[X4U] beachball-of-death

[Zane H. Healy]

>For a discussion of beachball-of-death problems, see:
>http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html
>Item #'s 1, 2, and especially 3.

I'm curious about a problem I have with the beachball, when I'm 
clicking around in the multipane view (really the only one I use), 
I'll periodically drill down to a point on a disk, and then all of a 
sudden the beachball pops up and sits there for a few seconds.  What 
exactly is happening?  I have a feeling that it's reading the next 
few directories down (which on my system is probably pretty 
frightening for the OS :^)

The other time I have a problem with this is when the system is 
swapping really bad, especially if my copy of Safari has been largely 
swapped out to disk.  Personally I view the Virtual Memory system for 
Mac OS X as one of the worst I've seen, though I'm not sure if the 
problem is with the VM system, or if it's with the apps themselves.

		Zane

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