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Possibly unfreeze a process with Activity Monitor
Authored by: Stormchild on Feb 19, '08 11:25:57AM

I very much doubt that this actually does anything; I think it is just a coincidence. If anything, opening Activity Monitor gives you something to do while the app finishes whatever it was doing, so you don't get impatient and force-quit a program thinking it has locked up, when it is really just taking awhile to perform some task. More often than not it is probably just a delay caused by swapping memory to/from disk, as this tends to cause very long delays when you get low on memory and/or disk space.



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incredible but true?
Authored by: bogdescu on Feb 19, '08 03:28:42PM

It doesn't make much sense indeed, but it *seemed* to work for me a few times. I admit this puts me in line with those who saw a pink ufo and promise to seek appropriate help if this happens again, as I don't see any logical explanation for it.



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