On Sep 14, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Sep 13, 2009, at 2:28 PM, MaGioZal wrote: > >> >> The problem of the "spinning beach ball" doesn't occur with 10.4 >> itself, but >> with the applications that run over it. > > which are waiting for "disk i/o, paging memory, or network data." > > The SPOD is the Mac's way of telling you "I haven't crashed, but this > process is taking a lot longer than I expected, and I can't do > anything until I get what I asked for, so I'm letting you know about > it."
Heh... started my Powerbook this morning and got the spinning pizza/ beachball as things got up to speed. Then... the spinning just stopped! Just the static whirligig in the middle of the screen. Thinking the worst, I tried finding my mouse pointer and some how the SPOD had become the NSPMP (Non Spinning Pizza Mouse Pointer). Never saw =that= happen before... no pointing hand, no arrow... just the round colored object. It worked fine as a mouse pointer, but it was damn odd!!! Amanda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
