 Black_MageMy backup spell is WarpPremium
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1 edit | [OS X] What happened? 21" 2011 iMac
12 Gigs RAM
Mountain Lion
I starting using my mac which had an uptime of over 40 days, I thought this wasn't an issue for Macs, and I had both Safari and Firefox open in different spaces with multiple tabs as well as BOINC running in the background. I just typed a message when I pressed the submit button to reply to a topic on one of the forums I visit when I got the beach ball. I think nothing of it at first but then I notice it's not just the browser that locked up. I can't use mission control, switch spaces, or really do anything. Even command + option + esc didn't work. The only thing I could do to recover is press and hold the power button down and turn the Mac on again. Any idea what happened here? |
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 not quite rightI'm not cool enough to be a Mac person
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kudos:1 | I'm sure only having "12 Megs" of RAM had something to do with it ... 
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 dellsweigExtreme AerobaticsPremium,MVM
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Campbell Hall, NY
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said by Black_Mage:21" 2011 iMac
12 Megs RAM
Mountain Lion
I starting using my mac which had an uptime of over 40 days, I thought this wasn't an issue for Macs, and I had both Safari and Firefox open in different spaces with multiple tabs as well as BOINC running in the background. I just typed a message when I pressed the submit button to reply to a topic on one of the forums I visit when I got the beach ball. I think nothing of it at first but then I notice it's not just the browser that locked up. I can't use mission control, switch spaces, or really do anything. Even command + option + esc didn't work. The only thing I could do to recover is press and hold the power button down and turn the Mac on again. Any idea what happened here?
Take a look at your BOINC settings - idle time, cpu (numbers, percents, etc), GPU, etc , etc
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Black_MageMy backup spell is WarpPremium
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said by not quite right:I'm sure only having "12 Megs" of RAM had something to do with it ...
LOL! Oh geeze. |
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 BloodRosesAeolus, your daughter flies.Premium
join:2003-03-17
Louisville, KY | reply to Black_Mage
Crash different. |
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I'm sure you might have a FEW pageouts to Disk......after 40 days...even with so much RAM!!! |
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Safari still has a memory leak. That would eat up your RAM over 40 days.
How much free space on your drive? |
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Black_MageMy backup spell is WarpPremium
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192 gigs. |
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