Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: spinning beach ball of death Date: 29 Aug 2015 21:47:21 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <290820150735192903%nospam@nospam.invalid> <290820151417029101%nospam@nospam.invalid> <55e1f88a$0$17128$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net o8bsiDFvr86wQWKkkbjbawmoFrz081SPHU3t2xy0NTEPdK4Ulf Cancel-Lock: sha1:FSdk6UgoyX2uvDF933YbinAJEkg= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:79139 On 2015-08-29, JF Mezei wrote: > On 15-08-29 14:17, nospam wrote: > >> if it beachballs everywhere, that is also a clue that it could be >> hardware, such as a failing hard drive. however, if the mac is recent, >> it may have an ssd, which could still fail but not as likely. > > > NFS disk access attempt to a non responsive remote host will also freeze > the mac. Even if the drive is mounted "soft" rather than "hard"? I liked NFS & much prefer it to CIFS. But, as usual, the market chose the shittier "solution". -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 22nd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.