[G4] slowdown

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Try running the "Disk Utility" on your boot hard drive selecting the  
correct permissions option.
Also check you memory and CPU usages after quitting all  
applications.... Using the "Activity Monitor". Look for stuff that is  
taking substantial amounts of CPU and RAM.

Make not of the idle usage of CPU and RAM, How much is used / free.  
Also look at for CPU hogging processes something that is taking more  
than 10% of the CPU when you are doing nothing at all... When you go  
into the activity monitor set show to "All Processes" Your goal for  
CPU usage when idle should be a result less than or around 10% but  
really -subtract 5%  from that for the Activity Monitor itself. Don't  
go randomly quitting process, you might log your self-out, etc.. So  
only quit stuff you know is misbehaving... some info on the  
background processes... http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/ 
background-processes.html

"Idle usage" meaning no other visible applications running except the  
Activity Monitor and the Finder.

Then restart you computer and check the totals again...

Also I found a big improvement since upgrading from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3  
in terms of in-use ram totals when idle. Improves from about 400MB to  
300MB. I was getting that total based on Wired and Active Totals in  
the Activity Monitor under the System Memory section. With 1.5GB of  
memory installed.


It seem to help performance wise also by logging out occasionally of  
the account and logging back in  if you stay logged in for days /  
weeks at a time.

Restarts too help performance a little after being on for a few weeks...

also here is some info on unix maintenance scripts including with mac  
os 10 , which you might interested in if you studown / sleep your  
computer instead of running it 24/ 7....

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.

On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:57 PM, dapper dan wrote:

> my g4 powerbook seems to be running a bit slower than it used to.is  
> there any maintenance i can do to help it run well?(im a former pc  
> user who is still getting used to the mac reality)i have no av  
> software.any ideas or help out there?
>
> thanx
> dan
>
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