<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>How full is your disk?</div><div>The disk requires "Swap Space" during the boot process and if your disk is close to being full then the "Swap Space" is small and the boot process has to keep swapping little pieces at a time to boot.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you emptied the trash lately?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Harry</div><div>San Jose, Ca</div><div><div>("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _</div><div>( 6_ 6 ) `-. ( ``-._.-`)</div><div>(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `.'``-..-'</div><div> ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,'</div><div> ((((,-'' ((((,' (((.-' fl</div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:47 AM, H F wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">I have the following machine<br><br> Machine Name: PowerBook G4 17"<br> Machine Model: PowerBook5,7<br> CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)<br> Number Of CPUs: 1<br> CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz<br> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB<br> Memory: 2 GB<br> Bus Speed: 167 MHz<br> Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f1<br><div><br><br>It seems to run slow and when I need to reboot it takes over 10 minutes. Are there any obvious easy things to do?<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>