I saw the spinning beach ball of death a lot with 10.0.4, and then less with 10.1.x and now with 10.2 I still see it, but not quite as often it seems. This is on a G4 with 768 MB of RAM. Nowadays it seems to just affect one app rather than the whole system... which isn't quite as bad, a force quit usually takes care of it. Still, it make one wonder if a reboot would help clear/clean things up. (Can you tell I've been using Macs forever? ;)
Pete
Sherm Pendley wrote:
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--
