For the last several months, I've noticed that every day or two
Entourage (11.2.1) on my machine will hang. I can work in other
programs no problem; just can't do anything in Entourage. After a few
minutes, the hang clears and Entourage operates perfectly normally.

It just happened today, and during the hang I launched Activity
Monitor. Seems the culprit is the Microsoft Database Daemon, which was
listed in red and "not responding" in Activity Monitor. When the
hang cleared the "not responding" message disappeared as well as
the red color (switched to normal black).

I understand the role of the daemon, but still don't think it should
cause the machine to hang like. I have rebuilt my database several
times, which is only 1.2 GB in size.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Microsoft Database Daemon Problem by Diane

Diane
Wed Mar 08 16:35:42 CST 2006

On 3/8/06 7:36 AM, in article
1141832194.620473.31020@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "dancedepot"
<kory@dancedepot.com> wrote:

> For the last several months, I've noticed that every day or two
> Entourage (11.2.1) on my machine will hang. I can work in other
> programs no problem; just can't do anything in Entourage. After a few
> minutes, the hang clears and Entourage operates perfectly normally.
>
> It just happened today, and during the hang I launched Activity
> Monitor. Seems the culprit is the Microsoft Database Daemon, which was
> listed in red and "not responding" in Activity Monitor. When the
> hang cleared the "not responding" message disappeared as well as
> the red color (switched to normal black).
>
> I understand the role of the daemon, but still don't think it should
> cause the machine to hang like. I have rebuilt my database several
> times, which is only 1.2 GB in size.

Usually, you see this type of behavior when Entourage is downloading mail.
I'm not sure how the daemon is causing the hang.

Do you have multiple daemons in Login Items? If you see more than one
Microsoft Database daemon delete them all and let Entourage recreate a new
one.

--
Diane Ross, Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Blog <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> lists the EHP as one of
the top five resources.