pauldy Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I have my eeepc 900a working pretty much flawlessly now on 10.6.1 just one thing kind of bothers me about if I got my install right or not. Whenever I am running an app it can suddenly become unresponsive for 2-10 seconds and I see beach balls randomly. One scenario I'm seeing is in slingplayer when I startup I can watch some video and decide I want to change the channel. Suddenly I see a beachball that goes for around 10 seconds and then I get control again. The whole time the video in the background is playing flawlessly and I can tab out of the app without issue. This can happen in other applications as well and when I switch from one application to another the new application may be responsive and when I return to the previous it may still be in an unresponsive state. Something I have noticed to is when I see this behavior the HD light is usually on or pulsing, I have 2GB of ram and am barely scratching 600MB of that when running apps so while swap was my first suspicion I can't imagine why the system would swap with almost a gig and a half free memory. Anyone have any ideas what might be the culprit and if this is pretty much standard or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhala_debru Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I have my eeepc 900a working pretty much flawlessly now on 10.6.1 just one thing kind of bothers me about if I got my install right or not. Whenever I am running an app it can suddenly become unresponsive for 2-10 seconds and I see beach balls randomly. One scenario I'm seeing is in slingplayer when I startup I can watch some video and decide I want to change the channel. Suddenly I see a beachball that goes for around 10 seconds and then I get control again. The whole time the video in the background is playing flawlessly and I can tab out of the app without issue. This can happen in other applications as well and when I switch from one application to another the new application may be responsive and when I return to the previous it may still be in an unresponsive state. Something I have noticed to is when I see this behavior the HD light is usually on or pulsing, I have 2GB of ram and am barely scratching 600MB of that when running apps so while swap was my first suspicion I can't imagine why the system would swap with almost a gig and a half free memory. Anyone have any ideas what might be the culprit and if this is pretty much standard or not? I have the same issue. Beachball in an app, app reported as unresponsive in console. But I thought I had a bad hdd, since from time to time I can hear some drive noises, while not doing any hdd access. I can hear it clearly as I have 15krpm sas drives that are rather noisy. I'll try disconnecting the drives I don't need to see if I still have this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldy Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Found the solution that was making mine so I hadn't used it in about 2 months here. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1299527 Looks like disabling the sleeping of the drive fixed my issue. I still have some random pauses but no where near the frequency i was seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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