My iMac shuts down by itself ocassionally for no apparent reason.It happened overnight last night.Here's the Problem Details report that appeared on restart. [code]
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
ok so i suppose the inevitable had to happen. and so my mac OS X crashed badly within a few days of my getting this new MBP!
i had a short word document open in 1 workspace some firefox tabs in another, and was checking out the movies in my ext HDD (formatted with NTFS).and suddenly i start seeing this multi colored round icon which i guess is the cousin of the windows hourglass. after trying unsuccessfully to force quit, i was forced to hut down using the boot up button. yes, the same procedure that wreaks havoc on the HDD.
- so my questions are - what to do if even force quit doesn't work ? its surprising that it didn't in this case, as i have used ubuntu for almost 3 years and never had the OS crash on me! of course there were a few application crashes but the force quit always worked. and there was the keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- also what is the norm with macs in this regard ? do they crash often and for the flimsiest of reasons as in my case ?
- probably i am not aware of the Mac OS equivalent for the Ctrl+Alt+Del function that almost always works in ubuntu. so is there some key combination that is guaranteed to work in the even that even force quit does not?
A few days ago I found that launchd was constantly using around 14% of my CPU (via iStat), which drastically lowered my battery life and caused my CPU to reach 75 degrees Celsius and higher. Initially I thought that SL just needed to do something, so I ignored it. But it has persisted for a few days now, so I decided to do something about it.
I checked the Console and nothing appeared to be repeating itself, so what I did was use MainMenu to perform a batch of system maintenance tasks, and then left my Mac on overnight to see what Console would report. Besides hourly instances of "kernel" running "iCalHelper" and "SubmitDiagInfo", there was nothing else.
However, launchd lowered its CPU usage to about 3%, but it is still constant and my CPU is still at a constant 40-50%. Activity Monitor says the following processes are (constantly) taking only 1-4% of the CPU:
coreservicesd
launchd
mds
WindowServer
disnoted
activitymonitord
...and others
The CPU is reported as 35% User and 20% System. But I am not running anything besides Activity Monitor.
Should I use my Apple Care, or is there a quick fix?
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MacBook Pro
my MacBook Pro keeps crashing.Â
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Wed Aug 27 14:18:24 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80250dc24e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80250c6d91, type 13=general protection, registers:
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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I have had this for the last few days, so I don't really know what's going on...Â
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Sun Aug 31 00:07:39 2014
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8002c5220d): "zalloc: zone map exhausted while allocating from zone kalloc.8192, likely due to memory leak in zone kalloc.64 (1440851328 total bytes, 22513266 elements allocated)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.100.13/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:2494
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81348c3c70 : 0xffffff8002c22fa9
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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