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

[Kim Gammelg å rd]

On 10/12/02 22:02, "Larry Blodgett" <lblodgett at macosx.com> wrote:

> 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%)

Hi Larry, 

Seems like your kernel is working a bit hard. I would bet on the same thing
Richard is proposing, to run MacJanitor, or as it seems you are
Terminal-savvy, you could run the following commands from the terminal
instead:
sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
sudo periodic monthly

Given that we have no clue what you were asking top to show (could be a top
-l1 or -l10) it could be data collected from one second only, and therefore
both interesting and not. The CPU measurements would not be really
interesting, as this changes from second to second, but the RAM-usage is
interesting always.

A thing that Richard is pointing at, is your external drive. That might well
be the culprit, as external stuff has been before.

If this doesn't work, there is the possibility to login as a different user,
perhaps root, just to check if the problem persists. Else you know where to
look: in your home library folder!

You could of course run a Disk warrior from OS9 or just an fsck -y at
startup. None of those would harm.

Let us hear what you find out.

Cheers,

Kim