mac tech question
Aug. 25th, 2005 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
substituteMac heads -
My shiny new Powerbook is a delight, but it does something that I hadn't noticed previously. I'll be working along typing or browsing and suddenly it will just grind to a halt doing something like updating articles in netnewswire or starting a program or copying files. I get the beach ball in that app, whatever it is, and nothing happens for quite a while, maybe 15 to 30 seconds. If I can see load it's normal, and the machine has enough RAM, and doesn't appear to be obviously I/O bound (no disk grinding).
Any ideas what's causing this periodic hangup? It's so frustrating, especially since the machine itself is so fast and everything else about it is great.
My shiny new Powerbook is a delight, but it does something that I hadn't noticed previously. I'll be working along typing or browsing and suddenly it will just grind to a halt doing something like updating articles in netnewswire or starting a program or copying files. I get the beach ball in that app, whatever it is, and nothing happens for quite a while, maybe 15 to 30 seconds. If I can see load it's normal, and the machine has enough RAM, and doesn't appear to be obviously I/O bound (no disk grinding).
Any ideas what's causing this periodic hangup? It's so frustrating, especially since the machine itself is so fast and everything else about it is great.