I have two clients seeing regular delays in Entourage, typically lasting anywhere between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. Severity varies. Sometimes they can type, but only very slowly (i.e. press a key and five seconds later the character appears), but sometimes the entire machine just hangs and sits there. There¹s nothing else odd on either system, and the Entourage database is excluded from Spotlight indexing.
Cranking up Activity Monitor shows that windowserver¹s CPU usage seems amazingly high, hovering in the 20-30% range, spiking as high as 93%. I started poking around in the system logs, and in the windowserver log I found this line listed repeatedly in both cases. Times coincide with the delays the user is seeing: > CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Entourage" > for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them. I have zero idea what this means. Can someone help me translate this? Does this tell me anything about what¹s causing the problem, or is it just another symptom? Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Little Davidson College
