MAC OS Task Delays (page outs - spinning beach ball)?
I know there have been many threads with this issue. Upon reading up on this, it appears to be a RAM issue – but hear me out.
I recently upgraded the memory on my MacPro 4,1 (running Snow Leopard 10.6.8), with 12 new GBs of RAM from OWC. I threw one of the former 1GBs in the remaining slot, and am now running a total of 13GBS of RAM. Overdue, but a vast improvement. Machine was running great for about 2 weeks, until yesterday morning.
I now have a 4 to 5 second delay (beach ball), on most types of tasks. It appears to be random, but some repeated tasks produce no delay. I understand that when my Mac runs out of RAM it uses HD space to complete tasks, but with 13GBs of RAM, I'm not even close. I opened the Activity Monitor, and it is not showing anything close to insufficient RAM in the monitored activity.
So, what could be producing the random delays when it's not related to insufficient RAM?
Self reply. It would seem this issue has be resolved for now, but I can't tell you definitively what the problem was. I took the following steps for what it's worth to those reading: 1. I removed the extra 1GB RAM module, and went with the 12 GB (3 x 4GB). 2. I restarted from the installation disc, and ran Utilities – performing Permissions, and disc Verify. Upon restart to HD OS, it appeared that the problem was still there, but after about 10 min. it wasn't. Back to normal operating speed. Go figure.
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I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?
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I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book.
There is no such Trojan or other malware known today that will do that using OS X nor has there ever been one. The most probable explanation is that somebody hacked into your e-mail account on the server, so you should change that password to something stronger right away. If it had come from your Mac then there would almost certainly be copies of those messages in your Sent Mail mailbox. -
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My macbook pro since this afternoon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click…
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Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
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Spinning Beach ball in Pages 5.2
I know there are other posts about the spinning beachball in Pages but the situation here is a little different to what others have experienced. At a small school I work at, since upgrading to Pages 5, there have been huge problems with the spinning beach ball in Pages 5. This did not occur in Pages 4. I use Pages 5 all the time at home with no issues and while at other schools. But as soon as I arrive in the school here and the computer connects to the network, the Beachball starts. This morning, I just wanted to type up some brief notes for a meeting. As soon as I started typing up the notes, the Spinning Beachball showed up and started spinning. You can keep on typing with nothing being added to a line and after 20 secs or so, your typing suddenly catches up and then it starts spinning again. I switched the wireless off and as soon as I did that, I could type normally. When I switched the wireless back on to print the notes, the spinning beach ball started up again. This is the ONLY programme this happens with and it didnʻt happen with Pages 4. It has to be network related and obviously Pages is trying to connect to get something from the Internet but what and where? Teachers are getting really frustrated. Any suggestions to stuff I could try would be much appreciated. It would be really great if Apple could sort out Pages and return it back to the great programme it was!
Thanks Peter but with all the school laptops, desktops and teacher laptops, which have all been upgraded, it would be too big a task. The most distressing thing of all is that I had just got the Principal using Pages a while back, as I showed her how quick Pages 4 was to create school policy and planning documents and when they upgraded all the school documents to Pages 5 (Iʻm not a permanent school staff member, only a once a week classroom IT support person) the documents all went to custard where they had used linked Text boxes. I have written a few publications using Pages 4, and I loved it as a fast, clean, easy to use publisher for simple stuff (Iʻll be using Pages 4 this weekend to do a Centenary booklet - I use Indesign for professional stuff) but the two things that now drive me mad is the lack of linked text boxes and the fact you canʻt slide the page thumbnails on the left hand side to rearrange page order as you could in Pages 4. Iʻve heard that a lot of this was removed so they could do the iOS version and make them the same for synching and that the features will come back, but I wish it was sooner rather than later. It is interesting to read of important institutions like Doctors surgeries who have had all their records mucked up by the changes. After doing PD with the staff on using Pages and encouraging them to use it (with the Principalʻs enthusiasm and endorsement) at this school, they have gone back to using Word and I dare not mention Pages again! I hope Apple reads this!
