[X Newbies] OSX Trim The Fat

[Michael Winter]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 11:28  PM, Nigel Williamson wrote:

> My question is... Is there any bits of the OS I can delete that will 
> make it run faster?

Do you have Classic running? From my experience that can give you a 
pretty good performance hit, even it there's nothing actually running 
in Classic.

Other than that, my first step would be to find out what's causing the 
slow-down.  If you're familiar with the command line, you might want to 
run top to see what's happening, but since this is a Newbies list the 
alternative is to run  "Process Viewer" which can be found in 
/Applications/Utilities. Is there a single app/process that's hogging 
the CPU?

There's also a utility called iPulse, which I think can be found from 
www.versiontracker.com. It will give you a more comprehensive view of 
what's going on with respect to other parts of the system.

Bottom line, rather than trying to trim everything you can down, find 
out what's actually causing the slow-down. It may be there's nothing 
you can do about it and you can end up spending a lot of time for 
little or no result.

-Mike