I have a retina MacBook Pro, and a thunderbolt display.  I've noticed that randomly when docking to the display (I close my laptop screen) my Launchpad layout will randomly reset.  It isn't consistent, and i'm not sure why this is happening!

This is very annoying because I really enjoy using launchpad.  I have a lot of applications in there and I hate having to reorganize everything.  I messed with a third party application before to backup/restore my launchpad layout, but it had some issues with Mountain Lion so I ditched it.  Any thoughts?

Threads are just processes that link together like the threads in these discussions, well, maybe that is a bad example given how disjointed these get
It looks like you are not pushing the cpu or hard drive enough to cause your behavior.  Not sure what the temperature limit on that cpu is, on the newer models it is around 100-110 °C which is notciabley hot, and the system shutsdown for self protection at the thermal limit.
You could be hitting a thermal limit causing that behavior...so do you see good behavior at lower load levela on the system?  Does this only happen with when you are under the high graphic loads?
Trying to zero in on when this occurs to see if we an isolate the problem.

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