application launching failures

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
>
>>> Does it take awhile to regain the resources to start processes
>>> again?
>>
>> No. When I run too many processes, quitting some takes effect  
>> quickly.
>>
>> I should have been more clear in my first post: I've seen results  
>> like
>> yours, and was able to reboot without power-cycling by being patient.
>
> I've seen it, too, for what it's worth.  In my case, it seemed to  
> have something to do with Rosetta; Word was a particular culprit.   
> (Surprise!)  I don't think I've seen it since I applied the latest  
> set of OS and firmware patches.

Does anyone know if the latest Flash plugins are filtered through  
Rosetta?

For that matter, is there a place to look and see if applications are  
"registered" with Rosetta or logged with it?

I thought it was my imagination, but I did notice that some  
applications seem to trigger the behavior because I'll use them a  
short time and <bonk>...nothing works.  I.e., yesterday I think it  
was the MacTrek Server installer (keeps crashing), so maybe the  
installer was going through Rosetta?  This time I was trying to run a  
Flash application when the behavior occurred.  It never finished  
trying to load after I gave Flash permission to contact websites.

Does anyone know of a good utility for monitoring your sysctl limits,  
preferably graphical?

Does anyone have a way of monitoring the rosetta process (what is it,  
translated?)