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From:
Sherm Pendley
Date:
October 23, 2002 13:12
Subject:
Re: OS X meltdown
Message ID:
B43D0BFA-E6C3-11D6-91E4-0030656B202A@dot-app.org
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?
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