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From: TaliesinSoft on 3 Apr 2010 10:52
Since upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I've been experiencing what I've
dubbed "instabilities".

On a number of occasions the system completely freezes and quite often
when this happens the screen goes completely black. The only option
seems to be a hard restart.

Frequently I will see visual oddities such as flashing on parts of the
screen or distorted images.

I'm curious as to if others are experiencing the same.

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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: Jolly Roger on 3 Apr 2010 11:10
In article <81p319FkhU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> Since upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I've been experiencing what I've
> dubbed "instabilities".
>
> On a number of occasions the system completely freezes and quite often
> when this happens the screen goes completely black. The only option
> seems to be a hard restart.
>
> Frequently I will see visual oddities such as flashing on parts of the
> screen or distorted images.
>
> I'm curious as to if others are experiencing the same.

Hmm, that's unfortunate. Nothing of the sort is happening here on my Mac
Pro.

Have you taken a gander at the system log?

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From: Paul Fuchs on 3 Apr 2010 11:36
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> Since upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I've been experiencing what I've
> dubbed "instabilities".
>
> On a number of occasions the system completely freezes and quite often
> when this happens the screen goes completely black. The only option
> seems to be a hard restart.
>
> Frequently I will see visual oddities such as flashing on parts of the
> screen or distorted images.
>
> I'm curious as to if others are experiencing the same.

I have been occasionally getting the beach ball of death in Safari which
takes over a minute to clear. Have a newer MacBook with maxed out RAM.
I have to restart when this starts happening. Didn't happen in 10.6.2.
I would guess that it is some sort of memory leak but I am no expert, to
say the least, in OS X. Haven't added any new software since I moved up
to 10.6.3.

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becomes a revolutionary act.
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From: Lloyd Parsons on 3 Apr 2010 11:39
In article <81p319FkhU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> Since upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I've been experiencing what I've
> dubbed "instabilities".
>
> On a number of occasions the system completely freezes and quite often
> when this happens the screen goes completely black. The only option
> seems to be a hard restart.
>
> Frequently I will see visual oddities such as flashing on parts of the
> screen or distorted images.
>
> I'm curious as to if others are experiencing the same.

I'm not having any issues with 10.6.3 at all.

Try creating another user and using it for awhile with that user to see
if it is something in your user stuff causing that.

If it still does it, sounds like maybe a ram issue or some such.

--
Lloyd


From: Jolly Roger on 3 Apr 2010 11:51
In article <1jgdbyr.2d97m91xkau16N%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> I have been occasionally getting the beach ball of death in Safari which
> takes over a minute to clear. Have a newer MacBook with maxed out RAM.
> I have to restart when this starts happening. Didn't happen in 10.6.2.
> I would guess that it is some sort of memory leak but I am no expert, to
> say the least, in OS X. Haven't added any new software since I moved up
> to 10.6.3.

My wife complained yesterday that Safari has been locking up excessively
lately on her MacBook Pro. So I took a look at her system log and found
tons of these messages in it:

Apr 2 03:34:21 macbookpro Safari[16210]: Periodic CFURLCache Insert
stats (iters: 360) - Tx time:0.063071, # of Inserts: 3, # of bytes
written: 55254, Did shrink: NO, Size of cache-file: 182552576, Num of
Failures: 1
Apr 2 03:41:00 macbookpro Safari[16210]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx
time:3.638909, # of Inserts: 2, # of bytes written: 37202, Did shrink:
YES

A Google search later, and I arrived at the following page that
describes how to fix the problem. After deleting the cache files
mentioned on that page, Safari has been running much better so far:

<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091113081849404>

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