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I recently got Leopard up and running with my A8N-SLI Premium board. Everything seems to be pretty solid, but I noticed that my audio volume keeps resetting itself upon reboot. For example, if I set it to full volume and reboot, it will be…

I've searched for this all over the net, and no one seems to have asked, so... I've noticed that whenever I do a permissions repair in disk utility, I get these reports in the log: (see the screenshot posted. these forums aren't letting me…

“I'll give it a try too right now. I'll re-start the torrents after I reboot. That'll be the ultimate test for me to see if the system stays up despite torrents downloading.”

“Ugh. That makes sense since I was downloading 4 torrents at once. It's gotta be partially torrent related too because I've downloaded many many large files via web browser (FF and Saf) and it never happens when my speed goes high. For examp…”

“Unrelated, but a follow-up to that strange issue that I posted an hour ago here. I found out that my log wasn't showing anything before because it had "turned over". Anyway, I looked into my archived system logs and guess what I found as th…”

“Hmm interesting, this is what the osx86 wiki says: "[use it]..."if you experience stutter like (shutter) syndrome; usualy on dual core processors" Who knows...worth a try, I guess... A general site that talked about unix kernels said that t…”

“what exactly is that string meant to do (aside from it fixing your mouse) ?”

“Yeah, you're right, sorry. I kind of went off on a tangent there. I should post this in another thread. I've grown too comfortable blabbing on in this one, hehe.”

“Haha...more like we need to buy red bull for our computers No more slowdown issues right? Or maybe it would be too fast then Well I've been up for days now...I THINK. I am faced with a very strange issue now. I left my computer on since Sat…”

“"change pets" ... i like that one, it's almost better than "change girlfriends" ... almost please, no red button. i'm on 33 hours! this might be a record for me.”

“Just a quickie: 28 hours uptime, still good. Only ran one tiny torrent and then I closed Transmission immediately. Didn't seed. I thought I was doomed when I saw a couple of "tick" messages, but they stopped happening all together, and my m…”

“You're definitely right on perspective. So, I'm on hour 21-22 now and I just got done running some really stressful processes in Photoshop and Illustrator as a test. I took a look at my Console after a while, and to my dismay, I saw my firs…”

“Hmmm that made me think - I wonder what would happen if I ran Leo without EFI? The last time I did this was with 10.5.1 rev1 and I can't recall whether or not I had any performance problems. If I can clear a spare drive, maybe I can give it…”

“Man, you know a ton about RAM, I'll give you that! All I know is: makes shit run, and the more you have, the better the shit will perform, haha. Good to know, though. Thing is, I've only ever changed my memory settings ONCE and that was whe…”

“But you and I have the same RAM don't we? Kingston DDR 400 Dual-Channel? I may be wrong about the brand though. It's been a while since I looked at the chips. I have two 512MB sticks. When was the last time you had it on auto settings in BI…”

“So wait, how would I know what the spd settings ARE? Unfortunately, I no longer have Windows on this machine (took out the hard drive it was on). I can tell you this: I have my memory settings set to "auto" in BIOS. Does that mean that it w…”

“Ian, what is spd? Can you explain it for a memory noob such as myself? Or link us to the thing you were reading? Btw, here is my latest report: I'm coming up on 20 hours straight now. I'm still jerky-mouse-free! Still FireFox crash-free. No…”

“You find it freaky only because you ain't go it The rest of us find it a pain in the arrrrsseeee! On a side note, I just want to say a big W-T-F?!?!? I've been running now for 18 hours straight and still no problems! Is it torrents? This is…”

“Before I try the thing I mentioned previously, I do want to say that I'm up 14 hours here. Internet is on, Little Snitch is on, and I have every single app on my dock running at once, including CS3 apps, Office 08 apps, Linotype Font Explor…”

“@Ianxxx: Hiya Snow yep disconnect lan would be good and run for over 4 hours 3-4 hours seems to be the crucial amount of time. Put the system under as much load as you can be bothered, if you don't get any problems after 4 hours I thi…”

“@Ianxxx: To me it sounds like some kind of memory leak Yes! I was waiting for someone to say this because I wasn't sure if that was the correct term to use! (I know nothing about advanced crap like that, haha) Also, back in the days of…”

