[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Luke Rademacher]

Have you run any cron scripts lately? repaired permissions? how full  
is your Boot HD?

Do you have Tech Tool or Diskwarrior?

It almost sounds like to me is you are experience some major Pageouts  
which would normally indicate not enough RAM. but you list 2GB RAM  
which is the max for the MDD Dual G4. so I wonder if your Main OSX  
Boot HD is getting full. When the Boot HD gets too full you can get  
issues like the spinning beach ball because the OS uses part of the  
Boot HD for Virtual Memory use.

Its also a great idea to Routinely run Repair Permissions and your  
Daily, Weekly, and Monthly cron scripts. The App I love which is free  
is YASU. You can get it from MacUpdate or Versiontracker. With YASU  
you can clear out Cache files, empty Logs, etc. All these logs and  
such build up and can bog down your system.

If nothing changes after that, then I'd be almost tempted to say you  
got a Trojan. Its hard to believe about Viri on a Mac but its  
becoming more prevalent.

Peace,

Luke Rademacher
Liquid Zone Graphics
Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/CDRW,  
Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD.
MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/RW  
Superdrive, Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11, Classic Mac OS 9.2.2.
Intel Celeron 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ubuntu Linux 8.04
5.5th gen 80GB Enhanced Video iPod
Canon CanoScan 8400F
Canon Pixma iP450

On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Dan A. Currie wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 2 - 120 GB and 1 -  
> 200 GB HDD / NETSCAPE 9.0.0.6 / OS X.4.11 and of late my beachball  
> has been spinning a lot more that ever before.
>
> It spins for no rhyme or reason that I can discern - I click on a  
> folder on my desktop it spins, I open an application that I  
> routinely use and it spins and the same with an application that I  
> rarely use, I click on a website in Yahoo or any other search  
> engine or browser and it spins and I click on an image and it  
> spins, I click to send email and it spins!!!
>
> This is new to me and I need some guidance.
>
> Suggestion and opinions welcomed!!
>
> Dan Currie
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