On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:17 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:12 PM -0400 10/23/02, Trey Harris wrote:
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?
I occasionally see something similar, and it happens when I've got huge amounts of swap in use, relative to memory.I've never seen this happen - ever. I've been using OS X since DP4, and I'm still using X.I.V. I agree with Dan, that it's probably related to swap usage; I've got 1G of RAM, so my machine rarely (if ever) swaps.
sherm--
If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C?
