Activity Monitor Keeps Locking Up

Every time I try to access the activity monitor, I get the SBOD. How do I fix this?

Open the Console application and look for log entries made around the last time you tried to open the Activity Monitor. If the logs tell you that pmTool isn't setuid, use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to repair your permissions and try again. If you get another message, post back with the complete text of that message.
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Activity monitor keeps hanging and hanging..

Hi all there!
I've the problem that this application just wont work, whatever I'm doing if I start the Activity monitor the application opens nothing happens and a few seconds later the bleachball of death appears and the application just freezes and becomes unresponsive, I've to force the exit to close the app
any idea on how to get rid of the problem?
here's the report of the console
+11/12/09 20.58.10 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[628]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/activitymonitord", ...): No such file or directory+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[628]) Exited with exit code: 1+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[629]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/activitymonitord", ...): No such file or directory+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[629]) Exited with exit code: 1+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
this messages just keep going on and on..
many thanks!!
cheers

scareface2 wrote:
thanks to both for the suggestions
You are very welcome.
@dovn
I red the page, the fact is that I'm not able to figure out what's causing the problem
the application freezes in any occasion, even when the mac was just turned on..
could it be that it's somehow in conflict with an other process running in background?!
Sometime conflict occur, but I doubt with Activity Monitor.
I was thinking of maybe I could just insert the OSX application disk that came with the macbook and trying that way reinstalling the app?!
Did your machine come with Snow? Anyway, I would do a repair install of Sno by installing Sno over Sno as in an upgrade install. Such an install, while usually very safe, still is an install so be appropriated backed up if you proceed. You will need to reinstall 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 after the repair install. Do so using only the [10.6.2 combo updater|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959].This approach might fix any corruption leading to your problem.

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Sorry didn't mean to press this solved my question, yeah I've restarted it loads of times! It's been happening for a couple of months now it's really strange because it should just restart itself if it's that essential! But it's still not working-.-

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I found a possible solution for finding the cause of the error. Open Activity Monitor. Be sure you have the Real Memory column showing and the Processes dropdown menu set to All Processes. Select the Real Mem column and sort in descending order. Leave Activity Monitor open. The next time the error appears the application at the top of the column is the one causing the error.

Multicam keeps locking up after 12 minutes of perfection!

I'm having the weirdest problem with FCP's new multicam feature which I can't figure out if its a hardware limitation or a software problem.....
I've got 3 angles captured via OfflineRT, and I'm editing as if trying to make a "live" switch of the footage. For the first 12 minutes, it worked PERFECTLY. I was shocked and excited at how smooth my little project was coming together. Each edit being made exactly where I wanted it to. Happiness seemed inevitable.
Until I reach the 12 minutes point....
After that, it keeps locking up. The program doesn't crash, but it refuses to play. I get 5 seconds of video, then the spinning beach ball for 50 seconds. No edits recorded. No nothing. It brings my system to a screeching halt until I shut down and restart, only to continue once again after I open FCP.
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Any help would be much appreciated!!

Hey Patrick! Thanks for writing back so fast.
1. It's after 12 minutes in the timeline.... that's when all the trouble started. Of course, at this point, it won't even work at all. Stops playing at the exact same place every time.
2. Activity Monitor says only 16% of the CPU is being used by FCP, and 692 megs of RAM is being used overall. Doesn't seem to be maxxing out....
3. The file size of the project is huge.... which sort of baffles me. 9.2 megs. Features I've edited have smaller project sizes than that, with 5 times the amount of edits. What the heck is going on???

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I have had my imac for nearly 18 months now,
It's okay, is the best I can say about it.
It cost me around £800+
So recently (and foolishly!) I downloaded OS Mavericks when I was actually looking for a freebie word processor programme (I got Bean because it's simple like me.)
Now the point of all this is that Mavericks has new features like a redesigned Safari (But I ain't noticed any difference yet) and Imaps (Huh!) and Ibooks and Imovie or something.
So when you are oldish like me, you really don't want people to keep changing and introducing new stuff (most of which is pointless anyway) all the time; because it takes us old ***** a while to get used to the last "improvement."
So you try and get rid of all these new apps that you don't want and didn't ask for anyway,
and then you find out you can't, because they're an integral part of the new OS.
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Then you find that Mail has to redo itself and this thing no longer works properly etc. and you start wishing you hadn't got up that morning...
So you try and get it all back the way it was..
And you can't.
Because you don't have an external hard drive to use the Time machine back up facility.
So you get in touch with Apple Support and it's now nearly bedtime, but at least you feel like you might be gettin' somewhere.
You talk to the supportguy and suddenly you can't remember what the problem is and what your name is, and you're thinking you might as well order in a pizza seein' as you've drunk the last of the gin..."
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Press here for a full maintenance overview and repair menu.."
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Activity Monitor shows very little free space. Help?

