrong w/ Dashboard? It might just be the low RAM available causing this, but what I'd do is start by deleting all the active dashboard widgets, then re-adding them one at a time. If you can't even start dashboard to do this, delete the file Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist then in a terminal window type: killall dock to force the Dock to quit and restart. Then add the widgets you use back in one at a time until it breaks. then you found the offending one. If you don't use the Dashboard at all, you can follow the directions here to stop it from running: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050723123302403 -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Leopard on my iMac
Hi there, I have been having some intermittent problems lately with my family's iMac. About half the time you are using it, all the applications (Safari, the dock, the Finder, Firefox, Textedit, DVD Player) slow down to an abysmal crawl. Then about 45 minutes later it will function perfectly fine. This goes on at about 45 minute periods one way or another. This is a really bad slowdown - I was playing a DVD the other night, and it was skipping many seconds of video and audio intermittently. I don't have any idea what could be going on-there's not really anything out of the ordinary on this computer. The specs of the machine if it helps: April 2008 iMac Penryn 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 250 GB Disk (about 1/2 full) Leopard 10.5.8 w/all latest updates Thanks alot, Dan Ziegler -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: April 2008 iMac Penryn 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 Ding Ding Ding! Right there is part of your problem, most likely. 1GB RAM is far too low. I'd kick that to 4 at least. http://www.datamemorysystems.com/_apple_info/Apple_Aluminum_Intel_Core_2_Duo_iMac_24_2.4GHz_Memory_1468.asp Also if it is right at 45 minute intervals, something's happening every 45 minutes to cause this problem. On my old RAM-starved Core Duo iMac, Time Machine would do this, particularly if I was brave enough to be running a Windows VM. I'll wager that kicking up the RAM to a reasonable amount will help. Also, upgrade that system posthaste to 10.6, that makes Intel systems run a lot better. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
Well the RAM amount is possible, I know it needs more... but it has worked great for 1.5 years until about 2 weeks ago this started. (And will Dad want to spend $70, hmm...) This is really really really slow - I'm talking slower than my old Sawtooth, 10.4.11 with 384 MB! Maybe the install is old with age? I'd hate to have to do a clean install. Plus 10.6 doesn't work with some of our software, so... Other than those, anything else that could be bogging me down? Thanks, Dan On Apr 11, 1:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: April 2008 iMac Penryn 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 Ding Ding Ding! Right there is part of your problem, most likely. 1GB RAM is far too low. I'd kick that to 4 at least. http://www.datamemorysystems.com/_apple_info/Apple_Aluminum_Intel_Cor... Also if it is right at 45 minute intervals, something's happening every 45 minutes to cause this problem. On my old RAM-starved Core Duo iMac, Time Machine would do this, particularly if I was brave enough to be running a Windows VM. I'll wager that kicking up the RAM to a reasonable amount will help. Also, upgrade that system posthaste to 10.6, that makes Intel systems run a lot better. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: Well the RAM amount is possible, I know it needs more... but it has worked great for 1.5 years until about 2 weeks ago this started. (And will Dad want to spend $70, hmm...) This is really really really slow - I'm talking slower than my old Sawtooth, 10.4.11 with 384 MB! Maybe the install is old with age? I'd hate to have to do a clean install. No that won't be it. The OS doesn't 'age'. $70 would be a well-spent upgrade. Look in the System log at the time it starts slowing down, see if you have errors being reported. (use the Console app in Utilities) A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
At 12:13 -0700 4/11/11, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: Well the RAM amount is possible, I know it needs more... but it has worked great for 1.5 years until about 2 weeks ago this started. (And will Dad want to spend $70, hmm...) This is really really really slow - I'm talking slower than my old Sawtooth, 10.4.11 with 384 MB! Maybe the install is old with age? I'd hate to have to do a clean install. No that won't be it. The OS doesn't 'age'. $70 would be a well-spent upgrade. Look in the System log at the time it starts slowing down, see if you have errors being reported. (use the Console app in Utilities) A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. Utilities/Activity\ Monitor might be useful. You can leave it running and watch when a slowdown occurs. Be sure your periodic updates are getting run regularly. That's the 3AM thing that you can execute using sudo from a Terminal.app session any time. -- -- From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
On Apr 11, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: Well the RAM amount is possible, I know it needs more... but it has worked great for 1.5 years until about 2 weeks ago this started. (And will Dad want to spend $70, hmm...) This is really really really slow - I'm talking slower than my old Sawtooth, 10.4.11 with 384 MB! Maybe the install is old with age? I'd hate to have to do a clean install. No that won't be it. The OS doesn't 'age'. $70 would be a well-spent upgrade. Look in the System log at the time it starts slowing down, see if you have errors being reported. (use the Console app in Utilities) A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. That stirs a memory. I was having a big slow down on my MBP. I finally fixed it by running Disk Repair which fixed a bad directory or something such. I don't know why but something would hit that bad directory and sit there twiddling it's thumbs retrying. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Leopard on my iMac
On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Dan Ziegler d.ziegle...@gmail.com wrote: A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. That's possible - but the iMac is all stock HW - Apple kybd. and mouse, and no upgrades or other USB devices. Perhaps some other (internal) HW? What do you suggest I check? The USB device in my case was the hub in an Apple Display. The system log was full of USB errors. -- Bruce -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
