Some "funny" crashes

Hello,
I'm experiencing daily Aperture 2.1.1 crashes. Some of those are directly related to Aperture running, others are seemingly related to Aperture having run earlier (since previous reboot)
* On import of 1-2k images, the entire machine becomes ill. It'll show the spinner for tens of seconds, then run normally for a few secs, then show the spinner again, etc. etc. Only solution is to reboot.
* If I put the computer under some RAM pressure, e.g. have Aperture open, then open Pages and drag 150 images from the Media Browser => Pages, then the system becomes first unresponsive (cursor will move, but nothing else happens), then the display will corrupt completely, showing small rectangles of different colors (3-20 pixel side length) and be wholly messed up. Only solution is to reboot.
* If Aperture has run earlier, and done "real work", then it seems like overall system stability under load is impaired. I'll occasionally see the display corruption problem mentioned above.
* While not exactly a crash, the thumbnail display in Aperture can get corrupted: Aperture draws trash. Quit and relaunch => thumbnail is fine. So it seems like a display problem.
What I'm getting at is this: Aperture's use of the display hardware seems to corrupt something. The display adapter in my MBP is, as far as I know, using shared memory for 128MB of 256MB total, and maybe that's what's causing my problems.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

I could pour more RAM into the box, but I think that's just painting over the problem: Using Aperture causes my system to become unstable. I think Aperture's use of the GPU is causing issues, some of it because the app causes OS X to leak system memory.
Re. activity monitor: Once the import has completed, activity is low. Indicated total RAM usage is well within the 2GB I have in the system. That's why I think it's system memory (or GPU memory) that's leaking. And leaked memory is rarely counted by tools like the activity monitor.

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Process:         uCalendarX [750]
Path:            /Applications/uCalendarX 3.2.3/uCalendarX 3-2-3.app/Contents/MacOS/uCalendarX
Identifier:      com.riuz.ucalendarx
Version:         3.2.3 (3.2.3)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [289]
Date/Time:       2012-02-20 00:38:48.931 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          2463 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 30 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   3
Anonymous UUID:                      0CA8DA26-8927-4AC3-B35F-3B2E9FD65A8E
Crashed Thread: 4
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Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000008bcc45ab
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Thread creation by external task.
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-->
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1   libFontParser.dylib               0x9cc5b403 TFileDescriptorContext::TFileDescriptorContext(char const*) + 77
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15 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e1b8fd TBaseFont::GetGlyphsForCharacterRange(CFRange, unsigned short*) const + 27
16 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e1b79b TASCIIDataCache::TASCIIDataCache(TBaseFont const*) + 83
17 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e1b70f TBaseFont::CreateASCIIDataCache() const + 47
18 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e1b690 TFont::InitAdvanceCache() const + 42
19 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e1b4ad TASCIIEncoder::Encode() + 45
20 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e4433f TGlyphEncoder::EncodeChars(CFRange, TAttributes const&, TGlyphList<TDeletedGlyphIndex>&, TGlyphEncoder::Fallbacks) + 925
21 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e19ff6 TTypesetterAttrString::Initialize(__CFAttributedString const*) + 322
22 com.apple.CoreText                0x90e19b9d CTLineCreateWithAttributedString + 47
23 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d2b2d TCoreTextEngine::LayoutSingleLine(THIThemeTextInfo*, float) + 23
24 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d2a9a TCoreTextEngine::Layout(THIThemeTextInfo*, float, float, TextLayoutType) + 64
25 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963ad2c9 TCoreTextEngine::VerifyLayout(THIThemeTextInfo*, float, float, LayoutIntent) + 309
26 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x96410b0a TCoreTextEngine::GetThemeTextDimensions(float, THIThemeTextInfo*, float*, float*, float*) + 54
27 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x9640fc51 DataEngine::GetTextDimensions(void const*, float, HIThemeTextInfo*, float*, float*, float*) + 283
28 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d1fc5 HIThemeGetTextDimensions + 187
29 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d1ca3 HIMenuBarView::MeasureMenuTitle(MenuData*, unsigned char, float*, int, unsigned char*) + 451
30 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d1a49 HIMenuBarView::MeasureAppMenus() + 261
31 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963abb5d HIMenuBarView::EnsureBarLayout() + 489
32 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963ab152 HIMenuBarView::DrawSelf(short, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 520
33 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963aac22 HIView::DrawCacheOrSelf(short, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 86
34 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963aaa42 HIView::SendDraw(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 124
35 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x964395c7 HIView::RecursiveDrawComposited(__HIShape const*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*, unsigned char, float) + 755
36 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x964398b9 HIView::RecursiveDrawComposited(__HIShape const*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*, unsigned char, float) + 1509
37 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x9643a86b HIView::DrawComposited(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*) + 1227
38 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x9643a9b3 HIView::Draw(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, unsigned long) + 81
39 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x9643ad7b HIView::Render(unsigned long, CGContext*) + 45
40 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963d084f WindowData::PrepareForVisibility() + 137
41 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963cf893 _ShowHideWindows + 355
42 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963cf728 ShowHide + 44
43 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x96399b09 _GetMenuBarWindow + 872
44 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x96399765 GetMenuBarView(MenuData*, unsigned char) + 74
45 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963a2f3a MBarMenuRgn + 26
46 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963a2d27 _ZL7ShowBar21MenuBarAnimationStylehhh + 281
47 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963cd42a _ZL21UpdateAggregateUIMode21MenuBarAnimationStylehh + 772
48 com.apple.HIToolbox               0x963e38e5 ShowMenuBar + 163
49 com.apple.AppKit                  0x001a9cad -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 1331
50 com.apple.AppKit                  0x001a9374 -[NSApplication run] + 142
51 com.apple.AppKit                  0x0043d261 NSApplicationMain + 1054
52 com.riuz.ucalendarx               0x00001eea _start + 216
53 com.riuz.ucalendarx               0x00001e11 start + 4

