Osx Freeze!! is it RAM or HD ??

Hi there,
For a couple of months my laptop gives unexpected osx-freezes (no kernal-panics). But they only apair when my laptop is doing nothing. So, like playing the screensaver or only running i-tunes.
Somebody told me that can be my RAM or HD. But the Apple Hardware Test don't give negative results on the hardware. So thats weird.
Has someone experience with this problem? So yes, what is the best part to replace?(the HD or RAM)
Thnx,
Iwan

Hi,
thnx for welcome.
It's the orginal HD 80GB (seagate) and there is +/- 17Gb Free. So that can't be the problem. right?
Message was edited by: iwanski

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When I launch JDev 10.1.3.2.0 on Mac OSX, the status bar on the bottom of the app says "Building class list for project "ProjectName.jpr" and the animated status bar keeps cycling.
My CPU is at 100% and the java process is taking most of it.
If I remove the project from the application and restart JDev, everything is fine. The moment I add the project back into the application tho, it is stuck again.
This happened when I went to the application properties, and added two more JAR files to the application.
I have since removed these JAR files from the application, and removed them from the disk where they were... Still does not resolve the problem.
I have searched the forums, and can see that there was a problem with the preferences in the IDE, and deleting the preferences file fixed the issue - that's not the case for me. I tried to delete the file and restart, but I get the same results.
Short of reinstalling JDev, I'm not sure what to do...
Any thoughts?
Thanks.

It seems it was my error. After a few hours of debugging, I discovered that I had accidentally added "/" to the JAR Directory path - JDev was trying to search my entire hard drive for JAR files to add. I removed this entry, and all worked again...
Should the "Add Directory" function not limit itself to the selected directory instead of all sub-directories listed?
Thanks

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When I right-click anything in my dock, the dock and finder freezes (no pinwheel) until I click something in the top taskbar like my wireless icon or the display icon.
If I right-click an application then say I push show desktop or all windows or anything, after I click the taskbar it will run through all the buttons/actions I pushed until present. The right-click menu stays on the app and I am unable to click anything in the dock.
I can't right click the trash to empty it, I have to open a finder window and right-click within the window.
What gives?! This is so weird, any help is much appreciated!

It sounds like an item in HD/Library/Contextual Menu Items. Drag the contents of that folder to the desktop and test again. If that sorts it put the items back one at a time to find the culprit..Also, go to Users/Home/Library/Contextual Menu Items and do the same.
-mj

OSX freezes randomly

My Mac freezes all of a sudden randomly.
No spinning beach balls.
It just freezes and I can't even move the cursor.
It happens time to time and I have no idea what's causing it.
First I thought it's because of the heat, but since my mac isn't so hot
when it freezes, I assume it's not the heat.
I think this is since 10.9.4.
Until 10.9.3 I have never experienced it.
I'm using MacPro 2013.
I hope someone knows the solution for it.
Thanks

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamps of the BOOT_TIME log messages, which refer to the times when the system was started. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
For example, if the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down for three minutes before you forced a restart, post the messages timestamped within three minutes before the boot time, not after. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract—not at the beginning.
If there are long runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
☞ When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
          DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A crash report has a name that begins with the name of the crashed process and ends in ".crash". A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". A shutdown stall report has a name that ends in ".shutdownstall". Select the most recent of each, if any. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot. It's possible that none of these reports exists.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
☞ If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash or panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
☞ Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

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