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Pages spinning beach ball for 2 minutes opening document
Every time I open a pages or numbers document I get a spinning beach ball for a very long time.
Some examples:
36kb pages doc: 56sec to open first time; close, then reopen - 16sec.
115kb numbers doc: 1min46sec to open;
117kb pages doc: 2min29sec to open;
That's ridiculous, right? Or is it like this for everyone? This is after a FRESH install of lion on brand new SSD (everything else works great), and a FRESH install of iWork '09. It was the same with the migrated version of the app - I reinstalled it, including fresh plist files, thinking that would help. No difference. I routinely repair permissions as well.
Here's my specs:
Mac Pro 1.1 2.66 GHZ
6GB RAM
SSD Boot drive
Home folder on seperate drive (no latency with any other apps)
iWork '09 Up to date (pages 4.1 for example)
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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I tried to deactivate iClouds "Documents and Data" feature and thought this might solve the problem, but now I always get the spinning beachball - with "Documents and Data" checked or unchecked
Btw: I have a OWC SSD and wonder if the spinning beachball might have something to do with the SSD? But why does it only occur with some apps? -
my mac is running slow, the spinning beach ball constantly appears. it seems that when i am in the apple store with fast wifi its a bit better. genius at the apple store checked the hard drive, it's all fine. what can it be? can it be a software issue with the wifi?
also i noted that it has only been doing this since quite recently, before it was fine
please help!First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|timed? ?o' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Reset the System Management Controller.
Run Software Update. If there's a firmware update, install it.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a portable computer, check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane. See whether there's any change.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the View menu or the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for User, System, and Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the Memory tab. What value is shown in the bottom part of the window for Swap used?
Next, select the Disk tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in andWrites out.)
Step 4
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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I accidentally quit my CC on my Macbook pro and now the cloud icon is grayed out and every time I hover over it with the mouse I get the spinning beach ball of death on the icon. I have no idea how to open it because when I use spotlight search to open it it gives me a message saying "Creative Cloud is not open anymore" help!
Since you didn't include any pertinent info such as the Mac model and OS version you are running, here is some general information:
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
Depending on which OS yours came with originally - and which OS you are now running - you would either need your original install disks - you can call Apple for replacements by giving them your serial number. Or you may be able to reinstall the OS by using recovery (again, depends on which model/which OS). -
Hi, I have an early 2008 Mac Pro which has re-booting problems.
Processor speed is: 2.8
Memory: 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
2 x 28GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
I am running OSX Yosemite Version 10.10
My Mac Pro keeps re-booting. Last year I had to replace my graphics card. My original card was the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 255MB, and that is what I have now. At this precise moment my Mac Pro is running perfectly, except that it is slow and the spinning beach-ball keeps appearing. I have managed to do some work with the disk utilities, verifying, cleaning and partitioning. Some errors were found and when it was cleaned this seemed to help my Mac Pro to function properly. Although I am able to use my Mac Pro now, from day to day I still experience re-boot problems. Also quite unexpectedly my mac dictionary has an error, it closed itself down and will not open at all, I had the message to say that a report will be sent to Apple.
I have tried starting my computer with an external hard drive fitted via a USB cable, I use for back-ups. This worked and I was able to wipe my hard drive clear and replace all info from the back up I had done only a few days ago.
This worked for a few days and then the same problem started again.
I am beginning to wonder if I need to buy a new hard drive.
If there is anyone who has some answers to help me solve my problem, I would be most grateful.
RobertWhen you have the beachball activity, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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Duplicate see [/questions/960928]
Im going insane with the spinning beachball on mac when using Firefox v21.
It happens several times per minute with something as simple as choosing the next field on a page or even scrolling down the page using the scroller on the right hand of the page.
Im on a laptop which has os 10.6.8 installed and the laptop has 8gig of ram and a 2.8ghz intel core 2 duo processor.
