[CUBE] Spinning beach ball

[Rod]

James,
To clarify the spinning beach ball; you are referring to the peppermint
new in 10.2 as opposed to the disk in 10.1? I have the same problem with
Illustrator 10.0.3. I blame it on the latest update and Adobe's attempt
to have Illustrator bloated with Photoshop features. The use of virtual
memory or cache seems the most likely culprit. Remember with the beginning
of OS9 VM became a necessary feature? I think Apple has kept the VM feature,
but dumbed it down so you have no knowledge of it.
Perhaps someone more knowledgable on the workings of the OS can verify.

>I know 448Mb is not the world's goods but there are no pageouts happening.
>If I thought it would make a difference I would get more RAM. I've tried
>erasing disk, updating drivers & doing a 100% clean install of 10.2.2 (and
>earlier versions) plus iTunes 3.0.1 (and earlier) and Office X (with/without
>updates). Nothing else at all. And still I can reproduce the problem
>straight after a cold boot. So there is no fragmentation, disk problem or
>privilege issue here. All I know is that the problem starts when I'm ripping
>a CD and then try to use the internal HD eg when launching an app or when
>Entourage tries to display an email. By the way - this is with a clean
>install of Office and a new identity - no old databases are imported.
>
>What I do find from using the Top command in the Terminal is that a process
>is 'stuck' when I'm getting the beachball. I don't know which process though
>- the display will say something like Processes: xx total, y running, 1
>stuck. However the process list doesn't give me a clue as to which process
>is stuck, whatever that means. If you can give me any pointers on this I
>would be grateful.
>
>Thanks for your ideas
>
>James
>
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