“Don't be too sure of that yet Ianxxx. I thought the same for a while, but... Last night, I turned Little Snitch off (to rule it out) and I was running Transmission to download a couple of torrents. I added an XVid torrent and started downlo…”

“here's a little something to try out, posted by bhast2: osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=676&page=1#Comment_10072 the theory is that cutting down on system logs will free up performance a bit. try it for yourselves, but give it some t…”

“what mobo/chipset do you have? and what kind of ram do you have? do you have any constantly running apps in the background (like little snitch)? at this point i've given up on finding a solution, and i just want to know what common link div…”

“Ok! I just googled the "lssave" thing and found out that it has to do with the same LaunchServices thing I was talking about a couple days ago. Coincidentally, I found an apple discussion link that once again pointed to that LaunchServices …”

“Last night I gave up on the nLan adapter after I discovered that it doesn't handle local network shares properly. So I went back to my original Leopard installation with skgeosx/Marvell lan adapter. System has been up 14 hours now and slow …”

“Snow, I just thought of something. Maybe when you changed your SMBIOS, it affected the way your MAC address is displayed to Time Machine, hence the MAC address error it's giving you? Perhaps when you changed it back, you didn't reload the k…”

“yet another update: i decided to install another fresh copy of 10.5.2 rev1 on a spare partition just now, but this time i am using nLan for ethernet (forcedeth) instead of my marvell (skgeosx), which I have now disabled completely in BIOS. …”

“yeah, i'm running the classic WRT54G router. MTU is set to auto (1500) in the router and auto (1500) in osx as well. i've always had these settings in osx since the days of tiger 10.4.8. what does your realtek adapter use for a driver? does…”

“Yes! I woke up this morning and began to believe it was network related too! Here's why: I can almost 100% guarantee that this problem will occur when I've left my computer on overnight with torrents running (this time I was using BitRocket…”

“damn, where did everyone go? anyone else have any news on this? i was running for a solid 21 hours without rebooting. no crashes, no slowdowns. then, suddenly, safari started crashing out of nowhere. the first two times it crashed, i could …”

“Just a little update: I've got music playing in iTunes, a large file transfer going on in Transmit, iChat open talking to someone, Safari with multiple windows, and Firefox just sitting idle (wow, it's not crashing!). I also just opened Fon…”

“@voyn1x: no, i don't have SMB turned on. @farcaller: it seems i recall the same keyboard issues. @snow: next time instead of force-restarting, do apple+shift+Q and it will allow you to log out. then you can log back in with GUI working agai…”

“well, i actually looked up the 10810 thing on google, and it's rare to say the least. apple dev's seem a bit clueless about it, so i'm guessing it's not common on "real" macs. there was a post on the apple forums that said this could have s…”

“well, bad news for me guys. i just tried stressing my system by opening all of the apps i have at once. at the same time, i was browsing with firefox (checking my email) when it suddenly crashed. i also noticed that the last app i clicked o…”

“i guess that would explain the erratic mouse movements”

“well, i guess the next logical question is: do you notice the slowdowns after said influence? or, there's always the classic half-baked question: ever tried using Leopard...ON WEEEEEED?”

“aaahahahahahah. oh man. i am actually loling. i needed that.”

“@Ianxxx: @agrafuese: Hahahaha. Part of me wants you to make a new thread specifically just to have that new heading, but part of me knows we have waaaay too many threads already for this topic (hence my manic gathering of them tod…”

“@Ianxxx: @Firewalk: lanxxx, my system never fits i built it myself.. Me too lol Well waddya know? ME TOO! Hey, this is the common element to bring us all together: we built our own hacks. So the answer must be to buy a Dell, right…”

“@Ian: Hahahaha. Part of me wants you to make a new thread specifically just to have that new heading, but part of me knows we have waaaay too many threads already for this topic (hence my manic gathering of them today).”

“IMHO, the verdict is still out on this one because it can take hours or days until this slowdown occurs, from my experience. i'm taking extra care not to restart my system so i can see if it is indeed memory related or not. i am also trying…”