Drives seem to fail more slowly these days when they do - they use to 'just go' but now with big buffers and error correction, the drives just try to jam the data over and over until they get it without errors - or eventually not.
However most of the drives of today seem really reliable - more so than even 4 years ago. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll second the heat check. If your mini is like mine it doesn't take much > to push it up into the area of cpu throttling. This is a 2011 model and > currently I have it on a laptop cooler with the bottom of the case nudged > open. Made a huge difference. Also installed fanspeed and adjusted > parameters so that the fan ramps up earlier and harder. > > Also, you mentioned using activity monitor to check cpu usage, have you > checked ram usage? Large amounts of swapping can cause beach ball behavior. > Look to see how may page ins have occurred as well as which processes are > eating the most mem. THough if no page-ins have occurred, swapping isn't > the problem. (page outs don't matter, that just indicates things being > shoved into memory) > > Finally, yep, could be a drive flaking out. Which would be even more > obvious when combined with page-ins. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode