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iBook Screen Freezing More on Swapfiles From Ira Lansing I too have experienced this phenomenon, and also for no apparent reason. And yes, I was doing seemingly innocuous tasks. The keyboard sequence for a force quit does not always work (nevertheless, try it), but surprisingly, sometimes the Dock is responsive and you can quit the application from there, or control-click on the Dock icon and you can force quit the application. On my QuickSilver Mac keyboard I do not have a power key, so my only option when all else fails is a hard power down followed by repair utilities. --Ira Lansing
Hi Ira;
How did you get the cursor to the Dock? In both cases on my iBook, the cursor would not respond to mouse or trackpad input.
Charles From Anthony Helm Charles, Eerie coincidence! After very faithful service for a year, this weekend my iBook, too, began experiencing the exact same behavior. It began when I noticed that it would wake up from sleep. Then, about 9 out of 10 times, I couldn't get the screen to come on while the machine booted (it booted successfully, I could tell from the whirring and the fact that I could shut it down properly). The screen just stayed black. When I did get the screen to come on, the Jaguar boot sundial gave a funny appearance, stopping from time to time. Then, once fully booted up, it would generally freeze as soon as I tried to open the hard disk. Hard freeze, no controls at all. I even tried booting with an external monitor connected, but to no avail--same behavior. I'm suspecting the last security update, but am at a loss otherwise.
Cheers,
Hi Anthony;
It can’t be that security update with me. I’m running OS X 10.2.3 on the iBook. I also on occasion fond the iBook non-responsive to external mouse or keyboard input upon waking from sleep. Sometimes unplugging/replugging the USB device(s) restores support, but usually a reboot is necessary. However, in those instances, the machine still responds to the built-in trackpad. In the screen freezes I referred to yesterday, it is completely unresponsive to pointing device input and required a force reboot.
Charles
From Anonymous Hi Charles, You ask: "What say you about the caveat that on a slow disk, you may lose as much speed to longer read head travel as you gain from more breathing space by moving the swap file(s) to another partition?" I don't have any mass-testing data at hand to present on the subject, but the key word in the above theory is 'may'. Yes, under some circumstances, you *may* experience such a problem, but, overall, I'd tell you that due in large part to the nature of OS X, and how rapidly and how badly it fragments its own partition, added to that my own considerable experience and customer feedback with both seat-of-the-pants and utility feedback (Memory Stick, Memory Monitor, Memory Usage Getter, et al), just putting VM on another partition, same disk or not, helps out stability and speed, both. I also know that every laptop owner, whose laptop I either reconfigure or convince them to do so on their own, who previously complained about degraded performance over time, even if they continually optimize the drive, universally rave about consistent (or at least dramatically improved) performance once they use a dedicated partition, or at least a partition other than the Startup Disk for swapfiles. On that note, here's an excerpt from a post by an iBook user whose performance was frustrating his work: "I run Photoshop 7.0.1 and use two Epson printers- an 1160 and a 960. I've noticed at times the printing gets real sluggish, worse when I am actually working on another file in PS while I'm printing [...] I did note that pageouts dramatically increased when printing and doing other things at the same time. I also have Cocktail, which I try to use every day [...] deleted caches [...] [then finally] installed SwapSwapVM. All went well, and I'm using one of my partitions that is about 3.5 GB. I printed some more, and noticed less strain and less pageouts( 1, to be exact). I've had one swapfile at peak usage for 76.3 mb, in the partition. I was getting 300 pageouts or more when trying to do the same thing I did today. At times it was over 11,000. Anyway, things seem to be smoother, and I'll keep an eye on the numbers." As I said, I can't offer you anything more than anecdotal evidence and the encouragement to just try it for yourself. I will add that if you can't afford to dedicate 1-4GB of disk space for a dedicated swap volume (which is also highly effective to use for double-duty with targeting Photoshop and Illustrator Scratch Disks), you should probably at least defrag the target volume first to give the swapfile a fair chance to write itself in a contiguous manner and thus prevent the massive disk thrashing issues. As I recall, your Pismo only has two partitions, so the above applies to you, except that I would also take this opportunity to gently remind you about FWB's Partition Toolkit, which will allow you to *cheaply* and *safely* repartition your single hard drive without the need to completely, backup, erase, repartition and restore your current install and data. This tool would be a Godsend in the case of your iBook, saving you potentially hours of data swapping or, worse, a complete erase and reinstallation of OS and apps from scratch. FWIW, I have never felt the need to run Cocktail, MacJanitor or any of the "cleanup" utilities out there. My Macs feel just as snappy on day twenty of uptime as they do on minute one, even after using such utilities. Any sluggishness I start to feel in an application (Finder, Safari, Photoshop, Entourage) is quickly reversed by either quitting and restarting the offending app, or, at worst, a quick logout/login. Though I do occasionally use DiskWarrior for a routine checkup, and I do routinely (about once a month) optimize (not just defrag) my disks, I really give most of the credit to my success to using a partitioned setup, be it one drive on my PowerBook or multiple drives on my desktops. YMMV.
Cheers
Hi Anon,;
I’ll have to try the SwapSwapVM solution on the Pismo, which actually has four partitions, one of which has more than 2.5 GB free (the one next door to my OS X partition). I just defragged and optimized my partitions before I switched to using the iBook for production last week, so it should be clear sailing there.
Incidentally, the iBook has been up for three days since the last reboot, and there are now four swapfiles created, although haven’t been noticing a slowdown pageouts, but I’m sure getting them, to the tune of:“30069(0) pageins, 27907(0) pageouts” upon running the top command a moment ago.
There is 3.9 GB free on the OS X partition, and I have the RAM maxed out at 640 MB.
Charles
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