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So the mystery continues, but these additional facts will help with the diagnosis, I hope.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
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The tech at the apple store told me that one of the heat sink pins on the CPU just plan broke off and another wasn't attached correctly. Essentially the system kept overheating as I was consisently completely maxxing out the system doing CGI test renders for my junior animated short film. The cooling system was never fully connected at the factory according to the Apple Tech. I don't know how literate everyone reading this is on computer engineering but, when you overheat an IC, whether it's an ASIC or CPU, they dont' immediately crash, they corrupt data. To further complicate the mess and increase teh chances of data corruption, with the 4th gen Intel i series CPUs (which the MBP uses), they moved the northbridge directly into the CPU die. So if teh CPU is overheating, the chances of data corruption inadvertantly go up even higher. I'm suspecting that happened in the first few days of owning the system but that it was minor at that point. It can take months for the effects of corrupted data to propagate out and be visible to the user.
I would assume that they did a diagnostic test on the SSD when it was in for service, to ensure the SSD didn't overheat. The tech did state that if the drive failed the diagnostics, they would have ot replace the drive and henceforth all my data would be gone. Not really a way around it.
Currently under the windows 7 install with Maya and Vue, later iterations of the scene file, from Maya, for my animated short film, have a reproduceable glitch involving a gamma shift and camera selection. Part of the scene files seem to be corrupt and were saved that way.
Reloading the OS from the recovery partition did not fix the original problem I've been having that I initially asked for help with. I'm considering wiping out the recovery partition in addition to reinstalling windows 7 and OS X again, it would be the only way to completely eliminate the possibility of any corrupted data floating around on either partition. I don't have a way of knowing if corrupted data was written to the SSD beyond the corrupted Maya scene files. The only way I can be sure that it's 'contained' or eliminated, is if I completely wipe the drive and start from scratch. Now would be a great time rather than in the middle of working on my senior thesis for my BFA degree.
I'm wondering if you could point me to documentation showing how to wipe out all the partitions, including the recovery one. My understanding is that there is a way to do a 'net boot' or 'net recovery' over a broadband connection using Apples servers. The idea of doing a Live boot from a Ubuntu distro to run fsck is appealing but it would be pointless. The file system shoul be fine, it's the data the file system points to that I suspect is corrupted at somepoint. Unless you recommend otherwise and or formatting.
The overheating also corrupted my journal but there is no way to recover it, I overwrote the earlier file(it looks like uncompiled C++ and jibberished text) when I saved it after completing an entry. This was many months ago. Though the idea of attempting a restore with Ubuntu Remix or other recovery Linux distros is appealing I'm doubtful I'd get far, though it's an SSD not a traditional harddrive and they don't work the same.
Back to the main point though, I suspect the overheating corrupted a prefs file which is causing the glitch I'm seeing, and reloading the OS did not fix it.

