How does one see what tasks starts when on Mountain Lion?
I have had a beachball problem for a number of weeks now, and still can not figure out what is going wrong after four separate Support Desk people and one Genius Bar visit -- maybe you, my friends in the Apple Support Communities, can help decypher this.
Symptoms:
Invariably, my MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,2) with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) -- after exactly one hourof work (59 minutes, 58 seconds and then...) suddenly goes into beachball mode. No warning -- no new processes -- nothing but the beachball on the dialog I am working on. Within the next minute, all dialogs are unresponsive and I have to hard reboot my computer.
What is surprising is that when the beachball happens and I restart the system, all of my cookies (e.g., my Facebook login cookie, my Google 2-factor) and other status bookmarks (e.g., where the video stops on iTunes) disappear.
And if I wish to prolong my computer time, I have to put the computer in Sleep Mode for about 5 minutes, come back and get an additional hour of work before the beachball returns.
Scarily, I have watched it happen - and tracked the Activity Monitor and see nothing that pops up at that time point. No additional memory taken, no additional CPU -- nothing.
What is surprising is that when the beachball happens and I restart the system, all of my cookies (e.g., my Facebook login cookie, my Google 2-factor) and other status bookmarks (e.g., where the video stops on iTunes) disappear.
Additionally, when I boot in Safe mode - my 16G of RAM is almost totally taken up (15.1Gs) by nothing. Simply that 15.1Gs are "wired". The largest process is the mds - and that is only 500M.
Prior Efforts:
I have inspected the disk with Disk Utility, done both the Internet Hardware check (since my Recovery partition did not have it) and at the Genius Bar (with their super-special hardware check) and no problems. I have removed Launch Agents and Launch Daemons. I have removed startup items and purged the drive.
I keep being told I will have to erase and reinstall, but I think there is something much simplier here: some software that is being triggered to do something one hour after awaking from sleep.
I saw some people suggest it could be f.lux, but I have turned it off and it still happens. Additionally, one of my people suggested it was the Time Machine, so I turned it off -- and it still happened.
Any ideas what could be the problem?
As per everyone else, here is my EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 1024 MB
Startup Items:
ChmodBPF - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
HWNetMgr - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr
HWPortDetect - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect
MySQLCOM - Path: /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
VirtualBox - Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
ZendServer_init - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ZendServer_init
System Software:
OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) - Uptime: 0 days 0:10
Disk Information:
M4-CT512M4SSD2 disk0 : (512.11 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 511.25 GB (78.47 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
USB Information:
Western Digital My Passport 07AE 500.07 GB
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Recovery HD (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 650 MB
Backup Disk (disk1s3) /Volumes/Backup Disk: 494.59 GB (138.75 GB free)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
DisplayLink UV195
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.avatron.AVExVideo Version: 1.7
com.displaylink.driver.DisplayLinkDriver Version: 1.8
net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio Version: 1.0.5
com.vara.driver.VaraAudio Version: 1.0.3
com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer Version: 1.7
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv Version: 4.2.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB Version: 4.2.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt Version: 4.2.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp Version: 4.2.4
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.displaylink.usbnivolistener.plist
[loaded] com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist
[loaded] com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
[loaded] com.displaylink.useragent.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.sanford.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.hp.printerAgent.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
User Login Items:
Flux
Alfred
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Air Display Preferences
DeployStudioServer
DivX
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Growl
MenuMeters
Perian
Web Sharing
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
OVSHelper.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Anystream.plugin
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin
fbplugin_1_0_3.plugin
Picasa.plugin
WebEx64.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes by CPU:
3% DisplayLinkManager
3% WindowServer
2% EtreCheck
1% DashboardClient
1% fontd
1% SystemUIServer
0% Finder
0% Flux
0% mds
0% zdd
Top Processes by Memory:
262 MB mds
131 MB WindowServer
98 MB Dock
49 MB com.apple.dock.extra
49 MB DisplayLinkManager
49 MB mysqld
49 MB Finder
49 MB Google
33 MB java
33 MB coresymbolicationd
Uninstall CleanMyMac and reinstall the OS. You've likely "cleaned" something you should not have.
If CleanMyMac removes uneeded languages from applications, reinstall the applications. Some do not function well when you remove them.
You also have a ton of other third-party stuff which could be causing the problem.
ChmodBPF - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
HWNetMgr - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr
HWPortDetect - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect
MySQLCOM - Path: /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
VirtualBox - Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
ZendServer_init - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ZendServer_init
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.displaylink.usbnivolistener.plist
[loaded] com.fitbit.fitbitd.plist
[loaded] com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
[loaded] com.displaylink.useragent.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.sanford.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.hp.printerAgent.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
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