iBook Slowdown (cpu sys =93 %)

[Charles Martin]

> From: Larry Blodgett <lblodgett at macosx.com>
>
> I only have about 350 meg.  What is the minimum I should have??
>
>>>>  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.
>>
>> How much free space do you have on the OS X partition or drive?

That's probably too little. Mac OS X (like other Mac OS's before it) 
needs room for temp files and whatnot, as well as space (80MB chunks) 
for Virtual Memory. If you don't have a lot of RAM the system could 
easily be using the 350 (or nearly that much) MB for VM space.

As a rule of thumb, you need to leave at least 500MB or more available. 
I usually just leave at least 5-10% of my HD free and clear. If I'm 
routinely running on less than 10% free space, it's time for a bigger 
drive and/or more organisation/offloading less-used stuff.

_Chas_
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