Re: Diagnosing a sporadically non-responsive Mac?
Re: Diagnosing a sporadically non-responsive Mac?
- Subject: Re: Diagnosing a sporadically non-responsive Mac?
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:24:55 -0700
On May 7, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
Hi,
I have a Mac that I use that has started to sporadically not
respond. What I mean by that is that it can be running for a day or
so and then quit accepting network requests or will accept a mouse
click to launch an application on the dock, but the application will
bounce for ever.
Is there anything I could install that could help me diagnose the
issue? Maybe something that will get triggered on a CPU spike or
something of the sort.
Your Mac already comes with quite a good collection of tools that
might be useful here. One trick to try: add "Activity Monitor" to
your log in items (hidden). When things to sour, maybe you'll be able
to cmd-tab it to the front and learn something useful. For example,
if some application is consuming all the CPU, you can see who it is --
and also, you can "sample" it, which may help the program's author
find and fix the problem.
-==-
Jack Repenning
email@hidden
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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