Snow Leopard Performance Update 1.0

theheyes · 14 Oct 2009 at 23:47

This update addresses intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers.

Anyone else seen this appear in Software Update? I checked on Macrumors and even they didn't have anything, which is a first. Funnily enough my MacBook has been doing this but I blamed it on Firefox.

Spyhop · 14 Oct 2009 at 23:55

I've been getting odd ~20s system stalls on 10.5 recently :/

Edit: It's in system update for 10.5 too, so it's not just for Snow Leopard.

hyper_piper45 · 15 Oct 2009 at 00:02

Is this related to the 1.7 firmware issues?

Logsi · 15 Oct 2009 at 00:11

Thanks for the heads up.

Appeared on my Late 2008 2.8Ghz. Didn't appear on my 17" 2.33Ghz though?

Spyhop · 15 Oct 2009 at 00:12

NVIDIA chipset schtuff?

knowledge123 · 15 Oct 2009 at 11:13

wush said:
NVIDIA chipset schtuff?

More then likely :s I'll install this for my late 08 MacBook seeing as it's on the list. no chance of this being bad for my machine ?

Draeconis · 15 Oct 2009 at 12:05

I think it's the issue where some hard drives made my a particular manufacturer that shipped with the Macs had their own accelerometer built into the drive, which was conflicting with the accelerometer built into the computer. That caused the system to think it was being dropped occasionally, and thus parked the heads of the drive, causing the system to stop responding.

MacRS4 · 15 Oct 2009 at 17:08

It was supposed to address a pausing/stuttering issue that I wrote about here.

A lot of the reports seem to suggest it's worked too.. Took them long enough though :eek:

Feek · 15 Oct 2009 at 17:14

The update was offered to my MBP so I applied it, not that I noticed this issue anyway.

MacRS4 · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:31

I've applied it too... Not sure i've noticed anything either :confused:

On the other hand it's from Apple so it must do very cool & funky stuff and as I'm off out to the Covent Garden tonite it will obviously also make me more attractive to women.

Wins all round.

NickK · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:43

I feel deprived and inadequate.. no download for me

fanger · 19 Oct 2009 at 17:40

Seen it, downloaded it, installed it. Came down the pipe from "Software Update"
Haven't noticed any difference tbh.

Running a late 'o8 2.4 MacBook Pro here.

LordSplodge · 19 Oct 2009 at 19:20

No update for me...

Spyhop · 19 Oct 2009 at 19:30

The very-long-stalls problem was a major pain. Be glad if you don't need this!

Kainz · 19 Oct 2009 at 21:00

It appeared recently for my uMacbook too. I just thought it was related to older MBP hard drives. I hadn't had any problems with my machine before anyway.