[Ti] I am tired of spinning beachballs

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:33  am, David Remahl wrote:

> On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Mark Swanson wrote:
>
>> Since I upgraded to 10.2.4 I see way to much of spinning beachballs 
>> and bouncing dock items.  Sometimes the first application boots 
>> quickly, but any subsequent application bounces for literally 
>> minutes.  My Mail application invariably gives me a spinning 
>> beachball  and after a considerable wait, tells me it can't locate 
>> the spelling checker and, of course, fails to input the last half of 
>> the sentence I was typing.  What did I do wrong.  Everything was 
>> snappy before.  Now it acts like its working on something much more 
>> important than what I want to do.  Ran disk utility (and fixed 
>> permissions) and Drive 10.  No problems.  Is there something I need 
>> to do.  Also, I waited a couple of weeks to mention this thinking 
>> that maybe things would correct themselves, or it would finish doing 
>> what was dominating its time.  Do I need to cast some "terminal" 
>> spells?
>
> One think I know can cause these application launch delays, is 
> problems with network devices, for example if someone turns off a host 
> computer whose SMB share you have mounted. That will cause subsequent 
> attempts to access that drive (and such access is triggered by 
> application launches - don't ask me why) to hang waiting for a time 
> out (usually between 100 and 120 seconds). The disk will appear to 
> have disappeared from the Finder, but is still mounted in /Volumes.

I agree with this -- this would be the first placed I'd look.

OSX has a long timeout period when it can;t find an internet connection 
that it had previously.

For example, if i take the ethernet cable out of the socket in the back 
of my Ti, shut it down (without changing locations) and then start it 
up again on a train, it will take an extra couple of minutes to start 
up with a beachball because it is still looking for that connection.

Could be this kind of issue. Then again it could be something else, 
since this hasn't changed in 10.2.4


>
> I have found _no_ other way to resolve the problem once it occurs, 
> than to reboot the computer. And I do know quite a few "'terminal' 
> spells" ;-).

Changing the location to one where all the network interfaces you 
aren't using are deactivated in network prefs might fix?

>
> / Rgds, David
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