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MacBook freezing

Hi s4z0r, any progress on this matter?

I have the same problem and always got a couple of freezes a day. Unfortunately the problem got worse yesterday and now I'm getting dozens of freezes and the notebook is near to useless... it's like every click ou key stroke result in 20-30 seconds hang...

Did you manage to solve this issue?

I'm also on a 2008 macbook (MAcbook5,1) with vertex 3 (2.15 FW) and latest Lion (1.7.2).

Thanks!
 
hey mhfs,

Nope, the problem still persists... Do you usually shutdown your MacBook? I've noticed that after a power cycle the freezes stop for some time... I think it's virtual memory related, because the freezes become more frequent when lots of RAM is being used....

Tell me something, do you also have an OptiBay caddy? Is your SSD on the original HDD bay?
 
Hi s4z0r, sorry to hear that.

I have 8Gb of RAM and the freezes happen to me even when I have Gb's of free memory. Not sure if it's memory related.

I was using the SSD in the original HDD bay. I just switched back to my old HDD because the notebook was completely useless. =/

Hopefully it's going to work well...

Do you guys have any knowledge on SSD models that work well with the 2008 macbook?

Cheers!
 
Hi mhfs, s4z0r - I've just found your discussion. I have the same problems: MacBookPro5,1 (mid 2008), Lion 10.7.2 (it was clean install, not an update) with additional RAM (8 GB) and OCZ-Vertex3 240GB (I wasn't enabling TRIM). I've just updated SSD's firmware to last 2.15 - I don't know if it helps - propably not as you have 2.15 too and it freezes. Mine is freezing a few times a day, mostly around sleep/wake. Any new ideas on that problem?

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sacul said:
Hi mhfs, s4z0r - I've just found your discussion. I have the same problems: MacBookPro5,1 (mid 2008), Lion 10.7.2 (it was clean install, not an update) with additional RAM (8 GB) and OCZ-Vertex3 240GB (I wasn't enabling TRIM). I've just updated SSD's firmware to last 2.15 - I don't know if it helps - propably not as you have 2.15 too and it freezes. Mine is freezing a few times a day, mostly around sleep/wake. Any new ideas on that problem?
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I have replaced original HDD with SSD (so it is not in CD bay). I also found out that after restart it works fine for some time very well (maybe a day), so it looks like some software related problem (I'm used to use sleep only for many days and not to turn it off nor restart if it is not necessary).
 
Not solved

So I signed up just to reply to this thread...

I have a DataDoubler caddy and an OCZ Agility 3, 120gb SSD in a Macbook Pro late 2008 unibody running 10.7.3 (Lion). I am experiencing the same issues. The problem is strangely intermittent. The problem started almost immediately after install, but this morning the beach balling/system hangs were so bad I had to boot back to my HDD for the day (and download 3000+ emails to get back to work :mad: ). A few hours later I contacted Amazon to get my return shipping label to get a refund for this OCZ drive. Oh and I'm writing this while booted from the SSD with no hangs, so its clearly intermittent.

The solution as offered by the previous poster, updating to a faster link speed is not the solution. I've done that, upgraded the firmware for the drive, enabled and disabled TRIM support via the TrimEnabler app, disabled disk sleep in energy settings, disabled Spotlight indexing, freed up 40% disk space, repaired the disk and file permissions in Disk Utility and done the same while booted from another disk.

I'm seeing many of the same errors, including lots of:
hidd: IOHIDEventQueueEnqueue: Error enqueuing memory. (e00002e8)

I've done WAY more research on this than I should need to, and so far the only consistency I have found with all users experiencing problems are the OCZ SSD drives.

As I said, I've given up on this drive and will be returning it. When it worked it was blazingly fast, but the issues I've experienced far outweigh the benefits.
 
I THINK I have a solution for you guys. Similiar thing happend to me for almost a year and it was SO frustrating!! It turned out being istatsmenu, had some issue with a problem a feature the vertex 3 didn't support. Try to get rid of it and see if you still have problems, if you have that installed
 
My core duo 2 macbook did the same thing but it happened much less often after I would pull out the memory sticks and then put them back in. Not sure if this makes a difference, however it seemed to on mine.:)
 
firmwareupdate

I had the same problem with my macbook2,1 late 08 but with my Crucial M4. Updated firmware from rev 2 to 4. Much cooler and no dropouts. Very happy. Also updated my link speed.
 
In case anyone else is puzzled by this...

I saw this:

kernel[0]: nfs server localhost:/YzIHP9dIeFLl09p9dyG93w: not responding

for the first time today on Mountain Lion 10.8.4. Looking in the system.log file I also noticed:

KernelEventAgent[78]: tid 00000000 type 'mtmfs', mounted on '/Volumes/MobileBackups', from 'localhost:/YzIHP9dIeFLl09p9dyG93w', dead
KernelEventAgent[78]: tid 00000000 force unmount localhost:/YzIHP9dIeFLl09p9dyG93w from /Volumes/MobileBackups
kernel[0]: nfs server localhost:/YzIHP9dIeFLl09p9dyG93w: dead

an "ls -l" on "/Volumes" hung for several tens of seconds but then the hang cleared and all that was shown in /Volumes were the expected items.

I suspect the problem has something to do with the way mobile backups are done and that 10.8.4 recovers by force-unmounting the unresponsive volume. Earlier versions of the OS may not recover as cleanly.

One way to make the OS access all the file inodes on your filestore is to do this from a terminal as the "root" user:

touch ~/sentinel; find / -newer ~/sentinel; rm ~/sentinel

That command will traverse the entire filestore and display the names of all files changed between the time the file "~/sentinel" was created and the time the "find" passed through that part of the filestore. In doing so it will also traverse any mounted file systems and, in the process, trigger the reported condition if a supposed-to-be-mounted filestore is not accessible.

Please make sure you don't have a file in your home directory, that you want to keep, called "sentinel" before you run this command, because if you do, you won't have once the command is done.

There are many ways to access all the files on a filestore to see if they are available, this is only one such way. It will not tell you if the file content is available, merely that all directory entries point to accessible files.

YMMV
 
sacul said:
Macbook ocz vertex ssd freezing solved!

THERE IS A SOLUTION!
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-of-3Gb-s-link&p=695128&viewfull=1#post695128
There is special OCZ live CD (ISO), burn it, boot and click MAC 1.5/3G or run binary file macspd.
It fixed not only link speed (1,5Gb->3,0Gb) but also freezing/beachball!
Here is direct link: https://rapidshare.com/files/892490026/OCZ_MAC.zip
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Ancient I know, but anyone still have the OCZ_MAC.iso file, all the links are dead now
 
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