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mddublin - Feb 1, 2008 - 10:56 am

I have install 10.3.9 on a 4-core mac pro which I recently purchase only about a month ago. In the last few weeks, strange, non-CPU heavy programs, such as TextEdit and Microsoft Office 2004 will give me spinning beach balls, then refuse to force quit.

Can someone please explain the kill process in terminal using the PID number?

Thanks,
Matthew

earthsaver - Feb 1, 2008 - 1:10 pm

That sounds like an impossible situation. Are you sure it's not a PowerMac G5? the Mac Pro isn't compatible with Panther, which is a PPC-only OS.

You can enter kill -9 PID#

But why go through the trouble of finding the PID when you can kill by name?

kill "app name"

- Ben

mddublin - Feb 2, 2008 - 1:25 pm

That was a typo, running 10.4.7

Is there any reason that you think this is occurring rather frequently with such simple applications on a brand new macpro? Protools doesn't do this, it's only programs like TextEdit, Mail, and Microsoft Word.

earthsaver - Feb 2, 2008 - 2:11 pm

What version of Pro Tools are you using? I know it doesn't support Leopard yet, but 7.4 requires 10.4.9 or higher. Not that PT's the one giving you problems, but perhaps running Software Update to get the latest version of Tiger would be a good start.