El capitan - micro freeze on OS

[Wizzardo]

Hi everybody,
I updated to El capitan (macbook pro early 2008) and I have a big problem.

Every 10 min my os freeze for just 5 second... I can't use mouse or keyboard but the system still working (for example videos or loading wheel)... It's really annoying! I have a ssd hd + 1tb hd.

I already made a clean install of the OS.

Can someone help me please?

thanks a lot

F.

 

[CoastalOR]

Try running Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder and look at the % CPU tab. Is there some activity occurring every ten minutes during the freeze?

 

[Wizzardo]

Try running Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder and look at the % CPU tab. Is there some activity occurring every ten minutes during the freeze?

checkd.... nothing suspiscius..... I really don't know what it can be..... other idea??

 

[CoastalOR]

checkd.... nothing suspiscius..... I really don't know what it can be..... other idea??

Are your "ssd hd + 1tb hd" fused? I'm assuming you have one of the drives in a caddy in the optical bay. How do you have your drives setup? I'm wondering if you have the beginning of a HD problem.
Have you tried running Disk Utility First Aid?

 

[Gochugogi]

I was having random short freezes, crashes, slow performance and over heating while running PS and video plugins after upgrading to 10.11.2. Finally I checked Activity Monitor during one of these episodes--it barely opened--and saw Google Updater going nuts. It actually "called the mothership" thousands of times at 4:28PM, choking my CPU and internet connection. After several unsuccessful tries with terminal commands--apparently Google changes Updater regularly, invalidating last month's terminal fix--I was able to remove Updater with App Cleaner. All 300MB of Google spyware. Now all is well and normal! No more Google extensions or apps for me...

The tricky thing is Updater is often inactive so a casual check often reveals normal system activity. However, once it cranks up, it dominates your Mac and generates many pages of Activity Monitor logs.

 

[nbnbxdnb]

I was having random short freezes, crashes, slow performance and over heating while running PS and video plugins after upgrading to 10.11.2. Finally I checked Activity Monitor during one of these episodes--it barely opened--and saw Google Updater going nuts. It actually "called the mothership" thousands of times at 4:28PM, choking my CPU and internet connection. After several unsuccessful tries with terminal commands--apparently Google changes Updater regularly, invalidating last month's terminal fix--I was able to remove Updater with App Cleaner. All 300MB of Google spyware. Now all is well and normal! No more Google extensions or apps for me...

The tricky thing is Updater is often inactive so a casual check often reveals normal system activity. However, once it cranks up, it dominates your Mac and generates many pages of Activity Monitor logs.

Was there any reason for google updater to do that? I am using chrome all the time. I just checked the console and didn't find that call mothership message.

 

[OrganMusic]

I have this exact problem also with my early 2008 Mbp

 

[Wizzardo]

I was having random short freezes, crashes, slow performance and over heating while running PS and video plugins after upgrading to 10.11.2. Finally I checked Activity Monitor during one of these episodes--it barely opened--and saw Google Updater going nuts. It actually "called the mothership" thousands of times at 4:28PM, choking my CPU and internet connection. After several unsuccessful tries with terminal commands--apparently Google changes Updater regularly, invalidating last month's terminal fix--I was able to remove Updater with App Cleaner. All 300MB of Google spyware. Now all is well and normal! No more Google extensions or apps for me...

The tricky thing is Updater is often inactive so a casual check often reveals normal system activity. However, once it cranks up, it dominates your Mac and generates many pages of Activity Monitor logs.

Thanks for the answear. Can you be more precise on what you delete via AppCleaner?

I have delete google chrome and everything of google from my mac but in the console I still have googleSoftwareUpdateAgent. Can you please help me to delete it?

thanks

F.
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I have this exact problem also with my early 2008 Mbp

Wow.... so it's something everybody has? I had the idea to reinstall on new hard drive but at this point I think that the problem is different!

 

[Gochugogi]

I simply clicked the checkbox for Google updater in the left column and it appears in the "to be deleted" column on the right. Finally, click the "remove" button on the bottom right. I paid the $3.99 fee prior to doing all this. As I understand, the "free" state of AppCleaner is not fully enabled and won't actually remove many things.

 

[Wizzardo]

I simply clicked the checkbox for Google updater in the left column and it appears in the "to be deleted" column on the right. Finally, click the "remove" button on the bottom right. I paid the $3.99 fee prior to doing all this. As I understand, the "free" state of AppCleaner is not fully enabled and won't actually remove many things.

I can't solve this.... will format and reinstall without installing google software... but I have a bed premonition because I had the same problem even in the recovery mode (outside OS).... what do you think? if is google problem this should be the best way.....

 

[mattysouthall]

I get this issue sometimes where it would freeze for a few seconds and then be fine, I am using a 2015 rMBP with SSD so no idea what causes it.

 

[Wizzardo]

I can't solve this.... will format and reinstall without installing google software... but I have a bed premonition because I had the same problem even in the recovery mode (outside OS).... what do you think? if is google problem this should be the best way.....

It's not google update.....
formatted the mac, nothing install, same problem!

try to install Yosemite..................

 

[Gochugogi]

Maybe you need to do the PRAM reset dance. Over the years it has cleared out strange behavior on my Macs many times after an OS update.

 

[OrganMusic]

I have both 10.11.3 and 10.5.8 on this machine. I thought it might be a hardware glitch as I had to do a bunch of repairs inside recently, but it never happens in 10.5.8. I installed the PUBLIC BETA 2 update just before writing this so we'll see if it fixes anything. It's hard to tell if the whole OS is freezing or just the keyboard and trackpad.

Edit: still happening.
Edit 2: No Chrome on this machine.

 

[Wizzardo]

I have both 10.11.3 and 10.5.8 on this machine. I thought it might be a hardware glitch as I had to do a bunch of repairs inside recently, but it never happens in 10.5.8. I installed the PUBLIC BETA 2 update just before writing this so we'll see if it fixes anything. It's hard to tell if the whole OS is freezing or just the keyboard and trackpad.

Edit: still happening.
Edit 2: No Chrome on this machine.

I tried the beta too but no result.
With maveriks things seems to work well. I was thinking it was a hardware problems too but... it's not. Is El Capitan! Strange but true. I will still in Maverick and install Chrome.

 

[b0fh666]

set yor hard drives to never sleep see if it helps

 

[Wizzardo]

set yor hard drives to never sleep see if it helps

already tried. It's not that.

thanks