Scott, >From my own experience I would totally agree with Bob. I'm also pretty sure >you can install a copy of your OS on a USB memory stick, you may need a >reasonable size stick, but they are not too expensive now and it should help >you determine where the error lies, you'll also see how fast the OS boots and >runs with a solid state drive too.
Some info here: http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/ss/usbflash_4.htm I would also check Activity Monitor > CPU tab, view Active Processes, sort by %CPU to see what is taking most CPU cycles, some apps can make your Mac go crazy, Adobe updater is my pet hate. I use TechTool Pro & ProToGo to keep my Macs running healthy and it certainly helped last time I had this issue, hope you resolve it soon. Paul On 2012-09-13, at 8:52 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Scott, your hard drive is failing. What happens is, when the OS detects a bad > block or sector on the hard drive, there are routines in place to attempt to > move the data to another location. This is a very high priority system event, > even higher than mouse clicks. You will not be able to interact with anything > while this is going on. > > It is recurring because the attempt has failed. You need to back up what you > can, I recommend a great utility called Chronosync which has a feature to > ignore errors, and then replace the drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is also a good > choice even though it is paid software, because it will make a full bootable > backup to another drive, and can make scheduled new and changed backups with > old file archiving. > > Bob > > > On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Hi List: >> >> Apologies for posting something other than a EULA opinion, but I'm wondering >> if someone might have some experience with an OS X system that is throwing >> random beachballs all over the place (10.6.8). Scroll a list of files in >> the Finder = beachball; launch an application = beachball; create a new >> email message = beachball. I've used Disk Utility to repair the disk and >> permissions (nothing major appeared to be found). I've run a test on RAM >> using MemTest, with apparently no problems found. I've been watching >> Activity Monitor to see if there's anything sucking up processor use -- >> nothing appears to be out of the ordinary (that I know of). I'm now trying >> an app called Onyx to see if it will find anything worth addressing. >> >> Short of reinstalling the system (days worth of labor), I'm at a loss for >> what else to try. The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight >> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the >> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain >> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor). >> >> Not sure if this means anything but apparently I can't reset PRAM on the >> system (Intel Mac Mini). I've tried several times with multiple keyboards, >> without success. I believe with Lion and above maybe this is supposed to be >> unnecessary, but it's supposed to work with Snow Leopard and earlier, yes? >> >> Anybody have any ideas for something else to look for? I know some of you >> do more low level tinkering than I. Restarts help for a while, but I can >> only restart the system so many times... >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX Design >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
