[OT]Mac OS-X irritatingly slow on G3 pBook
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Sat Jun 8 13:17:10 UTC 2002
I haven't experienced anything like that. Possible configuration/memory
issues? OSX likes lotsa memory -- swapping, rather than CPU usage might
be your bottleneck. 128M is just a starting place. Try to up it so far
as possible.
My Pismo has been happily processing X since beta -- no frustrations
here.
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:18 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Now that I finally have OS-X on my pBook I'm getting really annoyed by
> the stunning slowness of many operations. My pBook may be a couple of
> years old but it really ought not be glacial yet!
>
> For example opening a reply to mail window takes several (4-5) seconds.
> Starting netscape or ie takes a looooong time. Squeak fortunately
> performs the same as before, so it;s not that there is some magic
> background process taking 50% cpu. In fact the process viewer never
> seems to confess to more than about 40% of cpu being in use!
>
> Oh yes, and it keeps dying in its sleep and having to be rebooted
> instead of woken. The Apple suggested 'cure' of hittingthe screen
> brightnes keys to kick the screeen has no effect whatsoever.
>
> I know a bunch of squeakers have older powerbooks and so it seems there
> might well be a few of you out there with similar setups and problems.
>
> Pointers to tools to diagnose or fix these annoyances most welcome.
> Buying a new faster machine like a TiBook is not a sensible answer
> unless you can also provide suitable employment to make purchasing said
> device plausible :-)
>
> tim
>
> tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
>
>
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