1. 

   hugo
   July 28th, 2011 - 12:28

   we are having the same issue here. tested with macbook pro early 2011 and lion.
   flash player version 10,3,181,36 – google chrome canary.
2. 

   Turadg Aleahmad
   July 28th, 2011 - 23:17

   Same here. I hope Adobe or Apple can speak up. The dumps of these messages slow my system to a crawl and spin up the fan.
3. 

   El Duque
   July 30th, 2011 - 08:41

   I installed “Trim Enabler” and I am having temporary system freezes which I think is coming from Safari.

   I installed the Flash 11 beta, we’ll see how that goes. It’s definitely something Trim Enabler caused.
4. 

   aliquis
   July 30th, 2011 - 13:53

   I’ve had this problem intermittently for some months on a 5-year-old C2D MBP. Sometimes the screen just freezes (except for the mouse) and sometimes the screen goes black and everything seems to freeze. Hard reboot necessary. Thought Lion might cure it but if anything it’s got worse. Same buffer allocation message in console. Driving me insane.
5. 

   nanofunk
   July 31st, 2011 - 09:13

   @aliquis we had the same issue here which disappeared after installing flash beta 11.0 from adobe labs and using safari instead of chrome — chrome seems to come with its own version of flash, so switching to safari solves issues for now.
6. 

   aliquis
   August 2nd, 2011 - 16:45

   Thanks nanofunk wil give it a try. Only use Safari anyway, but have installed new Flash.
7. 

   aliquis
   August 6th, 2011 - 12:24

   The new Flash beta seems to have reduced the problem but not eradicated it. Just had a freeze right in the middle of writing an email in Apple Mail. Very strange.
8. 

   Andrei
   August 6th, 2011 - 20:21

   Reproducible.
9. 

   JP Hansen
   August 10th, 2011 - 01:23

   New beta is out..
10. 

    Rainer
    August 15th, 2011 - 17:48

    Have that problem with frequent temporary freezes but think that it is not flash related. Have flash-blocker installed in Safari.
    I do not see any related message in Console. Sometimes the CPU fan spins up, but activity monitor does not show any load peaks.
11. 

    dd
    August 15th, 2011 - 19:29

    this happens to me and i don’t have flash installed. seems to happen whenever i use facebook or skype for more than a few minutes… it’s terrible and my mba (mid 2008, clean lion install) is pretty much unusable! i’m gonna take it to the apple store and see what they say…
12. 

    rick
    August 16th, 2011 - 10:27

    I’m seeing weird freezes and similar messages in kernel.log. Do any of you ever have terminal open when this happens? I notice i can `ls` and see files, but trying to read a file gives me an input/output error.
13. 

    nanofunk
    August 16th, 2011 - 10:32

    @rainer: do you have an SSD or TRIM enabler?
    @dd it can also be another adobe product, such as adobe AiR. what does Console.app say?
    @rick: yes, i have console open. what do you mean with “io error”?
14. 

    Mo
    August 18th, 2011 - 21:21

    Hello. Thanks for the post!

    I updated to the latest Flash Beta 11d1.98, with Chrome 13 and 10.7.1 on MBA (no TRIM Enabler). I have yet to have this issue again, but I’ll report back if it happens!

    Thanks again,
    Mo
15. 

    nanofunk
    August 23rd, 2011 - 12:13

    @mo: keep in mind that chrome uses its own internal flash player! check the version here: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
16. 

    aliquis
    August 23rd, 2011 - 14:02

    I thought that the Flash 11 beta had solved this, but I now think not. To test I uninstalled Flash completely and after a couple of hours the freeze recurred (while I was using Powerpoint). No buffer allocation size error in Console. If fact there is nothing at all in Console recorded from the time of the freeze or immediately before.
17. 

    Bryce
    September 27th, 2011 - 18:54

    Just reporting the same error that other users have had, even after updating to flash player 11 beta. Fans are spinning like crazy and temperatures are up pretty high. I’m going to try uninstalling flash player, but this isn’t a solution; its just a stopgap measure even IF it’s successful.

    here’s a sample:

    Sep 27 07:35:20 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: HFS: Very Low Disk: freeblks: 0, dangerlimit: 77
    Sep 27 07:36:35 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: default_pager_backing_store_monitor – send LO_WAT_ALERT
    Sep 27 07:37:00 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 07:37:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: macx_swapoff SUCCESS
    Sep 27 07:37:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: default_pager_backing_store_monitor – send LO_WAT_ALERT
    Sep 27 07:37:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 07:39:17 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: macx_swapoff SUCCESS
    Sep 27 07:46:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 07:53:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 07:55:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:43:38 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:44:13 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:44:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:46:40 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:47:19 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Sep 27 09:47:49: — last message repeated 2 times —

