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Hey, I'm running a Mac Pro (Early cardboard dividers 2008) with 6GB Ram, Parallels cardboard dividers 6 and the latest cardboard dividers version of Snow Leopard and have been having intermittent hangs in the system where kernel_task takes up all the processing power to the point where the mouse can barely move around for about 10-30 seconds and then things clear up. Happens several times a day. I thought it was a failing hard drive so I replaced the drive with a brand new one and am still having the same problem. I tried rummaging through the console logs and did notice some things failing having to do with parallels. Can someone help me with 2 things, 1, provide you with the proper info and log info and 2, help me figure out if parallels is in fact the problem? Thanks.
768 MB. Would this effect things even when Parallels is not running? Does it's processes in the LaunchAgent and LaunchDaemons pull from this preference? cardboard dividers
Parallels settings do not effect things when Parallels is not running. What things do you see failing in the console log? You can copy and paste here. Are you using Time Machine? Are you using virus or disk protection utilities? Try disabling those.
Post the console logs where you "noticed some things failing having to do with parallels". What operating system are you running on the virtual cardboard dividers machine? You are posting to the Mac OS X Guest OS Discussion forum so that means it's Leopard or Snow Leopard. So is it kernel_task cardboard dividers on your Mac or on the virtual machine that is taking up all the processing power? cardboard dividers Are the logs from your Mac or the virtual machine? Your Mac has 6 GB of RAM so you could possibly allocate 1 or 2 or even 3 GB to the virtual machine.
here cardboard dividers is the fresh parallels log from today. i pulled it right after the problem cardboard dividers occured. i'll post the system log after this is reviewed. cardboard dividers Parallels was not directly running cardboard dividers at the moment this happened. Let me know if anything stands out. Thanks. 10-28 09:13:09.067 F /disp:162:1b03/ Execute mode is DESKTOP_MAC. 10-28 09:13:09.118 F /disp:162:1b03/ cardboard dividers DAYLY TIMESTAMP: 2010-10-28 09:13:09 ( version = 6.0.11826.611899 ) 10-28 09:13:09.146 F /cmn_utils:162:1b03/ ParallelsDirs::Init( ) was called. Current app mode = 1 ( DESKTOP_MAC ) build version: 6.0.11826.611899 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:13:56 10-28 09:13:09.159 F /disp:162:1b03/ RLIMIT_NOFILE changed to maximum: 10240 10-28 09:13:09.160 F /disp:162:1b03/ Parallels Dispatcher cardboard dividers is processing cardboard dividers configuration file /Library/Preferences/Parallels/dispatcher.desktop.xml 10-28 09:13:09.165 F /disp:162:1b03/ Parallels Dispatcher ID={0021c44e-3eb3-4f76-ae20-2a66a10f30f7} configuration loaded successfully. 10-28 09:13:09.165 F /disp:162:1b03/ Applying initial verbose log level. bVerboseLogEnabled=0 /drv/ HypApic.c:230 Host APIC phy 0xFEE00000 lin 0x781ee000 ver 0x14 /drv/ HypVtd.c:3718 [vtdInit] /drv/ HypVtd.c:3734 [vtdInit] VTD initialization disabled /drv/ HypLowCache.c:173 cardboard dividers Low cache initialized cardboard dividers (10272 kB for 12 VMs on 6144 MB) /drv/ HypSMBios.c:54 Failed to find SMBios entry point /drv/ HypModule.c:174 Parallels IPI irq = 0 ipi = 0(0x0) /drv/ HypModule.c:181 Parallels cardboard dividers Hypervisor 6.0.11826.611899 loaded. /drv/ HypIoctls.c:911 Ioctl VT-d status: 0 10-28 09:13:12.884 F /disp:162:1b03/ initDispConfig() completed. 10-28 09:13:13.106 F /disp:162:1b03/ cardboard dividers initVmDirCatalogue() completed. 10-28 09:13:13.141 F /disp:162:1b03/ cardboard dividers loaded license state: [is valid], PRL_ERR_SUCCESS (0) 10-28 09:13:13.275 F /disp:162:1b03/ cardboard dividers First start of statistic reporter 10-28 09:13:13.275 F /disp:162:890b/ Task '24Task_AutoStatisticReport' with uuid = {6d61d2bb-4189-4026-8f79-0126f0e78ce3} was started 10-28 09:13:13.275 F /disp:162:8a07/ Task '24Task_AutoUpdateBlacklist' with uuid = {f734b8f5-0354-445b-a308-923cff67f0e9} was started 10-28 09:13:13.275 F /disp:162:1b03/ cardboard dividers Parallels Dispatcher initialization finished 10-28 09:13:13.276 F /disp:162:8b03/ Task '18Task_SyncVmsUptime' with uuid = {812ca7bc-82d2-488f-be27-6fd06b9bffcd} was started 10-28 09:13:13.276 F /disp:162:8b03/ Synchronization up time task was not started due to timeout is zero ! 10-28 09:13:13.276 F /disp:162:1b03/ CDspVmAutoprotectManager::Init() 10-28 09:13:13.276 F /disp:162:8b03/ Task '18Task_SyncVmsUptime' with uuid = {812ca7bc-82d2-488f-be27-6fd06b9bffcd} was finished with result PRL_ERR_SUCCESS (0) ) 10-28 09:13:13.313 F /disp:162:1b03/ Parallels Dispatcher started 10-28 09:13:13.402 F /disp:162:9253/ Start handle system cardboard dividers notification on devices state change 10-28 09:13:13.405 F /disp:162:9253/ NET_RT_IFLIST: buf overflow: 76z < 112z 10-28 09:18:13.481 F /disp:162:8d03/ Hardware Configuration was changed ! 10-28 09:18:13.481 F /disp:162:8d03/ On enter : dev_type = 0 dev_name = event_code = 0 10-28 09:18:13.505 F /disp:162:8d03/ On e