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- Tyr7BE, on 10/26/2007, -3/+71Where's iTunes? Has anyone ever tried to run iTunes in an environment that deviates EVEN JUST A TINY LITTLE BIT from what it expects? BAM!! Beachball. For minutes and minutes and minutes at a time.
I'm using an NFS mount to access my music library, which resides on a linux box elsewhere in my house. I use iTunes to add music to my library, simply pointing the itunes music library to my NFS mount point. Sometimes things run smoothly, but sometimes it decides it's gotten confused half way through the add procedure. The app freezes, the beachball comes on, and I get up and make a sandwich or something because it's gonna be a good 5 to 10 minutes before iTunes comes back to see how I'm doing. No network activity, no nothing. Just iTunes going "ummmm....uhhhhh.....*****....I was supposed....to be doing.....something........uhhhhhhhh...." - delhokie, on 10/26/2007, -1/+52Somebody email this to Steve Jobs! You gotta' wonder what goes through his mind when that happens to his Mac, does he cuss at it like the rest of us do :)
- ucg1, on 10/26/2007, -1/+34I've got 5GB of RAM in my Mac Pro, and though I don't get many system-wide beach balls, I got lots of application-level beach balls that last for quite a while. Bottleneck is the hard drive as well as how the apps were designed to block on certain operations. iLife apps are notorious for this.
- dawgma, on 10/26/2007, -1/+25WOW! You mean when when you multiply a few seconds of wasted time over a whole population of people you get big numbers??
Every day, all over the world, people waste on average 5 seconds scratching an itch. 5 seconds times 6 billion people equals nearly 1000 YEARS of wasted time! EVERY DAY! If everyone was paid minimum wage, that's 2 billion dollars wasted EVERY DAY FROM ITCH SCRATCHING!! - freezerburn666, on 10/26/2007, -10/+33i totally disagree, and often i get the beachball and cant do ANYTHING at all.
- marioestrada, on 10/22/2007, -3/+25Funny site it just needs more apps like Camino, Firefox, iWork, iLife, etc...
- drakethegreat, on 10/22/2007, -0/+20All the ram in the world can't save you from memory leaks.
- a3r0, on 10/22/2007, -9/+28OSX? Frozen? Impossible!
- Darqfaux, on 10/24/2007, -3/+22To bad digg users spamming the site cause grave inaccuracies to the counter.
- louiemantia, on 10/26/2007, -5/+23You're stupid. :)
- MtheoryX, on 10/24/2007, -6/+23I refuse to use Camino.
- aspec, on 10/21/2007, -16/+33Buy more ram.
- typicalusername, on 10/24/2007, -5/+21Okay, I'm not a Mac user, in fact I don't creally care for them. However, I gotta say, you Mac users have a great sense of humor. Dugg for the expressionism.
- 1jaxstate1, on 10/20/2007, -2/+18Have your ever tried to connect to a server from the Menu Bar. If it can't be found, you're *****. You're better off rebooting than waiting for the beachball to stop spinning.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/26/2007, -8/+24It's a spinny greenish blue circle thing in Vista. (And generally when something is busy in Windows, it doesn't freeze up the entire system, like it does whenever I'm using OSX in my Animation class.)
- iashraf, on 10/21/2007, -31/+46The frequency of the 'spinning beachball of death on' OSX is NOTHING like the 'sands of time' on any Windows OS!
- acbeck58, on 10/20/2007, -2/+15Digg: 2 seconds
- DigDugDigger, on 10/22/2007, -0/+13The only app that does it to me on a regular basis is Finder when it tries to access a network mount that is no longer available. Hopefully 10.5 makes this a thing of the past.
- enivid, on 10/22/2007, -4/+16I refuse to use "Other" for Camino!
- DigDugDigger, on 10/22/2007, -0/+12or Dashboard widget :)
- Goobernutz, on 10/24/2007, -1/+13How much time has been wasted on the "The OSX Spinning Wheel - Track How Much #$#&%^! Time It Has Wasted" page?
- ucg1, on 10/21/2007, -1/+12Gah, I hate iTunes for reasons like this.
