Have you run DiskWarrior or defragmented the drive? Installs of X seem to play havoc in these areas for some reason. It could be what's causing your performance problems. -- heart93 at woh.rr.com Admit nothing Deny everything Make counter accusations > From: Qinet <brianlim at qinet.net> > Reply-To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:11:28 +0800 > To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Subject: Re: [P1] iBook Slow on 10.2.2 (Continued) > >> I have installed 10.2.2 from scratch on a seperate partition on my >> iBook 12" 500MHz 320 MegRam. The install and the intenet update >> tooks hours and hours to perform. The machine is crawling and top >> says the cpu is like 85-95 % busy. >> >> The hardware CD check continues to show everything passed. >> >> When I boot into 9.2.2 everything is fine, nice and fast. >> >> I have reset pram, I erased the partition before I reinstalled. The >> thing runs so slow in 10.2.2 it is hard to do any testing or >> anything. I guess I will pull the memory and see if the thing will >> even boot. >> >> This has me totally stumped, how could 9.2.2 run like a charm and >> 10.2.2 be so slow? >> >> If you have any ideas let me know.