[CUBE] Spinning beach ball

[Arturo Pérez]

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:29  AM, James Knight wrote:

> No, no paging is going on, I have 448Megs of RAM and various utilities 
> (eg
> Memory Stick, iPulse) show that more than half is free.
>
> So that's not it.
>
> I am using an external FireWire drive to rip to. But when launching an 
> app
> or doing anything else involving the internal drive, it all starts 
> stalling.
>
> Thanks anyway
>
>
Intriguing problem then.  When's the last time you run a disk 
diagnostic?  Like
Norton's or something?  Maybe it's something as simple as fragmentation?