Programs continue locking up & become unresponsive.
I have a 17 inch Mac Book pro with a Processor Speed of:2.16 GHz, & 2Gb of Ram. On my Activity Monitor I have the following: Reads In: 377001, Writes Out: 63041, Reades in/sec:0, Writes Out/sec:0, Data read: 5.45GB, Data Written: 1.30 Gb, Data read/sec:0 Bytes, Data written/sec:0 Bytes. Every program on my computer except for my Web Browser, falls into a stall pattern with a spinning wait cursor. The program becomes totally unresponsive and I am more than likely unable to cease the operation. Even through force quit. This has only been happening the last 2 or 3 weeks. Before that every thing worked fine on my laptop. I never had a problem. I have a 300 Gig hardrive on my computer with about 200 Gig of it free. Even if I shut down every program open on my computer I still get a spinning cursor and an unresponsive program. So I am cognizant of my virtual memory usage. Im not sure what is going on. Im wondering if I downloaded some type of executable file & it's maliciously running up my virtual memory? what can I do to check this? & or fix the problem. I also just did an Apple Software update tonight. Maybe this will help the problem.
blade407 wrote:
I have a 17 inch Mac Book pro with a Processor Speed of:2.16 GHz, & 2Gb of Ram. On my Activity Monitor I have the following: Reads In: 377001, Writes Out: 63041, Reades in/sec:0, Writes Out/sec:0, Data read: 5.45GB, Data Written: 1.30 Gb, Data read/sec:0 Bytes, Data written/sec:0 Bytes. Every program on my computer except for my Web Browser, falls into a stall pattern with a spinning wait cursor.
This may not help, but I suspect that what you see under the "Disk Activity" tab won't be that helpful. You should also check the tabs for "CPU" and "System Memory". Under "CPU", when you see those stalls, what is the "% Idle" value? Under "System Memory", what is the value for "Page outs"?
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