At 2:12 PM -0400 10/23/02, Trey Harris wrote:
I occasionally see something similar, and it happens when I've got huge amounts of swap in use, relative to memory. This seems to happen most when doing stuff with the current fink versions of XDarwin, some ancillary X libs (dunno which one) and Freeciv. Something in freeciv leaks memory badly, both on the X side *and* on the Window Server side. (I've seen the WindowServer process have 250M+ mapped in, which on a 384M system is a lot) Doing anything slows the machine to a crawl, if things don't just start failing outright for lack of disk space as the swap file grows to a gig or more.In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. writes:You could have a bad hard drive. That might explain the behavior you are seeing. Wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X may work. But if it's the drive, you're not out of the woods.Yeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a spinning-beachball-of-death attack. One of those where a seemingly innocuous click on a menu starts the spinning ball in one app, and then over the next minute or two, the spinning ball "spreads" to every other app, you can't logout--you can't pull up a logout dialog--attempts to ssh in never respond, etc. This happens with some regularity to me, and the only answer seems to be to just powerdown. Am I the only one who sees this? It must happen once a month or more, though it seems to be somewhat rarer with Jaguar than it was with 10.1.
Might not be your problem, but you never know....
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