System unstable

[antmangaka]

Hello again,

The system can run for hours doing anything but one in a while I get a random application freeze it can be any app.

Firefox, system profiler, textedit, console etc,

once one app freezes everything starts failing, i can't close any app cause it freezes them neither starting other apps.

Only solution is to hard restart otherwise it just hangs saying some processes are still running/valid, also I can't kill them using activity monitor (before restarting).

Anyone can point me where I can start looking?

thank you for your time.

Edit: Used TOP to check the running processes when it happens,
i see many stuck processes, one was launchd.

 

[antmangaka]

I think I found the offending process, MDS
It seems to be spotlight hanging the hackintosh, I excluded all non hfs drives, but it still hangs.

You guys have any tips?

ty for your time

 

[mikezila]

If you disable spotlight does it still happen? Do you get normal/fast HDD speeds? Give Xbench a whirl.

 

[nonagon]

I've started experiencing the exact same thing recently. The only significant thing that I changed since before the problem started was switching to the new 10.3.1 kernel, though I can't be sure if that's really what's causing this or not.

I'm booting the 64-bit kernel, FYI.

 

[dh22r]

maybe it's irrelevant ... but is overclocking a factor here?

 

[MacMan]

I've started experiencing the exact same thing recently. The only significant thing that I changed since before the problem started was switching to the new 10.3.1 kernel, though I can't be sure if that's really what's causing this or not.

I'm booting the 64-bit kernel, FYI.

You didn't need to upgrade to the 10.3.1 kernel, that kernel is for supporting CPUs that the 10.3.0 kernel doesn't.

 

[humara]

I've started experiencing the exact same thing recently. The only significant thing that I changed since before the problem started was switching to the new 10.3.1 kernel, though I can't be sure if that's really what's causing this or not.

I'm booting the 64-bit kernel, FYI.

well, you could easily determine this by changing back to your previous kernel and see if you're still having the problem

 

[antmangaka]

gave xbench a try got a result of : 174.04

Disabled a bunch of options in spotlight mainly mail, had over 5k, maybe that was crashing it..

I'll keep stressing the system to find out more


ty