Originally posted by neilt
can you copy/paste what you have in your terminal window.
also in terminal run top.
do this by typing top at the command line.
let it run for a second or two. then press q to make it stop.
copy and paste that info as well.
neil
Welcome to Darwin!
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% rm -r
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% /System\ Folder
/System Folder: Permission denied.
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% rm -r
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% "/System Folder"
/System Folder: Permission denied.
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% top
Processes: 54 total, 2 running, 52 sleeping... 142 threads 21:53:29
Load Avg: 0.16, 0.29, 0.28 CPU usage: 3.7% user, 7.4% sys, 88.9% idle
SharedLibs: num = 7, resident = 2.22M code, 160K data, 584K LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 3572, resident = 54.1M + 11.6M private, 61.1M shared
PhysMem: 43.2M wired, 73.8M active, 136M inactive, 253M used, 259M free
VM: 2.20G + 3.62M 6822(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
512 top 7.4% 0:00.48 1 14 18 248K 336K 544K 13.6M
506 SecurityAg 0.0% 0:01.13 2 74 86 1.23M 5.43M 3.72M 67.3M
502 Internet E 0.0% 1:13.69 7 83 222 19.6M 14.5M 28.9M 104M
501 Mail 0.0% 0:06.23 4 136 158 4.28M 9.30M 10.7M 80.8M
498 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.06 1 10 15 348K 600K 800K 5.73M
497 login 0.0% 0:00.41 1 12 33 244K 388K 568K 13.7M
496 Terminal 0.9% 0:01.74 3 60 99 1.16M 6.87M 5.78M 70.4M
495 NetInfo Ma 0.0% 0:02.50 2 78 103 2.30M 6.43M 6.52M 69.9M
493 AppleModem 0.0% 0:00.23 2 59 67 668K 4.25M 2.31M 65.5M
492 modemd 0.0% 0:04.75 2 76 46 820K 1.57M 1.91M 16.4M
491 FaxJobMgr 0.0% 0:02.17 6 112 87 1.65M 3.67M 2.88M 67.5M
490 Fax Server 0.0% 0:00.26 1 54 72 888K 4.05M 2.54M 65.9M
489 Fax Assist 0.0% 0:00.26 1 52 70 976K 3.48M 2.23M 64.5M
485 iChatAgent 0.0% 0:00.63 5 64 51 472K 1.93M 2.21M 49.4M
482 WeatherPop 0.0% 0:02.92 1 78 89 1.80M 4.84M 3.71M 67.2M
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck%
in the terminal itself:
Welcome to Darwin!
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% rm -r
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% /System\ Folder
/System Folder: Permission denied.
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% rm -r
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% "/System Folder"
/System Folder: Permission denied.
[Sams-Jaguar:~] samdweck% top