maniacriot Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 My computer freezes when using Youtube or downloading files with Bittorrent. It totally freezes, i have to push the Reset Button. Surfing and Mail work normally, no problems since install. I´m using 10.5.5 on a Machine with Gigabyte ep45-ud3r(Network Realtek 8111c) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 How much memory are you using? If you are using 4GB or more that may be the problem. If so try using the boot-flag maxmem=2024 on boot to limit the amount of memory OSX uses to 2GB. If this fixes the problem then check this link out for a possible fix. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=127611 If for some reason a fix is not available you can add the maxmem flag to your com.apple.boot.plist file and it will automatically apply the flag on startup. (before I found a fix I had mine set at 3.5GB and could not make it crash but others have reported problems past 3GB) How is the rest of the machine going? Is Quartz Extreme enabled on your graphics card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1000323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniacriot Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Rest of the machine works almost fine(onboard-sound is not perfect, but i can listen to sound; speedstep doesn't work, but i dont really need it), its very fast and i had no crashes since 2 weeks, only with torrents and youtube, so i think its a network problem - to much traffic - freeze. Graphiccard works fine, 9800gt installed with efi-string, QE/CI supported. I use 4gb of ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I was a bit baffled by my issue as I didn't think that downloading torrents with transmission would be related to a memory problem. I opened Activity Monitor/System Memory tab and started up my torrents. I watch the memory usage and noticed that It would slowly start filling available memory. The system would consistently freeze when I passed 3.6GB. I then opened a large document in photoshop and did some heavy work with it and was able to replicate the freeze. If you have not tried maxmem on boot then it is worth a try. Then you can at least narrow it down a bit more. I am aware of freezes related to LAN kexts mostly in nForce boards seemed like 1 out of 10 of the people having your symtoms had these issues as the rest were due to memory. You might want to remove your audio kexts and try this post. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry624736 Here is a link to the realtek installer listed in the post: http://www.necnet.de/krass.man/Installers/...0Installer.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniacriot Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Now i removed a kext named AppleRTL8169Ethernet and installed the driver you gave me the link for, it seems to work, im downloading and watching videos at the moment. I dont believe its the memory in this specific case, cause it also happened after reseting my machine and watching the first video, without downloading anything, but i will watch my memory, maybe i have this error too(my memory-usage does grow slowly when downloading, but at the speed its growing now, i would have to download for a long time to reach 3.5gb or more. Im using a Intel P45 based board, other users report it to run nearly otb, Gigabyte ep45-ud3r, its the ultra-durable version of the often recommended ep-45-ds3r, no difference in chips used as i know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Well keep us posted as to if it stays stable for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniacriot Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 At the moment it seems to be stable, downloading since over an hour now and watched some videos, but my Memoryusage keeps growing slowly, at Startup it was ~760MB, now its 1,22GB, mostly the section Inactive grows, Wired and Active also grows, but more slowly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 You could try opening open all of the programs in your app folder to stress test. I did that and still had a hard time pushing memory usage past 3.5GB I found resizing an image to enormous sizes and applying filters to them in photoshop did the trick. That and compiling some video clips in Premiere or FCP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1001480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniacriot Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Dont have enough programms installed to try this, its a test install, but i will try then. Now its working stable with the new driver, but its not perfect, just awaked my hackintosh from sleep and have no lan, but this worked with the old driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141173-freezes-with-torrents-and-youtubemy/#findComment-1003690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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