[G4] X upgrade - Not happy

[Charles Turner]

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 06:05  PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:12:50 -0500
> Subject: Re: [G4] X upgrade - Not happy
> From: Gregory Cortelyou <chefgreg at mac.com>
> Message-Id: <96871566-1F3E-11D7-B566-000A27E2C5EE at mac.com>
>
>
> On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 09:24  AM, Rosenberger, Anthony B.
> (Tony) wrote:
>
>> I recently upgraded from 9 to jaguar on my G4 Sawtooth 450 (768 meg
>> ram) and
>> I am not happy with the performance I am getting from it.  OS 9 ran so
>> fast
>> on it, but x is rather slow.  I want to stay with X because I love the
>> stability, security, and look of X but don't know if I can live with
>> the
>> performance.
>>

> I am running 10.2.3 on my old 350 G4 Sawtooth with 512 ram and while I
> admit I notice somewhat slower Finder behaviors, it is not so slow that
> it bothers me. Fact is I have come to love OSX so much, I just learn to
> live with it.

Something that has made my OSX system feel more responsive is a program 
called Renicer:

<http://www.northernsoftworks.com/renicer.html>

Renicer runs in the background and increases the dispatch priority of 
the program that has the desktop focus. This makes it more responsive 
by minimizing the competition for CPU from whatever else might be 
running at the same time. This is so logical it makes me wonder why 
Apple didn't just do it this way in the first place. In my experience 
Red Hat Linux on a sub-1GHz PC, eg., has a snappier feeling GUI desktop 
than does my G4/733 Jaguar, in part presumably because of smarter CPU 
dispatching. No doubt Apple will eventually tune this up.

-ct