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I recently installed an SSD (m4 crucial latest firmware) with TRIM enabled on my late 2011 MBP 13".
I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.1, enabled FileVault 2 and everything was working fine for about 2 weeks until Finder just started randomly killing itself every time I mounted a DMG or just launched some random app.
At the time I was getting this error:
com.apple.quicklook.satellite[205]: [QL] Using too much memory (308 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting immediately to clean up.
Backed up all my files manually and did another clean install.
Installed a few applications, re-enabled FileVault, waited 2 days, everything was running fine.
Decided it was time to copy my files back over.
Whilst copying over Ethernet with Wifi enabled, I disabled the wifi, Finder hangs had to hard reset.
On reboot - error was back:
12/09/2012 23:24:27.883 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[172]: [QL] Using too much memory (300 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:29.883 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[172]: [QL] Using too much memory (616 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:29.943 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D[172]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/09/2012 23:24:29.943 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D) Throttling respawn: Will start in 2 seconds
12/09/2012 23:24:33.509 awacsd[69]: Exiting
12/09/2012 23:24:35.559 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100002 created
12/09/2012 23:24:36.108 com.apple.quicklook.satellite[205]: [QL] Using too much memory (308 MB), hit critical threshold (120 MB), exiting immediately to clean up.
12/09/2012 23:24:36.129 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook.satellite.DED6F2A5-B4D3-44C7-9EF6-86EF86AE217D[205]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/09/2012 23:24:39.824 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication[108]) Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
I cannot find anything similar on Google and for the life of me cannot figure out what is wrong.
It's giving me the same error on every reboot and every 3-7 minutes. It's only matter of time I suspect before Finder starts going nuts. It's also worth mentioning that very few applications are installed at the moment.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Touff
Posted 2012-09-12T22:54:52.323
Reputation: 178
1Have you tried
qlmanage -ror moving Quick Look plugins out of ~/Library/QuickLook/ and /Library/QuickLook/? – Lri – 2012-09-13T13:27:27.213Thanks for that Lri, unfortunately that hasn't solved it :S I checked the paths you mentioned but the QuickLook folder isn't present in ~/Library only in /Library – Touff – 2012-09-14T00:28:03.443