(follow up and more clear) very sluggish ethernet

Thank you everyone for the comments, but perhaps I wasn't as clear as I meant to be. The problem isn't because of network limitations. Here is my specific scenario: One PC and my PowerBook, both with gigabit (irrelevant), when hooked Directly to each other, no LAN involved, will transfer data slowly when it should have (near) full gigabit data rates. WHEN I use a 10/100 NIC on the PC connected to the PowerBook, I can obtain (near) full 100Mbps. I have even replaced the motherboard (onboard gigabit nic) to make sure my pc wasnt the issue.
Further, when the two computers are hooked into my school's lan, the pc will load web pages very quickly compared to my powerbook in which there will be a very noticeable wait time. Google even takes a good time to load. This isn't just me perceiving it to be slow. It's very obvious.

Similar Messages

Photo Booth Help! My photo booth screen is very very dark. I thought it was the screen but its at the brightest it can possibly be! So I grabbed my mothers MacBook Pro and It's much lighter and more clear. I have just the regular macbook. Please Help.

My photo booth screen is very very dark. I thought it was the screen but its at the brightest it can possibly be! So I grabbed my mothers MacBook Pro and It's much lighter and more clear. I have just the regular macbook. I also used the my camera on tumblr and it came up like my mothers. So could it just be photo booth? I also have no idea how to find out which operating system is downloaded. This is preowned.

Use the trackpad to scroll, thats what it was designed for. The scroll bars automatically disappear when not being used and will appear if you scroll up or down using the trackpad.
This is a user-to-user forum and most people will post on here if they have problems. You very rarely get people posting to say there update went smooth. The fact is the vast majority of Mountain Lion users will not be experiencing any major problems with the OS, or maybe with apps which are not compatible, but thats hardly Apple's fault if developers don't update their apps.

Time Machine prepares back ups of 10GB and more with very little activity on my computer

I have an early 2008 iMac with a Samsung 750GBHD, and I am using a Time Machine since 4 years ago working pretty well.
As of beginning 2014 it started to show many errors but at the end of the day there were 1 or 2 back ups done. During this August I realized that back ups were of a size of 10Gb and more nearly every day while the activity of the computer was very light, internet and mail. I cut an anti virus that was working on the background with no success. There is no virus activity, the comp is clean.
What could be the reason for this abnormal activity?

Only way to find out is to analyse what is actually causing the large backups.
Have you installed the widget yet??
A1 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Or you can get a software app that tells you what TM is doing since it is hardly forthcoming.
See A2
For why backups are over large.. generally.. see D4

10.6.8- since update both Macpro and Mac Air very sluggish. How do i fix?

Both computers are sluggish- so I have to assume it was something with the update which I did at the same time.
Web pages take very long to open and apps hang on launch.
Anyone else?
I tried Snow leopard cleaner and repair permissions.

web pages
Try turning off the router for 5 minutes, shut down the Macs, turn the router back on, restart the Macs.
For your apps...
Try starting up in Safe Mode on both Macs. A Safe Mode boot takes longer then a normal boot. After you are in Safe Mode click the Apple menu icon top left in the screen then click: Restart.
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode

After beat mapping Logic is very sluggish and unresponsive

I recorded a track without a click, very rubato. Then I manually played in 1/4 notes on a midi track. I used "Beats from region" on the beat mapping track. After that when the song starts to play, if I click on a track or do just about anything with the computer keyboard I get the beach ball and Logic becomes very sluggish or unresponsive. It I revert back to the previous version of the song, without the beat mapping, there is no problem. I did notice that the rubato tempo was screwing up the beat sync on the tape delay plugin, so I put it in bypass, then removed them.

In any case, personally, I avoid to use automatic function suach as Audio to Midi or auto beat mapping...
I'm an old... ... Old school musician...
when I have a song that requires rubato parts and "rallentando" or "accellerando"...
I write the score as Conductor of myself...
I prepare the song by manually editing tempo changes before start recording...
This way is very good also for musician, amateurs, students...
after editing tempo changes Logic will be your personal orchestral conductor trainer...
and will be able to test skill of performer...
the word "PRO" in Logic is focused to professional musician... including students and amateurs can enjoy a fabulous experience ... it is very similar as the musicians or soloists when they are in a professional production environment.
(this is the OLD SCHOOL way)
just my 2 cents
G

Firefox (3.6.10) is very sluggish/slow and hangs up

All of a sudden Firefox (3.6.10) is very sluggish/slow and hangs up
I've been using Firefox (very actively) for over a year now and all of a sudden (yesterday) it began to act very sluggishly. On sites I have always visited frequently it hangs up for periods of 15-90 seconds or more, won't scroll down, won't open hot links, slowly opens new tabs ...
I rebooted my PC (multiple times), powered down my modem and router, ran a Norton disk optimization - essentially making sure it was not an outside factor effecting Firefox's performance. (Note: I am using a cable connection.)
I then ran a side by side speed comparison with Internet explorer (on my 2nd monitor) going to the same web sites, and IE had no problems/hang-ups.
FYI I only have a couple of add ins/extensions (Java, Microsoft Framework, Norton, No Squint, & RealPlayer) and none of those are new within the past few weeks at least.
Any ideas on what could be causing this? How to fix? (As I much prefer Firefox to any Microsoft product.)
Thanks.

