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I'm investigating a link between using a Falcon SSD in my Macbook/Pro and the iStat Pro dashboard widget that causes random freeze on my machine.
System specs:
Storage Subsystem:
Application in question:
iStat Pro 4.9
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
OS:
MacOS X Leopard 10.5.8
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I have been facing freezing issues every 5-6 hours of use, with no major system load. Occurrence of the freeze seemed random, but it always starts with a single application freezing, resulting in the 'beachball' cursor, and eventually every application that I've clicked on would end up freezing after a second or two. The only way to get out of this is by forcing the system to shutdown by holding the power button.
Another observation would be the system would still respond to key presses of the F1/F2 brightness keys command and when I close the display lid, the system would try to sleep (display off) but would not completely enter sleep mode. It does however gets noted in the console.log after a forced restart where it states a system sleep is initiated by shutting the display lid.
The freezing happened on both my original mirrored copy of the OS and a fresh-reinstallation.
I've read up on the OCZ forums where certain users are having issues with system freeze due to the same program. I would suspect it is the built-in SMART reporting feature that somehow triggers the Falcon drive to stop responding.
At this stage, I am 3 hours into the testing phase, with the disabling of the iStat Pro SMART reporting feature.
Fingers crossed that it would be the end of the random freezing issues.
P/S: Is anyone having the same or similar freezing issues?
System specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro (Late-2008 Unibody 15")
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.0074.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.33f8
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.0074.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.33f8
NVidia MCP79 AHCI:
Vendor: NVidia
Product: MCP79 AHCI
Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported
G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD:
Capacity: 119.24 GB
Model: G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD
Revision: 1571
Vendor: NVidia
Product: MCP79 AHCI
Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported
G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD:
Capacity: 119.24 GB
Model: G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD
Revision: 1571
iStat Pro 4.9
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
OS:
MacOS X Leopard 10.5.8
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I have been facing freezing issues every 5-6 hours of use, with no major system load. Occurrence of the freeze seemed random, but it always starts with a single application freezing, resulting in the 'beachball' cursor, and eventually every application that I've clicked on would end up freezing after a second or two. The only way to get out of this is by forcing the system to shutdown by holding the power button.
Another observation would be the system would still respond to key presses of the F1/F2 brightness keys command and when I close the display lid, the system would try to sleep (display off) but would not completely enter sleep mode. It does however gets noted in the console.log after a forced restart where it states a system sleep is initiated by shutting the display lid.
The freezing happened on both my original mirrored copy of the OS and a fresh-reinstallation.
I've read up on the OCZ forums where certain users are having issues with system freeze due to the same program. I would suspect it is the built-in SMART reporting feature that somehow triggers the Falcon drive to stop responding.
At this stage, I am 3 hours into the testing phase, with the disabling of the iStat Pro SMART reporting feature.
Fingers crossed that it would be the end of the random freezing issues.
P/S: Is anyone having the same or similar freezing issues?
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