Question: is your Mac OSX Console.app showing kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero

[nanofunk.net]

Lots of people are reporting, they are experiencing a lagging OSX after upgrading to Mac OSX 10.7 Lion.

For me, yet this was a shaky ride on a MBP 2011, having issues that severely affected the usability of my system.

 

Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message)

see the blog entry on that topic

http://www.nanofunk.net/mac-osx-lion-10-7-...onsole-message/

 

while updating to adobe labs flash 11.0 player solves some freezing issues, still console.app is displaying errors every minute: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero

 

please take a minute to reproduce the issue and let's see if we can get a more detailed information on what is really going on:

 

1. Open Console.app
   
2. select "kernel.log" in the dropdown list on the left side
   
3. press "Clear Display" on the Menu Bar
   
4. navigate to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ with a browser of your choice and see if a console message shows up when doing so.
   

 

please post the results to the poll attached to this entry.

[vkd]

wot we supos to do about it, brains?

[nanofunk.net]

@vkd: please write your concerns to the Adobe Forums in the existing thread. This is the only way we can get Adobe to fix this fast.

[nanofunk.net]

we need more stats - who else is experiencing issues with flash? please fill out the poll.

 

1. a new updated post can be found on the nanofunk website.

2. the adobe bugbase bug report on can be found here

[bcobco]

me here:

 

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0

File: Flash Player.plugin

Version: 11.1.102.55

Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102

 

system is randomly unresponsive at all for one minute... im going to remove flashplayer

 

peace

[Flinty]

I get a kernel panic if I leave it running and Console.app gets flooded with the IOSurface error message.

 

It works fine though if I disable hardware acceleration in Flash.

[jonnyfive]

Poll is outdated: running flash Version: 11.2.202.235 in Chrome Version 19.0.1084.46

 

Based on this thread on Apple Support Communities I think this may be either a problem with some Apple OS Core framework Flash uses or a hardware issue: https://discussions....art=90&tstart=0

 

How many people in this thread have ATI 5xxx Cards?