[X4U] slow performance

[Peter Saint James]

	I would love to do that, but the program always looks for the disk.  
It won't look elsewhere.  If anyone has a way to train it to look on 
the hard drive, I'd love to hear it.

	One of the thoughts that occur to me is that perhaps one of the RAM 
chips is not functioning.  When use gobbles up half the supposed RAM, 
the machine starts acting up.  Is there a way to assess the health of 
the RAM without taking the machine apart?  System profiler and Activity 
Monitor both say it's all there and available.


									Peter



On 7 Apr2005, at 5:48 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> Does it help to copy the app to the hard drive? That will likely speed
> things up a bit.
>
>
> On 4/7/05 5:39 PM, "Peter Saint James" <peterstj at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> My Mac has started slowing down recently whenever I run a particular
>> program.
>>
>> This is a language program that says it requires 64 MB of RAM to run.
>> It runs off of a CD in the disk drive.  I also have been using a USB
>> headset at the same time.
>>
>> The program runs slowly and will pause, the disk drive stops and
>> starts.  The program has crashed a few times.  If I unplug the 
>> headset,
>> the performance improves.  So obviously the program and the headset
>> together tax resources too much.
>>
>> This surprises me, however.  I'm running OS X 10.3.8 on a Aluminum
>> Powerbook with a gig of RAM.  It seems like there should be enough
>> resources to run both the program and the headset.  Activity Monitor
>> says a bit over half of RAM is free.  Activity Monitor also says that
>> the language program is taking 89 percent of the CPU.
>>
>> Are my expectations excessive or does something need attention?
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
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