Pause,...pause,...pause

my iMac constantly pauses. Nothing crashes but there is no smooth playback of video, no smooth scrolling in any application, in fact all activity seems to pause very 3/4 seconds. I have had a look at the activity monitor but nothing seems to be reported there but it pauses in its updates every 3/4 seconds.
Anyone have any ideas?
BTW I have had to re-install 10.6.2 combo update twice in the last few weeks because of issues with Compressor and other FCS apps, but this problem pre-dates that.
I do not want to go through the pain of another system instal:)

Problem solved.
Just in case others have the same issue...
mds process (spotlight) was manfully quizzing my external firewire 800 drive, my main scratch disk for FCP. Opened system prefs>spotlight and added the drive to the privacy list. My life is now smooth again:)

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I thought first to see if this forum would have any suggestions.
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Trying to understand the PAUSE statement

I am trying to use the following code:
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON VERIFY OFF
ACCEPT i_name PROMPT 'Enter your name: '
DECLARE
     v_name VARCHAR2(30) := '&i_name';
BEGIN
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     PAUSE 'Adjust paper and press RETURN to continue.';
     dbms_output.put_line('Your name is: ' || v_name);
END;
/But I am receiving these errors:
ORA-06550: line 5, column 8:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "Adjust paper and press RETURN to continue."
when expecting one of the following:
:= . ( @ % ;
The symbol ":=" was substituted for "Adjust paper and press RETURN to
continue." to continue.Am I allowed to use the PAUSE statement within the PL/SQL block, or does it have to be before the DECLARE statement?
If I am allowed to use it within the block, then why am I receiving an error? I tried both with and without the semicolon at the end of the PAUSE statement.
On this site: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a82950/ch8.htm#1001319 it has the following example:
SET PAUSE OFF
PAUSE Adjust paper and press RETURN to continue.
SELECT ...But why would you turn the pause OFF? And then when do you turn it ON? Also, that example seems to conflict with the advice listed here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch12040.htm#i2699261
Which says: "You need to first, SET PAUSE text, and then SET PAUSE ON if you want text to appear each time SQL*Plus pauses."

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You do know that this is all documented in the SQL Plus Users Guide right?
John

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1) copy the photo with the Ken Burns effect
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it will still be executing tasks1 in the meantime, and will resume executing tasks2 only after the pause has expired.
to do so, when I receive a pauseEvent I create a new Thread (PauseThread) and start it.
it itself calls the "setPause(boolean p)" method of Executer to set the "pause" flag to true
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then it sets back the pause flag to false
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the whole process of creating & starting the thread takes up to 50us, I want to reduce this as much as possible.
obviously, I create & start a thread every time I want to do a pause, I'm thinking there MUST be a way to avoid this, and simply call the setTrue / Sleep / setFalse part of the thread instead.
I was thinking about creating and starting the thread only once at the creation of my Executer, and calling the "pause()" method when needed:
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        pauseTime = t;
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I'm concerned with the performance hit of the "while(true)" (as I'm fighting for micro-seconds, even the slighliest useless cpu hit should be avoided)
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yes, I'm certainly reinventing the wheel ! but trying to understand it at the same time !
what was your other suggestion ? Timer + TimerTask ? I've already implemented it and using it now ! as I said it's working good, 3x improvement ! simply trying to see if there's a way to avoid creating a TimerTask object at each run.
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I started the code but, of course, it doesnt work...the button is active as I get a trace...My attempt to start this is in red at the end of the code above. 'pmvOpen' is the name of the flv movie on the parent and I don't know HOW to begin pausing the other movie called 'pmvOpen1' through LocalConnection or to pause the 2 object movies called 'Chart1' and 'Chart2' on the sender.
on(press)
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I forgot about the recieving end code.
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I read on these boards how to create a DVD where playback pauses at a chapter marker for a unique DVD I need to create. While this worked great in Simulator, when I burned a DVD and played it both a PC laptop and my Desktop G5, the DVD paused at every FRAME. I was only able to advance by hitting the play button and going to the next frame of the video. Not what I was hoping for. (The final DVD will be running from a computer.)
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I found the setting. It's the "Pause after" field in the
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