- crackedplastic, on 10/22/2007, -1/+12Well, here's some indication of him during times like that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAsxzwHaGjk
(yes, it's an oldie, but a goodie)..... - inactive, on 10/20/2007, -0/+10I haven't gotten a BSOD in at least 7 years. Since XP. Not once.
- digitalarcanum, on 10/24/2007, -1/+11best description of a pointless waiting period ever.
- JRWest, on 10/20/2007, -2/+11..but Clinton...
- Boondoggle, on 10/22/2007, -0/+9Don't get your hopes up. I've been hoping for this since 10.0
- ChromaVita, on 10/20/2007, -0/+9Dugg up. 2 more seconds.
- ChiefTypist, on 11/09/2007, -2/+10Firefox was already in the list. Just added iWork and iLife. Use "Other" for Camino.
-ch - KidDynamo0, on 10/20/2007, -0/+8I bet it doesn't waste more time than constantly refresh Digg all day.
- hellathatguy, on 10/20/2007, -3/+11i'm glad you call it the spinning beachball, some people call it the pizza of death....wtf.
- ers35, on 10/20/2007, -1/+8Negative values work as well. I will reset the counter.
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -1/+8I get a beach ball whenever I visit digg and start opening tabs, too much AJAX.
- richardiscool, on 10/20/2007, -2/+9I had a BSOD on XP, which contained useful information, and I found out I had bad RAM. On OS X, I'd have got some unhappy computer or something, and would have had to take it to be repaired.
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -2/+9Needs a bookmarklet!
- Boondoggle, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6It is almost always an app. When the app is the Finder, and you don't have any other open apps to switch to, it can appear that the entire system is hung. it almost never is though. Lots of services continue to chug along minding their own business.
As many have noted, the finder has some serious issues with unavailable network volumes causing LONG hangs. Those represent about 90% of my SPWODs. Usually I just relaunch the Finder and I'm set. - macsrock888, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6as soon as I went to this site safari beach balled for like five seconds and the gave me a slow script error!
Oh the irony... - Sprules04, on 10/20/2007, -2/+8Do you people really get system freezes when the "spinning beach ball of death" pops up? Whenever I get it it's usually just a specific app (iTunes does it the most but I blame that on the fact that I keep my library on an 'AirDisk' and when I add or change things in the library it takes a minute to resolve itself) and even then I can continue to work on other things. Although sometimes an app does lock up and I'll just force quit it then start it right back up. It surprises me that it's so widespread.
- ChiefTypist, on 10/22/2007, -3/+9thanks for being a prick and interrupting my lunch
- zoom1928, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6Your session has expired, please refresh the page before commenting.
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/22/2007, -1/+7someone said buy more ram. I have 8GB, is that enough *****?
beachball sucks balls, get it all the time. hourglass for windows, or X completely freezes on linux (ssh in and kill X)
GUI can suck my ass. i code a lot, and i love the commandline - it rarely treats me as badly as GUI does. - sailadayaway, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6How can that much time been wasted SINCE today's date exactly?
- vocalyouth, on 10/20/2007, -0/+5I recently upped to 2GB ram in my MBP and I still get the beachball all the time in Firefox. Especially when streaming XM Radio for some reason. Oh well.
- roboticelephant, on 10/20/2007, -1/+6Cool people can just kill -9.
- falcon413, on 10/21/2007, -1/+6I'm using the OS X Cursor in my Windows box, and I swear... If I put up how much time I've waited for the Beachball of Doom, that counter would go up ten-fold.
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -2/+7I have a VERY slow computer and never get the "sands of time" for more than a second.
- MrDo, on 10/20/2007, -1/+6The site says "Like what you see, Digg it!"
- hifiDesign, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4Yeah. Kinda feel bad about digging it now :/
@Gedeon & Craig: No hard feelings, right guys? - antdude, on 10/20/2007, -2/+6http://duggmirror.com/apple/The_OSX_Spinning_Wheel ...
- amadeusdemarzi, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4Haha, from the youtube comments:
Steve Jobs: "Massive Branch Prediction Logic.......which I don't know what it does, predicts branches? " -
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