[Andrej]

This is a fairly recent clean install of the operating system, no Safari haxies... I just updated to 10.5.6, ran weekly cron scripts, even did the whole Safari reset thing in the File menu, restarted my browser, my computer, even my laundry... the problem just isn't going away. This never happened with any of my previous installs of OS X. I downloaded (and upgraded to) Mac OS X 10.5.6 from the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard CD using Apple's own Combo updater. This is Safari 3.2.1 on an iMac G5 PPC, 1.25 GM RAM, 40 GB leftover HD space.

Basically, if I let Safari sit on any webpage, it doesn't need to have flash, and it doesn't even have to be Apple's own livepage that Apple's used as the default home page since OS 8. If I let Safari sit for anywhere between like 0.5-1.5 minutes on any of these webpages, then it starts eating up my CPU, goes to like 60 if I hit Command-Q on Safari, I get the spinning spectrum icon, and my CPU uses go even higher still (nearer 100%). So, I have to Force Quit in order to get out. (In comparison, Safari normally uses 0-1 % when idle.)

Why is it doing this, even (and only) after this clean install????


I have a really long thing of "Problem Report for Safari" that I'm supposed to send to Apple, but it's so long that I'm afraid to post it in here.

[Andrej]

[1 week later]


Guys, seriously, help me out here. I'm totally out of ideas, I mean, fresh OS, didn't have this problem ever before, did the Reset Safari thingy, went to Apple's website, re-downloaded and re-installed Safari 3.2.1 for Leopard... Safari still goes haywire when sitting idle for a minute. I give up, what's going on? What else is there for me to troubleshoot?

[Chuckit]

When you say fresh OS, do you mean literally a clean install, or is this with your same user folder?

[cgc]

Try Firefox and see if it has the same issues with that same webpage.

[Andrej]

Firefox has no such issues. I use Firefox as my first choice browser, Safari as my second (or when I need a flash video file).

I did an "Erase and Install," brought back my fonts, a few apps, a few preferences (none of them from Safari), my documents folder (no Safari data, I started fresh), and my Firefox folder.

[Andrej]

Alright, this makes no sense.

I upgraded to Safari 4 to see if that would fix the problem.

Well, it did, but only for about a week. Now the problem is back.

What is the cause? I'm going nuts trying to search for answers and nothing's permanently solving the problem.

Either that, or Safari now just takes like 20 seconds to quit when on Flash pages.

[fisherKing]

hard to tell from here...
update flash?
just use firefox??

[TETENAL]

Open Activity Viewer and select Safari. As soon as it starts hanging press the Sample button. Post the sample log.

[JKT]

Edit: I was writing post before TETENAL submitted his, so sorry for the duplication of advice!

Run a sample on the Safari process when this happens and post the results here - it might give some pointers as to what is happening:

1. Launch Activity Monitor in your /Applications/Utilities folder (do this before you start Safari and just leave it ticking away in the background until you need it).

2. Once you notice CPU usage ramping up, go back to Activity Monitor and sort the columns by CPU usage (click the CPU heading), then identify the process(es) using all the CPU.

3. Assuming it is Safari, click the name in the list to highlight it.

4. Go to the View menu and select Sample Process from the listed options (or press command-option-S). After about 10 to 15s, a sample report will be generated for your selected process.

5. Post the sample report here between [ code ] and [ / code ] tags.

Note, if you find yourself needing to do this at any other time on a relatively regular occurrence you can add a Sample button to the toolbar of Activity Monitor by selecting Customise Toolbar... from the View menu.

[Andrej]

Alright folks, well here is the output of the Sample from Safari 4:



Sampling process 152 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
2009-04-24 19:45:10.363 sample[163:1103] Symbolication warning: fde.addrRange.location 0xa0bfc0a0 isn't in the the __TEXT segment [0x9738a000 - 0x00002000)
2009-04-24 19:45:10.376 sample[163:1103] Symbolication warning: fde.addrRange.location 0xa0bfc0a4 isn't in the the __TEXT segment [0x9738a000 - 0x00002000)
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Exited process (pid 152) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
15 Thread_2803
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
15 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)

[note: It just keeps doing this same thing with the text ever still more indented, the indents will not display in vBulletin]

and then finally these:
15 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
15 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
15 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
15 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
15 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
15 mach_msg_trap
15 Thread_2f03
15 __semwait_signal
15 __semwait_signal

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
2018 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
508 WTF::waitForThreadCompletion(unsigned int, void**)
508 __CFSocketManager

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
__semwait_signal 45
mach_msg_trap 45
pread$UNIX2003 15
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 15
Sample analysis of process 152 written to file /dev/stdout















All right folks, so what does all of this mean?

[JKT]

Never mind... Just being an idiot (original post deleted).

[dirt farmer]

Just curious, what happens if you uncheck the "warn when visiting a fraudulent website" box? It's located under Safari Preferences, under the "security" tab.

Does it still do this?

[Andrej]

So far, no problems per settings change, but that's not to say that they've been eliminated. If they pop back up again, then I'll update.