[X-Newbies] slow warm ups

[John Mee]

Daniel,
I don't know if I've been able to find anything that is "the reason", 
same as you, I'm just pleased it worked. Things I thought were causing 
it but were not:

1) I had DNS servers listed as suggested when the Safari timing out 
issues were occurring before upgrading to 10.3.7, I had removed them 
and rebooted but no change, but maybe it took effect by stopping 
services and restarting?
2) I had fast user switching on, at some point it seems like it was a 
problem, and I turned it off and rebooted - no change.
3) I had a helvetica font I suspected and trashed, I ran all the ONYX 
defaults from their automatic tab, I ran a command line check for 
damaged .plist files and deleted what I found. Also trashed .plists 
that were modified during start up.

The whole time my account was slow the other account on the same 
machine never had the problem.

John Mee


On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Read wrote:

> On 02/02/2005, at 11:57 AM, John Mee wrote:
>
>> Just cleared up the problem on my machine, it seems to be network 
>> related. I went to system prefs. and chose network then on the second 
>> drop down menu "Show:" I chose network port configurations and 
>> unchecked everything. Then I restarted and the problem was gone. 
>> After re-setting my network port config. which on my machine is just 
>> a check for built in ethernet as we have a router that does the 
>> sharing of DSL here, I tried another restart and all is well.
>>
>>>
>>> To be clearer, it loads the date/time - battery status - location - 
>>> sound, bluetooth, airport all one at a time on a transparent 
>>> background and then the finder bar pops in. The dock loads at 
>>> roughly the same time and the desktop icons soon after. I can't 
>>> trace this to anything that is set to run on start up and I haven't 
>>> got the airport or bluetooth ports switched on so the system 
>>> shouldn't be waiting for network connections.
>
> Thanks Jon! Disabling the ethernet port, rebooting and then 
> re-enabling it has fixed the problem for me as well. I can't believe 
> I've put up with such a slow boot for months.
>
> Now I'm wondering what network preferences dumps when a port is 
> disabled. My first thought was that it could trash any saved locations 
> and thus stop looking for them when set to automatic. This somewhat 
> buggy reasoning made sense to me until I checked under the 'location:' 
> drop down in network preferences and all my saved locations where 
> still present.
>
> One of the similarities in our systems is that we share a connection 
> through a router. Perhaps the problem is related to the way the router 
> provides the IP addresses and subnet masks. Disabling the ethernet 
> port could clear a list or cache somewhere.
>
> Daniel Read
> Web Producer
> Hillcode
>
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