In the Console under /var/log/windowserver.log Right about the same time as the hang. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
B On 2/21/07 9:45 PM, "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, List -- On 02/20/07 12:16 AM, Brian Little (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > wrote: > >> 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. >> > I have seen this exact same problem for quite some time (there was a thread > here on the subject several months ago, with quite a few people confirming > that they also experienced it) and, like you, excluding Entourage from > Spotlight made no difference. I also tried the new identity route, but it is > hard to tell if that corrected it or not, because it appears so > sporadically, sometimes several times in a week and sometimes 2 weeks with > no problem at all. The odd thing is that only Entourage freezes, and it > freezes completely -- you can't close the window, you can't switch folders, > you can't initiate a new message, mail downloads stop, etc. etc.. All other > apps, however, are just fine. Further, while nothing is visibly moving in > Entourage when this happens, if I am in the middle of typing a message when > it freezes, I can keep on typing to my heart's content and, although nothing > appears on screen at the time, when Entourage eventually does come back to > life (as you say, anywhere from 30 sec. to a 3 minutes later), all of that > "invisible" text appears in rapid-fire succession. > >> 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? > > Where exactly did you find the above?? I just had a freeze event about 30 > min. ago, so if I can also find the same log entry, it might help the > experts here to finally identify the cause. > > Cheers, > George > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
