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 processor (or one of the 2 processors) being almost used 100%, but also with eclipse inactive - surely this indicates whether it is a pure deadlock (the latter case) or an endless loop (that may also have a deadlock implication).