    I have tons of space on my hard drive, and tons of free ram too. I’m not sure if it’s related, but “fseventsd” in Activity Monitor is using a HUGE amount of virtual memory (1.52GB). Repaired disk permissions on my drives, verified my disk and the external as well. Still nothing.
18. 

    nanofunk
    October 24th, 2011 - 09:21

    Bryce, does it still happen with flash player 11 final and the 10.7.2 update?
19. 

    Eric
    October 25th, 2011 - 01:50

    I have the issue but I never installed flash on my Lion MBP. But I have Chrome, so there is a copy somewhere…
20. 

    DeanDMX
    October 29th, 2011 - 20:17

    I’m still getting these messages on 10.7.2 with Flash version 11.0.1.152 installed.
21. 

    Jan
    November 15th, 2011 - 13:33

    The reason for them is problems with Flash, I get most of these error when using Youtube.
    Solution: join HTML5 project on youtube – youtube will use HTML5 rather than flash to play videos. At this point using the system becomes bearable.

    Then to reduce these errors that are left try using OmniWeb instead of Chrome/Forefox/Safari. With Omniweb I dont get a sigle error of this type!
22. 

    Mark Twang
    November 30th, 2011 - 11:05

    30/11… still the same issue here (OS X Lion 10.7.2, Safari 5.1.2, Flashplayer 11.1.102.55).
23. 

    LCPGUY
    December 4th, 2011 - 23:03

    I must agree with Jan. When I switched to OmniWeb, the messages disappeared. IMHO, OmniWeb is the best browser anyway, so why not use it instead of Safari?
24. 

    R Seipp
    December 19th, 2011 - 00:36

    I’m having similar problem with Lion & Chrome and only when I try to play the Chrome widget “Dead Frontier” and a Facebook game that requires the Unity web player plug-in. My Intel Mac-Mini dead crashes with no warning and then restarts. The only notification I get that a crash took place is in Console:

    12/18/11 5:02:27.000 PM kernel: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

    Chrome and any other programs I had running automatically start back up.
    Chrome, though, at the top asks me if I want to reopen the page that crashed–I say No-of course.

    Also it that Unity plug-in crashes in Safari and Firefox too, when I try to play the Facebook game Margaritaville. It’s only a Beta version so it’s not a browser problem in THAT case. Regardless, Chrome and Lion behave STRANGELY. I get weird warning messages occasionally about going to well-known safe websites like Google that it might not really be Google. I hit “ignore” but it is annoying. But if I restart my mac warnings go away for about 6 hours.
25. 

    nanofunk
    December 23rd, 2011 - 17:38

    more than 6 months after the issue was reported, (and we have Apple Mac OS X 10.7.2 and 10.7.3 in beta) there is still no update on this issue from Adobe. Please write your concerns to the Adobe Forums in the existing thread to have them fix the issues! Especially for SSD owners this is unacceptable!
26. 

    Lawrens
    January 29th, 2012 - 10:57

    I’ve started getting this error recently just 2 days ago, I’ve never had this problem before, and the only thing I’ve changed was hooking up a new Wacom tablet (pen & touch), installed its software/drivers, it might’ve installed another program called Adobe Air (I really don’t know what that is but I’ve seen a pop up before that I closed).

    I’m using Chrome also, since it auto updates (along with flash), I don’t know if an update started messing with my system.

    My kernel_task will grow in size until it reaches 300-400mb and would slow my system to a crawl until I terminate Chrome and its flash plugin, then its memory usage will go back to 200, so as many have pointed out, it’s flash related.

    I’d just like to post this comment because for me, I’m pretty sure this problem started popping up just 2 days ago after I installed a new wacom tablet, I’m aware some probably doesn’t have the tablet hooked up, but I thought maybe it could help pinpoint the problem and maybe it has to do with the input devices others have. What I’m going to do is uninstall the wacom driver, unhooking it and see if the problem continue after a few hours.
27. 

    Lawrens
    January 29th, 2012 - 11:02

    Well the problem still persist after uninstalling its drivers and unplugging my tablet, sigh.
28. 

    Emily
    February 12th, 2012 - 04:18

    Same problem. My laptop heats up a lot too due to it, and slows down drastically sometimes.
    I have 10.7.2 installed.
    Ugh, it’s sooo annoying.
29. 

