Memory and Spinning Beachballs of Death (SBD's)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this question, but here goes. For a while now I've been encountering intermittent SBD's. It happens with multiple applications, so I'm having trouble narrowing down exactly what the issue is. One thing I tried was having my Activity Monitor set in my Dock so I could monitor Memory Usage, but I'm not sure how to understand the graph. I've got over a gig of RAM, yet the Monitor consistently shows only 91.47 MB or so of my Wired Memory being used and 4.91 GB of Virtual Memory. VM is slower than WM, right? Do I need to install more memory? How can I tell? Just trying to figure things out. Thanks!

You can tell better by looking at the pageouts in Activity Monitor.
You can tell how many swap files by going to the finder and using the Go To (command + shift + g)
/private/
then look for /vm directory
1GB is not a lot. In fact, the 'sweet spot' for G5s is more like 1.5GB - for "lite" use apps.
OS X will try to use all of your RAM for caching to improve performance. you should not be concerned with it being used, it would be worse if it sat unused, and 'going to waste.'
the Virtual Memory you see is just an address space, "allocated" but not used.
You should though be concerned with free space, accumulation of cache files (Safari and Camino can eat up 100MB and more).
Get yourself into doing daily backups; run Disk Warrior before and after; and do a backup-erase-restore from time to time. And generally keep it maintained.
Corrupt prefs? Disk Warrior and TechTool Pro, and Applejack
Bad RAM? Memtest and Rember
corrupt directory? Disk Warrior

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               5%          Spotify
               2%          Google Chrome
               2%          EtreCheck
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          197 MB          mds_stores
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Hi volpelino,
I am having exactly the same issue (same programs too, but mainly Chrome and Spotify).
Glad to hear your issue was fixed..... I don't use Sophos so I'm guessing I'm going to have to troubleshoot my machine.
I may just try posting what you did to see if I get a response ...
Could you tell me how / where you actually got all of that data on your MBP so I can do the same for mine?
Thanks!
K

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MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro4,1
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5 GB RAM
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[not loaded]com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[not loaded]com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist Support
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EtreCheck in Normal Mode
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48) Report generated July 24, 2014 3:59:15 PM CDT
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Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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Fresh Install of Yosemite and still spinning beachballs...

Hey all, I've been having this spinning beachball issue for a long time now and it's really annoying. I just did a fresh install of Yosemite. My Mac Mini downloaded Yosemite from the Apple servers. I just turned on my Mac Mini to test it out and the spinning beachballs are back...
There must be a way I can fix this without erasing the whole drive and installing each app one at a time...
Could someone please help me?
Thanks for any help!

Here it is:
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 22 February 2015 10:37:08 am AEDT
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
Mac mini (Mid 2011) with Intel HD Graphics 3000.
Mac mini - model: Macmini5,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Logitech USB Keyboard
composite_device 15.52 GB
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Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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LastPass
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Spinning Cursor of Death on all actions and apps

I now have the spinning cursor of death on all apps all finder actions in snow leopard
over last 3 months, OS periodically dumped bluetooth, resetting the Sys management controller fixed this, also zapped the pram twice in this time.   in the last 10 days had to do this every 5 days.
All actions are extremely slow, spinning ball cursor on all apps and icons bouncing in dock for long time, all apps slow in operation, the command F is also very slow, if backing up to usb drive doing any other tasks is almost impossible
1. booted from external HD (Backup'd with Chronosync) drive and ran disk utility to repair permissions 3 times.   Although it states the permissions are repaired on the 3rd time it was a repeat of the first. So it appears it is not repairing the permissions at all
2. reset system management controller
3. zapped pram
account - admin ( only used for installing apps). My user ac and a 2nd user account set up for family visitors. This ac hadn't been opened for 9 months and I found couldn't log in - froze twice forced restart - also to log out and login to any other ac took 3 min, normal 15 secs.   Deleted the family ac and login returned to normal on other ac's
4. booted from installer disk and ran disk repair, aok, and then permissions repair twice.
5. booted from installer disk 2 and ran apple hardware test aok
Been thru the apps folder and deleted any app no longer required and deleted prefs from the prefs folder as well as well an any other orphan files.
appeared to be working ok until boot next day same problems, re-booted in safe mode and tried using firefox and then opening excel, same problem, deleted firefox and all accompanying files. Rebooted and problem worse than ever. OS is unusable. Currently working from chronosync bootable HD from last bootable backup 12 days ago. ( files backed up daily)
I would like to avoid erasing the HD and clean instal if possible I have 400 GB of data - The latest updates are installed on everything
Any help as to what to do next would be appreciated
Lhadis

