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> My experience is that I cannot minimise Safari while it is in beachball > mode. No, you can't. Minimizing is done by the framework running in the application context. But you can hide it, and in any case even if you couldn't having a beachballed Safari window in the background isn't what I'd call "locking the entire computer". I've had the entire computer lock up on me a few times, when it was very busy and very memory starved, but when that happens it doesn't always even get a chance to beachball me. That's a very different ting from having an application lock up. > And the last time I tried to bring something else to the forefront > using the dock, Safari crashed. Hmm. Then something else is very very wrong. Safari shouldn't even be able to know that you're doing that. > > > I open the top and the display instantly shows the login prompt. But > > > can I type in my password? No, I have to wait for the damn beachball > > > to stop spinning. It takes at least half a minute. And why? Surely > > > graphics must be more complex than accepting keyboard input. > > My off-the-top-of-my-head guess is LoginWindow is blocked on disk I/O > > and your disk is still spinning up. > Just take a long time to validate my password then, but let me enter > it. Whether it can do that or not may not be under its control, if that disk I/O is a page fault.There's stuff above here
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