[P1] iBook Slowdown (cpu sys =93 %)

[Richard McKay]

Am 10/12/02 21:02 schrieb "Larry Blodgett" unter <lblodgett at macosx.com>:

> I dual boot my iBook (MacOS9 and MacOS 10.2.2) and normally run in
> MacOS9.  I generally boot into 10 about once a week.  MacOS 10 ran
> just fine until 2 days back.  I noticed it was really slow, slow,
> slow.  It took maybe 10 minutes to boot and it seems like the system
> is working very hard.
> 
> So I went to the terminal and here are the results (notice the CPU
> sys =92.7%  also note the  0 kernel_tas  97.9%)
> 
> What could be wrong here and how do I fix it? I would rather not
> reinstall the system if possible.

>  347 IomegaDriv   0.4%  0:40.25   1    22    32   136K   732K   676K  14.2M
>  346 Snard        0.0%  0:03.97   1    55    98  1.56M  3.55M  3.25M  40.1M
>  296 xinetd       0.0%  0:00.11   1    10    15    96K   452K   264K  1.43M
>  174 ATSServer    2.2%  1:10.83   2    34   112   424K  2.98M  2.32M  27.0M
>   62 dynamic_pa   0.0%  0:00.01   1    10    14    56K   312K   100K  1.29M
>   57 update       0.0%  0:01.92   1     7    13    52K   304K   104K  1.26M
>    0 kernel_tas  97.9% 93:59.04  24     0     -      -      -  25.8M+  285M+

Larry,

at the risk of showing my ignorance of the system here goes...

It used to be that when the system booted it checked for servers, I believe
in one of the OS X updates they addressed this but it may still be affecting
you here...I don't remember how to tell the system that it should not search
or connect to the servers but there should be a disable method somewhere?
(as Neo said...help, need help here) This may be the cause of the long boot
time...

What are your Unix log cleaning routines? Do you use macJanitor or clean
these up otherwise? Not sure if this would have an effect here though.

You have an external drive hooked up here? (or more?) PID 347...are these
affecting you? Your PID 174 seems to be quite active, I have not noticed
mine using any memory, may not mean anything though.

And there may be a conflict with Snard and the finder? Is this the PID 296
as well or is this from using fink or other Darwin X window servers? (my
ignorance really shines through here...)

Finally to add to my ramblings of sourcing the problem or making it worse,
did you open, change or delete files in OS X while booted in OS 9? Did you
rebuild the OS X desktop (partition) from OS 9? I mistakenly did that
once...ONCE...don't ask.

Not much help I know but maybe food for thought...if not hopefully at least
good for a laugh...If you want I can email you a copy of my listed processes
from top to compare?

HTH,

Richard
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