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From: j o a r <email@hidden>
Date: 7 de julho de 2007 13:43:48 GMT+01:00
To: Balthamos <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Xcode Freeze

On 7 jul 2007, at 07.16, Balthamos wrote:

When I try to open a project, I get about 2 seconds of bliss, and then comes the spinning beach ball of death for around 2 minutes (give or take 10 seconds). After the said 2 minutes, the beach ball subsides and I can begin working like normal.

If I open Xcode without a project or document, it opens normally; but if I try to access the preferences, it has the same sort of 2 minute beach ball effect before opening.

If I open Xcode without a project and make a new project/file, it works fine; no beach ball to be seen.

Please file a bug, and make sure to include either a Sample report (you can grab it from the Activity Monitor), or a Shark report (Time Profile, All Thread States). You need to grab the sample during the time that Xcode is misbehaving.

The really strange part is that Xcode seems to just be stalling for nothing. I'm looking in the Activity Monitor and it's not taking up any CPU, nor much RAM at all. And also when the beach ball is spinning, I get the unresponsive process deal and I can force quit it.

To "stall for nothing" probably means that it's blocking on I/O - So not really "for nothing".

j o a r

I used to have those problems with black bars appear suddenly on the screen and some haphazard freezes and it turned out it was a hardware problem. I had to send my computer to an Apple reseller and they ran a hardware test with some special diagnostic software Apple provides to resellers and they found out the problem was with the hard disk. (I also got really nasty hard disk wipeouts from time to time after a computer lockup for no apparent reason). Perhaps you should come by your reseller and see if they can run that diagnostic software on your compie and test whether your hardware is the root cause for what you are seeing.