On previous versions of Firefox I used to get "unresponsive script" warnings with the option to stop it. These warnings would pop up and never give the option to "always stop an unresponsive script AND never take total control of my computer trying to get the script to respond"
There is no option to block the script on the site its coming from.
I did have a block script plug in but no sites work properly if java script isnt enabled.
With Firefox21 I dont get these pop up warnings any more.
I have a lot of tabs open and when the spinning beach ball happens too often I quit firefox and open it again. It remembers my tabs but doesnt load till I click on the tab.
Despite this Firefox will start stalling and showing the beachball spinning only after a few new pages are opened.
It is enfuriating and I dont consider the software to be working properly.
Im wondering has something gottten corrupted in the System Library when firefox installs or if there is a compatability problem with versions of Firefox, my OS10.6.8, Java, Flash?
I can only look at one tab at a time - I WOULD LOVE IF THERE WAS AN OPTION TO
"NOT GIVE ANY RESOURCES TO OTHER TABS WHICH ARENT BEING VIEWED"
I used to use a plug in called Pause All Tabs which was brilliant and gave me back control of my computer. I cant get it for FF21
So what can I do? Use Chrome instead?Locking as duplicate. Please see and continue with [/questions/960928]
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MacBook Pro is slow in loading pages. Lots of spinning beach balls. What to do?
MacBook Prois slow in loading pages from the internet. Lots of spinning beach balls. What should I do?
Lots of similar stories and help in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard (and Lion) forums for 10.6.x or 10.7
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Lightroom 3+ (Mac OSX) Spinning Beach Ball on Import only?
Hello --
When I first starting using Lightroom 3 on my 27" quad-core iMac, detection of an inserted memory card (Compact Flash or SDHC) was instantaneous. It's one of the things that really attracted me to Lightroom -- plug in, and go!
Sometime after around 3.2 or so, the spinning beach ball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wait_cursor) started appearing for about 60 to 120 seconds every time I inserted a card. I first thought it might be the cheap $10 Compact Flash USB 2.0 reader I was using, so I invested in a firewire reader from Synchrotech, since it appears the Lexar one has disappeared off of the market. No change.
Here are some other facts:
- This happens every time I import with no exception.
- Once the spinning beach ball goes away, performance is as expected (very fast).
- The spinning beach ball almost never appears anywhere else in Lightroom.
- Outside of Lightroom, the finder recognizes the cards immediately after inserting, and I can get to the files and copy them without any issue.
- I have tried Sandisk and Lexar cards of a variety of speeds and sizes. No difference.
- The problem happens with catalogs that already have images and brand new catalogs (no difference in performance).
- My catalogs are stored on local disk, and the photo files are located on a fileshare over GB ethernet. This environment has been the same before and after I experienced the spinning beach ball during import.
- During the spinning beach ball, the network switch is "bored," so I have a pretty good idea that the Mac isn't trying to scour or index the fileshare.
- I have updated to the latest: the just-released Lightroom 3.4. No change.
- I have tried both the "automatically bring up the Import dialog on card insert" as well as the manual approach where I have to click on Import in the Library module. I have also tried going into the Import section and then inserting a card. All have the same effect -- a guaranteed beach ball when Lightroom figures out a card is there.
I hope someone else is experiencing this issue and can give me a tip or two to make it go away. Two minutes to wait for the system to do absolutely nothing every time I put in a card is ridiculous!
-- Justina lock file is created every time LR is opened. It stops the database being accessed by more than one application. Sometimes, due to an improper shut down of LR the lock file remains. As you have discovered, in this case, you cannot open LR until you delete the lock file.
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Spinning beach ball since I upgraded Mac OS to 10.6.4
I upgraded the OS for my MAC to 10.6.4 and now I frequently get a spinning beach ball. I never had this problem with previous versions of OS.
