I think I know exactly the 'double pump' issue you describe. My wife first noticed it and the WAF really plummeted! It occurs, for us, in just about any program where one mouse click is just not enough to put the cursor where we are pointing or the activate the radio button or accomplish what ever activity is desired. I have a G4 FP IMac with 1 GB RAM so, it doesn't seem that more RAM will help the issue
On Sep 12, 2004, at 5:55 AM, walter wrote:
I wasn't referring to scrollbar clicks. The need to repeat the click arises when selecting files in the Finder, or sometimes with menu commands. I'm afraid I don't remember the 'net forum in which the discussion I referred to took place (and someone used this term 'double pump'...), but basically it was pointed out that under OS X it can happen that one needs to repeat a mouse click because the system doesn't seem to have recognised it as such, for whatever reason. I wonder whether it has to do with virtual memory management. Maybe when switching between applications, although one application has been made active, there is a small delay before it can respond to commands. I have 768MB of RAM, but maybe a slight delay is inevitable. I'm not really sure. It doesn't happen to me often enough to detect a pattern. But the problem with the Aiport menulet is instead there alright. And it is annoying.
I found a thread on Macfixit discussing dialup problems after the 10.3.5 update. It's at <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040910080240174>. I did what they suggest, but the problem with the Airport menulet persists. In fact I've discovered there is a further bug. Often after waking up from sleep, or even after a fresh startup, if I try to connect via the menulet, I'll get the message that the modem is waiting to reset. The only way to get out of it seems to be to restart the Base Station.
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