lahdis wrote:
I now have the spinning cursor of death on all apps all finder actions in snow leopard
over last 3 months, OS periodically dumped bluetooth, resetting the Sys management controller fixed this, also zapped the pram twice in this time.   in the last 10 days had to do this every 5 days.
All actions are extremely slow, spinning ball cursor on all apps and icons bouncing in dock for long time, all apps slow in operation, the command F is also very slow, if backing up to usb drive doing any other tasks is almost impossible
Sounds like malware, boot drive failing, bad sectors or OS x is messed up.
Although it states the permissions are repaired on the 3rd time it was a repeat of the first. So it appears it is not repairing the permissions at all
Apple changed some things under the hood, so it's going to show certain Disk Uitlity permisisons fixes over and over, that you can ignore.
2. reset system management controller
3. zapped pram
not applicable in your case, but it doesn't hurt.
I would like to avoid erasing the HD and clean instal if possible I have 400 GB of data - The latest updates are installed on everything
Well copy that 400GB of User Data to another drive, as to fix your issue may require a erase and install to fix the bad sectors issue.
Run through this list of fixes, wipe and install is last and if that still gives you problems then it's a bad drive.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
This will fix the bad sector issue if you just want to jump and do that.
Erase, formatting, OS X installs on Mac's
I also suspect because your using Chronosych, that it's not doing something right and/or OS X is getting confused with the two boot drives.
Once your fixed up, use Carbon Copy Cloner instead and make sure to name the clone something differnet.
Most commonly used backup methods
Read this to max your Snow Leopards performacne, you may juat want to do that then CCC clone it and be sweet and fast again.
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks

I upgraded my imac to snow leopard and now every time I click the mouse I get the spinning wheel of death

One morning a week ago I got the "White Screen Of Death" and my desktop imac wouldn't load so mac support told me I had to erase my history and upload imac again. We went through every senario to get it to work to no avai. I had a snow leopard disc so I uploaded that as well. In the last few days I click on my mouse and I get the "Spinning Ball Of Death" most every time I click. It lasts for about 5 - 20 seconds every time. I am not a "techie" at all. Is there any way to stop this. I am not sure what could be causing this. I erased my browers cache on Safari and that didn't help. I also turned the comp. off then back on and that didn't work either. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Step by step how to's? I am not totally ignorant in computer speak but not an expert by any means. Thanks!

Greetings,
What do you mean by "events to update"? Do you mean invites to new events or changes to existing invites?
Troubleshooting:
1. Your profile indicates you are running 10.6.7, 10.6.8 is the current version Apple > Software update.
2. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
3. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
3. Launch iCal and test.
Hope that helps!

HT2506 I use Preview to edit photos, and would like to know if there are any Preview updates in the works. I find there is a problem with Preview crashing, or taking a very long time to "catch up" (spinning beachball of death) while I'm editing.

I use Preview to edit photos, and would like to know if there are any updates to this program in the works. It seems Apple is constantly updating its software, except for Preview. I find it crashes all too often, and also takes forever to "catch up" with me (as in spinning beachball of death) when I'm editing a lrge amount of photos. Yes, I know I should be using Photoshop or somesuch, but it's just too **** confusing, and I don't have the time to figure it out. Thanks!!

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. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
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.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

My Mac is lagging big and whenever I click on something it just goes to the spinning wheel of death I can't do anything I need help

Somebody help me My Mac is lagging big and whenever I click on something it just goes to the spinning wheel of death I can't do anything I need help

What model year Mac and what version of OS X are you running.
If this is on an older Mac with standard Rotating HDD it could be a sign the HDD is either to full of data or it is starting to fail. It could also be caused by 3rd party software you've installed.

I have a brand new macbook pro that i was doing a data transfer from an old macbook, it got stopped/cable pulled out, now have spinning wheel of death that wont stop, how do i reboot/stop the wheel of death and start again?

i have a brand new macbook pro that i was doing a data transfer via firewire from an old macbook, it got stopped/cable pulled out, now have spinning wheel of death that wont stop, how do i reboot/stop the wheel of death and start again? (this time il use time machine transfer)

Just power off the machine(s). Shut them down. Migration Assistant gets 'stuck' sometimes - best way to migrate really isn't over Firewire, though it will certainly work, but with both machines hardwired via Ethernet to the same router. You can use a TM backup, too, of course, provided that it's recent. Which is the best? Your choice. I've done it both ways and have a preference for MA, but TM restore can be a bit faster and less quarrelsome.
Clinton

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