[moneydance] Moneydance (build 606) frozen for several minutes

[D & F Miller]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Gordon Alley wrote:

> iMac G4 800, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.5.2 with current patches
> Mondeydance 2008 (build 606)
>
> Tonight I was reconciling a stock broker statement for January.  
> There were
> about 85 transactions in that period. After I achieved a 0  
> difference, I
> clicked the DONE button in the reconciliation dialog. I expected a  
> short
> delay at that point, but this time it just sat there. I spent several
> minutes, checking to make sure other apps were still responsive  
> (they were,
> though I could tell the system was pretty busy), and running the  
> Activity
> Monitor (Moneydance was shown as NOT RESPONDING with about 89% of  
> the CPU -
> the Floating CPU Window bar was pegged). Also, when the mouse  
> pointer was
> over a MD window, it was displaying the Spinning Beachball of Death.
> I could select different MD windows and bring them to the front, but  
> its
> menus and other controls were unresponsive. I was about to kill MD  
> with
> CMD-OPT-ESC, but decided to leave it up while I composed this  
> message, in
> case I needed to check anything (and I was dreading repeating the  
> whole
> reconciliation process). After I had started typing this report (on a
> MacBook that's located next to the iMac where MD is running), I  
> happened to
> glance back over at the Activity Monitor, and noticed that MD had  
> dropped
> back to 8.4% CPU usage, and, sure enough, it had completed the the
> reconciliation and returned to normal. It had been unresponsive for  
> at least
> 3-4 minutes.
>
> The Mac I'm running on is pretty slow. Yes, Leopard isn't officially
> supported on anything less than an 867 Mhz machine, but that iMac is
> actually running better now than with Tiger - it might have  
> something to do
> with the fact that I ended up doing a clean install, and left out  
> most of
> the 3rd-party extensions and add-on software gizmos I had loaded it  
> up with
> in its earlier incarnations. But I've been running MD on it for many  
> years,
> and I don't think I've ever experienced a freeze like this.
>
> And I can understand where some operation might cause a delay, but it
> shouldn't stop responding to the OS for that long.
>
> Just thought I'd post this report in case anyone else has had a  
> similar
> experience recently.
>
> -Gordon
>
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> Gordon B. Alley
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Gordon,

I have exactly the same machine and I tried Leopard on it.  IMHO, I  
found Leopard to be significantly inferior to Tiger on this machine.   
While it DID function, Leopard often hung for varying lengths of time  
- sometimes for quit a while.  Had a couple of complete system lock- 
ups, too.  I just don't think this iMac has the horsepower and  
hardware to function well with 10.5.  I did a clean install of Tiger,  
updated it, installed the few add-ons I really wanted,  and am happy  
with its performance.  It is not my main machine now, but when I need  
it, I can depend on it.  Just my experience.

Frank