[X Newbies] OSX Trim The Fat

[Eugene Lee]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:28:39PM +1000, Nigel Williamson wrote:
: 
: I'm running X.2 on my G4PB 550/512/20G with average results. It gets 
: pretty sluggish with any more than 4 or 5 apps running generally.
: 
: My question is... Is there any bits of the OS I can delete that will 
: make it run faster? Apart from the obvious printer drivers, modem 
: scripts, languages crap... what else can I do to make it run faster? 

Actually, deleting that stuff will *not* make OS X faster.  The nice
thing aout OS X is that it loads only what it needs, unlike old Mac OS
that loaded everything into memory whether it's used or not.  You can't
troubleshoot OS X the way you did in old Mac OS.

: I'm running a shadowkiller app... but I'm not sure that makes it any 
: quicker. I'm considering installing X on my external 80G FW drive as 
: it's faster and has more space than my internal. What do you think?

It won't help, and may make it worse.  The internal IDE drive is always
faster than the external Firewire drive.

The two most obvious things that can be upgraded on your machine is more
RAM (at least 1 GB) and a larger/faster internal hard drive.


-- 
Eugene Lee
eugene at fsck.net