Temperature? If you think maybe... If you are powering a lot on USB and Firewire, maybe the USB devices should go on a powered hub and the firewire devices should have power plugged in. And take the dictionary off the top of the mini.
Dar On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:02 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
