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>No need. Before the change, my mouse pointer was freezing up every few seconds, and I got "IOHIDSystem cursor update overdue. Resending." in the system log very frequently. This disappeared completely after disabling the pager. The difference in performance is stunning. For example, previously, opening a new tab in Chrome would not animate the tab line correctly, resulting in a weird "jolt" as the tab came into place. Now it's smooth.

Both sound like problems TOTALLY unrelated to the dynamic paging, that accidentally were solved by disabling it. Especially seeing that people with the paging enabled don't see any slowdowns such as these AT ALL.

My guess is some BS software left over from the previous installation, a SIBML plugin, a haxie, or something else faulty, that caused the unnecessary paging. If you have found and removed that, then you wouldn't have had other issues with the paging functionality.



I have all of the problems described in the article [1] except for spinning beach balls.

The IOHIDSystem problem is claimed to disappear if you do the sandbox fix, but it did not help in my case.

I don't have SIMBL plugins, I don't have extensions such as FUSE, or otherwise any weird software that could be the culprit.

I don't deny that it's possible that there is something else. But I have spent a lot of time on this already, and not found anything.

[1] http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...


I'm sure the paging toggle helped you in your case, but I'm also sure that it's not the OS X paging implementation that causes this "in general".

I.e that if someone doesn't disable paging, he will have the effects you describe.

Even if it's paging related it's probably something that effect specific users, not some overall fault in the implementation of paging.


For what it's worth, I tried re-enabling the pager, and a few hours later the IOHIDSystem cursor update overdue error started coming back around twice a minute, keyboard input speed started suffering from micro-freezes, and apps such as Chrome started lagging again.




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