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After finding my MacBook Pro (2.66 Core Duo, 4GB RAM; 2009; OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)) stuck in sleep yesterday morning, I restarted it the hard way (button press), only to find out it would not reboot beyond a visual OS shell and desktop, but with the mouse stuck in the left upper corner, showing the watch icon.
Because recently there had been an increase in kernel panics (high time to change RAM perhaps), and I had just before sleeping updated a system monitor shell (Bjango's iStat Menus), I decided to restart in safe mode first.
I'm not sure what's really wrong, the main symptoms at the moment are:
- Safe Mode runs extremely slow (screen refresh for, say opening a menu seems about 1Hz). Normal startup does not even result in anything running except a visual for the desktop, and menu bar with incomplete icon arrangement. Mouse works.
- Simple operations (opening a finder window, starting Activity Monitor) make 'something' start eat free disc memory. Fast. On startup (safe mode): 45GB free, but after 'just' opening Activity Monitor (which took ~7 minutes to do) and flipping through tabs for monitor, activity and system memory, free disc memory had dropped to 27.7 GB. Before shutting the machine down again, I checked that the trash bin was still empty, as it was.
What's eating/leaking memory, and where can I free that claimed memory back? How can I find out, eg. using another Mac (I'm at work, using a desktop with same 10.6.8) and the problem child just in target mode?
Using target mode, I managed to free up HD memory by moving & deleting files, delete some old cache, do a (successful) disc repair so far. But the black hole eats that memory just as well..
While watching activity monitor, I penned down some numbers:
Disc Usage: SystemUIServer ~8%CPU 1.78GB used; other processes much less.
Disc Activity: reads in/sec: 29-785; reads out I forgot to write down because then I noticed: data written 16.3 GB and increasing pretty fast; data read 2.33GB, looking stable.
System Memory:
Free ~8MB; Wired 1.45GB; Active 1.69GB; Page ins 315.7MB; page outs 5.90GB Swap 17.80GB (Those last guys look suspicious to me).
Thanks for any help!
Because recently there had been an increase in kernel panics (high time to change RAM perhaps), and I had just before sleeping updated a system monitor shell (Bjango's iStat Menus), I decided to restart in safe mode first.
I'm not sure what's really wrong, the main symptoms at the moment are:
- Safe Mode runs extremely slow (screen refresh for, say opening a menu seems about 1Hz). Normal startup does not even result in anything running except a visual for the desktop, and menu bar with incomplete icon arrangement. Mouse works.
- Simple operations (opening a finder window, starting Activity Monitor) make 'something' start eat free disc memory. Fast. On startup (safe mode): 45GB free, but after 'just' opening Activity Monitor (which took ~7 minutes to do) and flipping through tabs for monitor, activity and system memory, free disc memory had dropped to 27.7 GB. Before shutting the machine down again, I checked that the trash bin was still empty, as it was.
What's eating/leaking memory, and where can I free that claimed memory back? How can I find out, eg. using another Mac (I'm at work, using a desktop with same 10.6.8) and the problem child just in target mode?
Using target mode, I managed to free up HD memory by moving & deleting files, delete some old cache, do a (successful) disc repair so far. But the black hole eats that memory just as well..
While watching activity monitor, I penned down some numbers:
Disc Usage: SystemUIServer ~8%CPU 1.78GB used; other processes much less.
Disc Activity: reads in/sec: 29-785; reads out I forgot to write down because then I noticed: data written 16.3 GB and increasing pretty fast; data read 2.33GB, looking stable.
System Memory:
Free ~8MB; Wired 1.45GB; Active 1.69GB; Page ins 315.7MB; page outs 5.90GB Swap 17.80GB (Those last guys look suspicious to me).
Thanks for any help!