    XPaine
    February 24th, 2012 - 21:06

    still the same issue here (OS X Lion 10.7.3, Safari 5.1.3, Flashplayer 11.2.202.197)
30. 

    rentgeeen
    March 5th, 2012 - 07:17

    I made a huge effort drill down what is causing the problem:

    1. APPLE

    2. ADOBE (flash)

    1. Using Snow Leopard SSD (Vertex 3) drive – video on SKYPE freezing after 1 hour.
    2. I got freeze on movies.
    3. Returned SSD to OCZ that Apple found that SSD has SMART failure.
    4. Put original HDD to MaBook Pro (2011) – Installing LION
    5. Installed Lion on it – Freezing again
    6. APPLE vs ADOBE
    7. I noticed that I am freezing on that error mostly on videochat by using google talk plugin and can see the error in the console.
    8. By reading forums I assume its a flash, Uninstalled Flash.
    9. Still having the errors in the console – Assuming its APPLE – but not going to APPLE STORE – GENIUS knows nothing.
    10. As I am developing website I got an idea that if even you uninstall flash still you can get the script by inserting it into HTML – I went to one of these websites: VERDURA.COM – you would say nice HTML 5 + JQUERY – NO FLASH and as I am keep refreshing it I am getting error in the Console, so I am thinking what is wrong.
    11.Copied the code and removed all html except scripts and 1 of them was having SWF shockwave plugin.
    12. Made HTML file with that 1 line of code and keep refreshing it and getting the error in console – NOW IT IS FOR SURE FLASH to be exact SHOCKWAVE!!!!

    13. Break Point

    Major Question: Why I am getting errors when the Flash is gone?
    Answer: Looking for shockwave plugins, since CHROME is using own separated plugins I do

    “chrome://plugins/”

    Look what I have found even flash is gone:

    http://cl.ly/1b3z3j1R1r0j44201H19

    I disabled it, NO ERRORS SINCE THEN! Not even safari, firefox, chrome, console is clean.

    Hope it helps.
31. 

    rentgeeen
    March 5th, 2012 - 07:28

    I replaced plugin with older version:

    /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/17.0.963.56/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin

    previously had Version: 11.1.102.62

    Replaced with and all works

    Version: 11.1.102.55
    Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
32. 

    rentgeeen
    March 5th, 2012 - 07:42

    Correction to previous comment

    Additional info:

    I replaced plugin with older version and it doesnt work, you can try, but disabling it works. Maybe there is an older version and that can work.

    /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/17.0.963.56/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin
33. 

    nanofunk
    March 12th, 2012 - 14:55

    just tested with the current release Adobe Flash Player version 11.1.102.64 on Apple Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Macbook Pro Quad i7): same issues and errors still. Flash sucks big time!
34. 

    rentgeeen
    March 24th, 2012 - 22:42

    Try this turn off all browsers and launch photo booth. Click Effects and click arrows to browse effects. What do you see in the console?

    Photo booth is not flash…
35. 

    nanofunk
    April 4th, 2012 - 18:25

    rentgeen: as i don’t have photobooth (de-installed it because i really don’t need it) i cannot perform your test. what are your results? same error message? if so, that error is not limited to adobe flash, it is a “regular” system error. although flash should not throw that error, or at least not spam our syslogs.
36. 

    rentgeeen
    April 4th, 2012 - 18:39

    nanofunk:

    Thats what I am saying, its not only about flash is about component how is basically flash and photo both using and that part is bad, I think its graphic card related, so maybe its a kext for card not sure, basically when you do that Photo Booth procedure above, there are 9 images and you click arrow for next effects you gonna get 9 IO errors 1 for each frame – Photo booth its not flash.
37. 

    rentgeeen
    April 4th, 2012 - 19:00

    Screenshot:

    http://cl.ly/3K3M151W2b1m1W2V0j1s
38. 

    rentgeeen
    April 4th, 2012 - 20:08

    For example I just bought macbook air for 1 friend, it came, turned it on an immediately tried photo booth – 9 IO Surface Errors and I didnt even install anything yet….

    Steve would be angry :)
39. 

    max
    April 18th, 2012 - 04:13

    i have the same problem, my kernel log shows “kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error” and “IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero” , i am not very sure they’re the same problem.
40. 

    Kevin Christian
    April 23rd, 2012 - 20:10

    Please keep up the good work ~ looking forward to hearing more on this problem

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