[X4U] Spinning Beachball

[Jeff Carruthers]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Dan A. Currie wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 2 - 120 GB and 1 -  
> 200 GB HDD / NETSCAPE 9.0.0.6 / OS X.4.11 and of late my beachball  
> has been spinning a lot more that ever before.
>
> It spins for no rhyme or reason that I can discern - I click on a  
> folder on my desktop it spins, I open an application that I  
> routinely use and it spins and the same with an application that I  
> rarely use, I click on a website in Yahoo or any other search engine  
> or browser and it spins and I click on an image and it spins, I  
> click to send email and it spins!!!
>
> This is new to me and I need some guidance.
>
> Suggestion and opinions welcomed!!
>
> Dan Currie
Dan: sometimes with my G4 tower this happened when the internal drives  
had to spin up. It was quite annoying at times. One option would

to uncheck "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in the Energy  
Saver/Sleep window in System Preferences and see whether that helps.

The other thing to check is whether your hard drive is getting full.  
There should be at least 10% (preferably a lot more) of empty space,  
otherwise things slow down when the computer accesses memory written  
to disc.

Jeff

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