I had been seeing increasing incidences of this. It was getting very annoying. FWIW, I'm using FF 6.0 and 10.6.8. This wasn't where FF was just taking time downloading. I'd get the spinning beach ball for 15-20 seconds BEFORE it started actually downloading, and frequently when I was already on a web page, and just scrolling down.
I tried disabling all plug-ins and extensions. No help.
Here's how I fixed it.
(1) Fix permissions and
(2) Completely remove and restore Firefox. Remove all FF preferences (trash user/Library/Firefox), the application, and re install the application.
Yes, be sure you preserve your bookmarks, ideally through Xmarks, and you'll have to redo all your passwords. Small price to pay.
After I did this, I had NO problems. Spinning beach balls are gone.
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When I launch PS CC, after a 15 second-ish delay, I get the spinning beach ball. The ball spins, and PS CC is unresponsive for 1-2 minutes, then it works. I still have my PS C6 installed on the same computer, and it experiences no such problem. I woull appreciate any help.
Thank you. I tried loading it with the shift key depressed. That did not alter the problem in any way that I noticed.
I am running the program on a 12 core Mac Pro, 32 Gigs of Ram, OS 10.9.2. External e-Sata drives. nVidia Quadro 4000 video card, 2 NEC monitors (PA301W) and PA271W).
I have both my CS6 Master Collection Installed, as well as a number of CC programs. I recently changed my CC subscription to Team (1 user) from individual (simply less expensive with current incentives). I would repeat that PS CS6 does not have this problem.
I don't see what in settings could be causing the problem, but I admit to being well behind on the CC curve – I have not done much in the last couple of years, and need to re-learn a lot. I suppose that I could uninstall the program, then reinstall, and re-add my plug-ins. I have Nik, Perfect Photo, and added Snap Art 4 (but after the problem manifested). Please let me know what, if any, additional information might be helpful.
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when I try to open pages 09 all i get is spinning beach ball. I have a lot of quotes i need to access but cannot. HELP!!!!!!
It has been fine up until this morning. Its stressing me out now as i may haveto retype loads.Hi fruhulda, I am currently running 10.9.1
I have tried both ways. Generally I save a current quote to desktop and so open the programme by clicking on the quote thumbnail.
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Someone with two macs pls help with spinning beach ball
Sometimes I download pictures to my MacBook from my camera and then transfer them to my main library on my G5 using photo sharing in iPhoto.
If "look for shared photos" is enabled on the MacBook and "share my photos" is enabled on the G5, I get a long hang and a spinning beach-ball in when I launch iPhoto on the MacBook The hang seems subsequently affects the G5. They both hang for a good 15-30 seconds.
While this is happening the Application Monitor shows a root process called "mds" using 99% of the MacBook CPU. Once the hang is over the mds process goes away. The G5 while still hanging simply shows iPhoto as not responding, no mds process.
I've wiped the MacBook clean, set up new accounts. Nothing seems to fix it. The question is; am I alone? Can someone else go through the steps and get iPhoto to launch with iPhoto already running on another networked mac with photo sharing enabled and not get a spinning beach-ball.
This was also a problem in iPhoto 06'. I was really hoping Apple got my feedback and fixed in 08' Maybe something is wrong with my MacBook.Hi.
mds is the indexing process, usually run by Spotlight when looking for files, folders, servers, etc.
that's the reason why you get the delay when seeking your images using the sharing function. Your mac is searching for the requested service (your photo sharing "server"...your other mac), and it cannot find it because of the firewall that's built in to the mac. Whether you're doing this via a wireless or an Ethernet connection, you'll need to assure that your firewalls on
both computers are open to allow that type of sharing to take place.
Take a look in your System Prefs, under the Sharing icon. Click on the "Firewall" button and, after authenticating with your password, scroll down and select the option for "iPhoto Bonjour Sharing". You'll need to do this on BOTH machines, as the port is used by each for communication.
That should solve the problem..
Cheers,
Charlie
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