I am wanting to do Photoshop Creative Suite 6 on my MacBook Pro and everything is running SO SLOW! I have opened the Activity Monitor to check things out. I am not a computer expert at all, so I have included some information below in hopes that this will help dissect the problem.
It seems to me that the following numbers are high and I am wondering if I can TRASH anything that is taking up too much space? What programs on my MacBook Pro are taking up SO MUCH space? When I open my computer, I only start running FireFox and Entourage. Should I get rid of other icons in my dock that are not running? By being on the dock, does this use RAM?
I had a lot of pictures on iphoto and I moved them all to an external hard drive.
I have emptied the iphoto trash and double-clicked the actual trash can to delete everything!
I don't have any third party software on my computer. I have heard that this can be bad, so I don't have any of that.
I did purchase Mac Cleaner (or something similar) several years ago, and it caused MAJOR problems on my computer. I had to start from scratch and set up everything again with the help of a great MAC products person on the phone. I want to TRASH anything that is taking up extra space (cashe) but I don't want to buy a third party "MAC Cleaning" product.
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It also shows in the "About the Mac" that L2 Cache is 3 MB. This seems high for the cashe. Can this be cleaned up somehow?
I realize that the following numbers fluctuate, but gave the "ballpark" numbers as they are coming up now.
The GREEN portion of the "pie" is almost non-existent. The % User fluctuates between 5.00 and 8.00. The RED % System is at about 2.50. The Black % Idle fluctuates between 80.00 and 90.00.
The System Memory FREE (Green) is at about 104.0 MB. The ACTIVE is at 758.2 MB. The INACTIVE is at about 646.0 MB. USED: 1.90 GB.
VM Size: 200.40 GB
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Page outs: 209.7 MB
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Disk ACTIVITY
Reads in : 347394
Reads out: 161500
data read: 5.61 GB
Data Written: 6.95 GB
DISK USAGE
Space utilized: 65.41 GB
Space Free: 93.44 GB
NETWORK
Packets in: 48755
Packets out: 33185
Data Rec'd: 48.7 MB
Data Sent: 4.5 MB
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Since your computer is five years old there is no warranty to negate. If if there were, replacing the RAM in a MacBook Pro would not void the warrantly. If you update the RAM, keep the old RAM just in case.
The new RAM is a $100 investment. Compare that to a Retina MBP with 8 GB of RAM for $1,400 (128 GB SSD) or $1,500 (256 GB SSD). Your choice.
Take a look at the free tutorial at http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook on replacing RAM in your MBP to see if you think it is easy enough for you. I expect you will.
On a 2009 MacBook (not Pro) I recently upgraded the RAM to 8 GB and the disk to an SSD and it improved the boot time and application start times dramatically. Now it runs most things as fast as my MacBook Air. It even boots faster than my MBA. That was about a $200 investment. So I my expereince is it is worth updating older Macs.
Rather than installiing an expensive SSD, you can boost the speed of the disk dramatically to SSD-like speeds for about $110.
I am referring to the Seagate 1T Hybrid SSHD 2.5” drive selling for about $110 on Amazon. It includes an 8 GB SSD cache that really speeds up your I/O and with 1 TB of storage you should never run out of disk space.
It is fairly easy to replace the disk yourself, especially if you purchase the following inexpensive kits:
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USB 2.0 disk enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ES2.5BPU2S/
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Install the new drive in the external enclosure.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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Erase tab > Name: Macintosh HD2 > Security Options… > single pass of zeroes > OK > Erase…
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Clone the existing drive onto the new one:
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> Destination: “Macintosh HD2” or whatever you named it.
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Physically swap the two drives using the tutorial above.
Boot normally.
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Spinning Ball 4 1 App. + No Activity Monitor!?

So I'm having some issues with my G4, running 10.3.9. It is having real problems accessing a certain file and program. I haven't quite been able to reason it down to some corrupt application or file...I believe the problem is bigger than that.
Not sure what I did, but I can't download anything with my download manager Speed Download! I get the spinning-ball-of-death when I try to open or run S.D. I get the same spinning-ball when I try to open the folder where S.D. stores it's downloaded files.
I've unistalled the application and deleted/changed the download folder that S.D. uses. I figure this would cancel out any corrupt files within the app; however, when I try to open the new version of Speed Download it starts the process and then just spins. I can't click on anything to do with the app. But everything else on the machine functions as normal.
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It seems that it is a font corruption problem. I would love to be able to root out the corupt fonts and keep the rest. I can temporarily remove the fonts, or move them to another folder, but this is temporary!
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Any ideas on what's going on here? I've tried resetting the NVRAM....

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It works for me with one quirk. If I go to empty Desktop 2 it appears, if I return to Desktop 1 it's hidden behind other windows.
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