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

[Larry Blodgett]

Richard, thanks for your help. You gave me a lot of things to think about.

>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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Larry Blodgett
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