October 2007
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searching for the spinning beachball (how-to)
Also, some useful notes for google searches: deadlock and lockup both seem to work - on the mac this is usually indicated by a ‘spinning beachball’ in eclipse and the Activity Monitor reporting that eclipse is unresponsive. (This is usually some kind of deadlock between threads (or potentially an endless loop, but who knows - interestingly you can get this behaviour with the...
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What to do when eclipse starts to freeze on osx:
“…Two things I can think of — remove the shared class archive (found in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions//Libraries/classes.jsa) so it will be forced to regenerate…. you can get a java stack trace by typing ‘kill -QUIT ’ on the stuck process. Another helpful thing is to attach to it with gdb and type ‘t a a bt’ to get all native...