[X4U] OS crawling through chores

[Stroller]

On 10 May 2007, at 19:04, James Hurley wrote:
> ...
> The MacBook is fine but the Powerbook is glacial. Constantly get  
> the spinning beach ball--while typing, selecting menus, etc.
>
> The activity monitor shows heavy SystemUIServer usage, over 70%  
> during beach ball spins  . I get no such activity on the MacBook  
> doing the same operations.

I have on occasions seen a considerable speed improvement by running  
iDefrag. I have seen defragmentation utilities derided here as being  
unnecessary, but as I understand it OS X's on-the-fly defragmentaion  
only touches files of 20meg+ - I guess that on my machine there may  
have been much fragmentation on smaller files. Whatever, I can't  
argue with the results - it definitely made a difference here.

Stroller.