[Ti] Slow as molasses lately...

[Michael]

>Lately, Mail and Safari have been 'spinning the hard drive' and 
>spinning the beach ball between requests.  It's really bogging down 
>my productivity to wait for these cycles.  What is going on?  Why 
>does the OS/application need to access the the disk so much?

Safari has a huge memory leak that causes it to create excessive swap 
files if it remains running for a long period of time; quitting and 
restarting it a few times a day will help, though you have to leave 
it down for a few minutes so swap files refresh.

If you don't leave your computer on over night, download an app via 
versiontracker called MacJanitor and run the monthly, weekly and 
daily tasks that Unix normally does at 3 a.m.  If these files are not 
cleaned up occasionally. you will see a decrease in performance.

-mike