I want to load large raw XML file in firefox and parse by DOM. But, for large XML file the firefox very slow some time crashed . Is there any option to increase DOM handling memory in Firefox

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though. If I use a relational database and try to
access it for EACH and EVERY click the user makes,
wouldn't that take much time to populate the page with
data?
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Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
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Thanks!

Thanks man. I have a Mac Pro tower, dual 2 gHz dual-core processors (quad) with 10 gigs of RAM. It's a bit old, but it handles most of this stuff perfectly.
I don't see how I can attach a file to this message board, but the file (files) in question were .aif files, the finder calls them "AIFF-C audio." They play fine in quick look, quicktime, and FCP. On import, they either crash Premiere or lock it up so that I have to force it to quit anyway.
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Hi messnerm001, and a warm welcome to the forums!
They may need replacing, fixing the HD may or may not fox files, it just repairs where the OS thinks the files are and such.
Try this first, Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Reboot.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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The permission repair tool wrote 2 warnings:
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So to for the following:
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No effect was to be seen after stoping some of non apple application startup services in the user account preference place.
Only the warm start after a permission repair helps but its not the way i´d like to work every time.

MacinMuc wrote:
When i´m starting my IMAC running on OS 10.6 some programs like firefox or filemaker 9.X will not start or crashes. So i repaired the permissions and after a warm reboot these programs are working, until the next "cold" start.
For Firefox, try tuning off all add-ons. If things get better, then add them back one at a time to try to identify the culprit(s). You also might try deleting bad and duplicate fonts using Fontbook.
I think the cause of these effects are older software or drivers (like from my HP scanjet 4600), but its difficult to analyse which one is the destroyer of the permission.
Have you checked on the compatibility of your software in general. Go [here|http://snowleopard.wikidot.com> and [here|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258].
No effect was to be seen after stoping some of non apple application startup services in the user account preference place.
I would not have expected a fix there.
Only the warm start after a permission repair helps but its not the way i´d like to work every time.
I would imagine the restarts are what helps, not the permissions repairs. As KT indicates the permission warnings you have received are safety ignored.

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So I've only had CS3 for about a month now (had 6.5 forever) and I'm having some stability problems. Using vista 64 but had the same problems in 32 bit vista (and windows 7 which I tried for about a week).
First it was crashing because of divx, I uninstalled divx.
Then it seemed that Cineform Neoscene was crashing it, they released an update and I reinstalled Neo scene with the update and that stopped crashing it. Now I get somewhat random crashes that just say App crash and I get a message pop up that says
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Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files (x...
R6025
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I am running as administrator...
Thanks.

Most of the footage is cineform files, converted using the latest version of neo scene. But its happened before I've even opened a project or imported any kind of files. Audio is PCM. Sometimes the error will come up and if I hit x instead of "close the program" it stays running just fine, other times it will close.
Adobe updater updated everything by itself, know it updated all the core programs, etc. (using Production Premium)
Every available vista update is installed including service pack 2. Latest nVidia drivers, etc. I ran spybot and antivirus software today.
All the OS were on the same system but the HDD was completely formatted inbetween installs. Yes W7 RC was used.
Core 2 Duo T9300
4GB RAM
nVidia 8600M
1 internal 320GB HDD
1 external esata 1TB HDD
Blu ray read + write drive
I have a feeling it could be something to do with Cineform but what and why?
EDIT -
It just happened when I tried to open Encore and crashed before the program even started with this in the details:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Adobe Encore.exe
Application Version: 3.0.1.8
Application Timestamp: 46cf7628
Fault Module Name: libguide40.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.0.2007.602
Fault Module Timestamp: 4661a089
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000133f0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

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Hello,
I have an urgent issue here!
In recent months while browsing on sites using my iPad1 WIFI it sometimes unexpectedly crashes and brings me right back to my homepage apps! I have tried many other browsers besides safari, but often the same is true! While this happens of those sites that I was logged-in I am logged out and loose everything that I was working on. Those sites that I was just browsing I loose them totally and cant get back to them no browser history will reveal the exact section of a website I was using at the time.
Can someone please give me some support to solve this issue ASAP!!!

Hello,
thank you for your support.
As to your solution, initially I thought about it as I did it a few months ago. But since you reminded me about that, I did it again! All worked well but yesterday and today its the same problem I am having. I have cross checked possible solutions deleted a few conflicting apps that some users indicated in forums. But now again facing the same situation. Do you think its an issue with one of the apps I am using? If so how can I locate such an app? Or do you have any other solution to this? Software is upto date as well!
Thank you very much for your support
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