How do i stop trackpad pointer freezing?

How do I stop trackpad pointer freezing?

I have this same problem. I press the sleep button twice (once to sleep, once to awaken), and I can work again. Freezes on multi-finger scroll/swipes (somtimes on two fingers, always on three). I have tried changing multi-finger option in the trackpad config, to no avail.
iMac (mid 2010), Intel Core i3, OS X 10.9

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