[CUBE] Spinning beach ball

[James Knight]

Hello Rod

Well I don't know about peppermints. I get less ball/disk in 10.2 than in
10.1 but that's only because the OS waits longer before giving you the
spinner (to create the illusion of speed?). I still get long a wait every
time I try to do anything which uses the hard disk whilst ripping. The
process trying to use the hard disk gets stuck for 5+ seconds each time -
you can't for example bring other windows in the same app forward whilst it
is stuck.

This is not a VM issue I am sure - utilities like Memory Stick & iPulse say
that half my real RAM is free.

Cheers

James

on 4/12/02 3:27 pm, Rod at rod at eslickdesign.com wrote:

> 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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