Re: beachball

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: beachball
Date: 14:18 on 27 Apr 2005
> 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.

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