Recently, I was unable anymore to turn off AirPort on my Macbook Pro. Other people reported having the same problem, and it seems related to Snow Leopard. Some people had the reverse problem: They were not able to turn on AirPort. Here is the solution that worked for me: Open the following folder: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration Delete these […]
What process is causing DISK I/O
Sometimes, there is a lot of activity on my Macbook Pro drive, and I would like to find out what is causing all these Disk I/O’s. I found this thread that can help: http://superuser.com/questions/89266/whats-causing-all-the-disk-activity-on-os-x There are two suggestions on that thread. Either using ‘iotop -C 5 12′ or using ‘fs_usage’. What I would like to […]