2009/7/28 Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: [...] > Axel, I still see exactly the same freezes with my test (watch > ActivityMonitor while a 4 Gb file is created with dd). At the exact > point the cache fills up all my available memory I get the first UI > freeze (of a few seconds). The freeze repeates itself some other times > before the dd operation completes. Did a build yesterday and couldn't see any hickups in ActivityMonitor drawing where it pauses and then draws a straight line to the next measure point level. So the change seems to has fixed this for me. Bruno, could you let me get the exact "dd-test-line" for reproduction? Michael