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I am on OSX, and my system is becoming unresponsive for a few seconds roughly every 10 minutes. (It gives me the spinning beach ball of death). I was wondering if there was any way I could isolate the problem (I have plenty of RAM, and there are no pageouts/thrashing). Any Unix/OSX tools that could help me monitor and isolate the cause of this behaviour?
I’d run a mixture of ‘top’ as well as tail -f /var/log/messages (or wherever your main log file is).
Chances are right before/after the hang, some error message will come out. From there you can start to weed out your problems.