[X4U] Beach Ball

[Michael Elliott]

Ralph,

I would check the logs in Console.app and see if there are any  
repetitive calls being made related to USB devices. This will usually  
be in the System.log if I remember correctly.  If you DO see that,  
try disconnecting the offending USB peripheral and see if that fixes  
the sluggishness problem.

I had a scanner once that went flaky.  The symptoms were nearly as  
you described... sluggish behavior  with no apparent reason.  Looking  
in the logs showed connection errors for this device occurring every  
second, constantly.

Michael


On May 7, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Ralph wrote:

> I have a "dome base" iMac that's developed a bad case of beach  
> balls. The cursor appears most often when I choose Print... from  
> almost any application. It also often comes up when I choose File >  
> Open... In addition, the machine seems sluggish generally. Here's  
> the configuration:
>
> iMac G4 800 MHz
> 768 MB RAM (maxed out)
> 18.24 GB free on 60 GB hard drive
> OS X 10.4.9 with latest update
>
> Disk Utility sees no problems. Suggestions?
>
> Ralph Jones

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20070507/51ab9e8b/attachment.html