My G5 regularly locks up every day (only the mouse moves - all
applications stop responding.) It usually happens when I am running
Thoth, Toast and iMovie. The only thing Im really using it for right
now is importing video to iMovie, then burning a dvd with Toast. It
usually locks up while exporting from iMovie or while Toast is burning
a dvd.

The last crash happened at 17:11 and here is the latest crash log:

Aug 8 15:40:04 cuths-Computer kernel: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
Aug 8 15:40:04 cuths-Computer kernel: FWOHCI:
handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
Aug 8 15:40:04 cuths-Computer last message repeated 87 times
Aug 8 15:40:11 cuths-Computer diskarbitrationd[85]: disk1s3 hfs
542E0465-E1A9-3439-B16C-7369BFF6C5B4 cuth¹s iPod
/Volumes/cuth¹s iPod
Aug 8 17:27:43 localhost syslogd: restart


Im running 10.3.4 with 512 MB factory ram.

Here's vm_stat:

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free: 1863.
Pages active: 54874.
Pages inactive: 59845.
Pages wired down: 14490.
"Translation faults": 1344989.
Pages copy-on-write: 77928.
Pages zero filled: 530402.
Pages reactivated: 56391.
Pageins: 30570.
Pageouts: 2345.
Object cache: 16076 hits of 20063 lookups (80% hit rate)

And here's top:

Processes: 54 total, 2 running, 52 sleeping... 159 threads
18:16:44
Load Avg: 0.25, 0.38, 0.77 CPU usage: 2.2% user, 6.6% sys, 91.2%
idle
SharedLibs: num = 115, resident = 26.5M code, 2.51M data, 7.49M
LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 5031, resident = 69.1M + 14.1M private, 71.7M shared
PhysMem: 56.9M wired, 220M active, 219M inactive, 496M used, 15.3M
free
VM: 5.21G + 81.1M 30850(0) pageins, 2371(0) pageouts

Thanks.

--
cuthbert

In article <080820041825187408%cuthbert@xemaps.com>,
cuthbert <cuthbert@xemaps.com> wrote:

> My G5 regularly locks up every day (only the mouse moves - all
> applications stop responding.) It usually happens when I am running
> Thoth, Toast and iMovie. The only thing Im really using it for right
> now is importing video to iMovie, then burning a dvd with Toast. It
> usually locks up while exporting from iMovie or while Toast is burning
> a dvd.

You can go to <http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=1649_0_1_0> and
see if this application, which is designed to let you know if you need
more ram, is the right one for you.

In article <harukaba-62DD36.13323012082004@news6.west.earthlink.net>,
Erica Marceau <harukaba@earthlink.net> wrote:

> In article <080820041825187408%cuthbert@xemaps.com>,
> cuthbert <cuthbert@xemaps.com> wrote:
>
> > My G5 regularly locks up every day (only the mouse moves - all
> > applications stop responding.) It usually happens when I am running
> > Thoth, Toast and iMovie. The only thing Im really using it for right
> > now is importing video to iMovie, then burning a dvd with Toast. It
> > usually locks up while exporting from iMovie or while Toast is burning
> > a dvd.
>
> You can go to <http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=1649_0_1_0> and
> see if this application, which is designed to let you know if you need
> more ram, is the right one for you.


Thanks Erica - I did check this out and after awhile I do see my system
start to page out to disk. Maybe I will put another 512 mb of RAM in.

I continue to have crashes frequently - sometimes 3x a day. They are
all the same, only the mouse arrow will move. I cant alt-tab to any
other application. I read on one of the mac boards to try holding down
command +shift + q - this is supposed to let me re-login from a gui
crash but that hasnt worked either.

Thanks for the help.

--
cuthbert

In article <180820040802384938%cuthbert@xemaps.com>,
cuthbert <cuthbert@xemaps.com> wrote:

> In article <harukaba-62DD36.13323012082004@news6.west.earthlink.net>,
> Erica Marceau <harukaba@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <080820041825187408%cuthbert@xemaps.com>,
> > cuthbert <cuthbert@xemaps.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My G5 regularly locks up every day (only the mouse moves - all
> > > applications stop responding.) It usually happens when I am running
> > > Thoth, Toast and iMovie. The only thing Im really using it for right
> > > now is importing video to iMovie, then burning a dvd with Toast. It
> > > usually locks up while exporting from iMovie or while Toast is burning
> > > a dvd.
> >
> > You can go to <http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=1649_0_1_0> and
> > see if this application, which is designed to let you know if you need
> > more ram, is the right one for you.
>
>
> Thanks Erica - I did check this out and after awhile I do see my system
> start to page out to disk. Maybe I will put another 512 mb of RAM in.
>
> I continue to have crashes frequently - sometimes 3x a day. They are
> all the same, only the mouse arrow will move. I cant alt-tab to any
> other application. I read on one of the mac boards to try holding down
> command +shift + q - this is supposed to let me re-login from a gui
> crash but that hasnt worked either.
>
> Thanks for the help.

I used to have that sort of crash every now and then. I discovered that
if I left the machine to think a while, it would eventually recover --
usually after about 20 minutes.

It happened with annoying frequency for about a month, and then it
mysteriously went away. Hasn't happened in probably two months, though I
have had two kernal panics in the last two days.