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OS X crashed on my MBP
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I have been using OS X now since inception and today it crashed for the first time on my MBP. No kernel panic just a hard lockup.
I had to reboot and then was prompted to send a crash report to Apple (shades of XP).
Very interesting.
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check your hard drive using disk util.
it might be failing.
but, then again, i could just be a rare, once-in-a-couple-of-years kind of thing. i have been using OS X for 4 months and it hasnt froze once. Also, im using a PowerMac G4!
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I've had OSX lock up on my old 17" G4 iMac many, many times. We're not impervious to this sort of thing, it is still a computer and computers do lock up.
All I can say is that I have fewer issues like this on my Mac than on any PC I've ever worked with--and by fewer, I mean fewer by an entire order of magnitude.
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Happens frequently here. Ti867 OS 10.4.6. Always in combination with Azureus. I did a clean install once and the problem went away for a while but it's back now. There is huge thread somewhere on MacNN that talks about sudden full lock ups.
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So Tiger automatically prompts you to send in a report after a crash now? That's a good idea.
I wasn't aware of this feature because it's been quite a while since the last time my iMac crashed.
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Originally Posted by Goldfinger
Happens frequently here. Ti867 OS 10.4.6. Always in combination with Azureus. I did a clean install once and the problem went away for a while but it's back now. There is huge thread somewhere on MacNN that talks about sudden full lock ups.
Java Bittorrent clients eat your memory and cause the computer to lock up. It happens on all platforms.
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Originally Posted by goMac
Java Bittorrent clients eat your memory and cause the computer to lock up. It happens on all platforms.
Erm, no.
I've never heard of Windows flat-out locking up because memory was used up. It's called swap space.
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Originally Posted by Tomchu
Erm, no.
I've never heard of Windows flat-out locking up because memory was used up. It's called swap space.
And Java doesn't have manual memory management. OS X doesn't take to kindly to big swap files and lots of RAM being eaten.
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Hard freezes and/or KPs should be very rare. If you're experiencing a lot of them, there's something wrong with your machine.
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Originally Posted by goMac
And Java doesn't have manual memory management. OS X doesn't take to kindly to big swap files and lots of RAM being eaten.
That's pretty poor of OS X then.
I don't see what Java's garbage collection has to do with any of this though.
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Originally Posted by Tomchu
That's pretty poor of OS X then.
Yeah, but I doubt RAM is the reason for his lockup. When the virtual memory swap files start to fill up the hard disk in OS X, it pops up a dialog box warning you about it and telling you to free up some RAM by quitting some applications, etc. If running out of RAM was the cause of his problems, he should have seen that box first.
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