Yes, FF gets sluggish from time to time. Sorry but it's the fact! FF also cannot render some websites properly (especially v3.6.10). I'm a big fan of all Mozilla software but FF 3.6.10 makes me very disappointed.

HT6030 I have many problems with my mail since I moved to mavericks. The filter is very sensitive, read mail appears as unread, I can't drag mail to the folders and more. I can't update the mail program as directed on this page, update says my system is u

I have many problems with my mail since I moved to mavericks. The filter is very sensitive, read mail appears as unread, I can't drag mail to the folders and more. I can't update the mail program as directed on this page, update says my system is updated

I don't think that a software update from Apple will solve the issues that you are having. You have a rogue installation. After you posted I have just done the following:
Disk Utility can verify my partitioned Volume (including my boot disk) AND REPAIR the non-boot disks on the same Volume without a glitch. It repairs the non-boot disks containing data smoothly.
I have used Mail to send some mails from some Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to my Thunderbird client containing GMail accounts - absolutely normal.
I have iLife '09 but my iMovie '09 and iPhoto '09 open in a jiffy and I see no issues here. I have 6GB RAM (Maximum) on an early 2008 Macbook Pro with a 750GB hard drive partitioned with 120GB reserved for the Boot Drive.
I am sorry that I cannot help further but I am sure there must be a way to reinstall the software without having to revert to restoring your ML backup. I have two clones and if you have such I would attempt to do that through that rather than through Time Machine - that is of course if you have a cloned drive.
Good luck!

All of a sudden Firefox (3.6.10) is very sluggish/slow and hangs up

I've been using Firefox (very actively) for over a year now and all of a sudeen (yesterday) it began to act very sluggishly. On sites I have always visited frequently it hangs up for periods of 15-90 seconds or more, won't scroll down, won't open hot links, slowly opens new tabs ...
I rebooted my PC (multiple times), powered down my modem and router, ran a Norton dsik optimization - essentially making sure it was not an outside factor effecting Firefox's performance. (Note: I am using a cable connection.)
I then ran a side by side speed comparison with Internet explorer (on my 2nd monitor) going to the same web sites, and IE had no problems/hang-ups.
FYI I only have a couple of add ins/extensions (Java, Microsoft Framework, Norton, No Squint, & RealPlayer) and none of those are new within the past few weeks at least.
Any ideas on what could be causing this? How to fix? (As I much prefer Firefox to any Microsoft product.)
Thanks.

Yes, FF gets sluggish from time to time. Sorry but it's the fact! FF also cannot render some websites properly (especially v3.6.10). I'm a big fan of all Mozilla software but FF 3.6.10 makes me very disappointed.

Phone growing more and more lethargic and sluggish

Over the last two weeks my 3G iPhone has grown more and more sluggish.
Simply opening any built-in app now takes forever.
Some apps are so slow to respond that they overlap each other when switch between them or if I get a call or a text message.
I removed most third party apps, cleared caches, restored software, etc, but I'm still finding the phone is creeping along.
Could this be a hardware issue?

Zeebra wrote:
I've now made a habit of rebooting once a day to ensure snappy performance.
If you have to do this, perhaps you should visit the apple store. Its not normal, its not supposed to help, and you are not supposed to have to do this. Given the number of people reporting sim not registered problems after a reboot i'd be a little leery of doing this dail
My phone takes a 5 count (1001, 1002, 1003...) to show anything on the settings screen after I select it from the main screen. Does this if I reboot the phone or not.

Since Mountain Lion install, sometimes Safari becomes very sluggish and sometimes unresponsive, especially when it is doing autocorrect.

I have had Safari crash in one instance. And, other times it is very, very sluggish while typing a post to Facebook. I had Safari become unresponsive this afternoon, and eventually the whole system became unresponsive. I ended up having to do a power down and power up to clear the system.
Anyone got some suggestions? This behavior came about since the 10.8.1 update.

The fact that the Time and Date settings are messed up tells me a totally different battery needs replacing. There are in fact two batteries on every notebook. The one that is a regular charging battery that frequently lasts anywhere from a year and a half to longer. But then there is a battery that controls the system clock known as the PRAM battery. It is this latter battery which also speaks to the firmware of the computer. That's one which often starts losing its charge after 4 years. You are closed to that stage now, and depending on the use of your computer, you might speed its demise. You have to understand how all batteries work on the computers from http://www.apple.com/batteries/ Apple can replace the PRAM battery, and verify your firmware is correctly up to date. By the way, I agree making a clone is preferable to Time Machine, as you can't really boot from a Time Machine backup. Until your PRAM battery is replaced I think you will continue to have problems.

My iPod touch is downloading and updating apps very slow more than an hour.

My iPod touch 4th gen 32gb verson 4.3.1 is downloading and updating apps very slow more than an hour. I just got it a day ago and I backed up all my apps music and pictures and videos from iTunes. Few months ago I had an iPod touch but I lost it and it was working fine. Luckily before I lost it i backed up everything to iTunes so now everything that was in my old iPod is now in my new iPod. Anyways, When I first bought it I straight away backed up everything and saw that i had many updates on my apps. I started updating it all at once but even the first one was not loading at all and mty ipod was hanging many times during the updates so i cancelled all the updates. i even tried it on my computer and it was taking forever but my laptop does updating and downloading apps slower than my ipod so that doesnt matter. Even when I download an app on my iPod now its take more that an hour. So i was wondering, is my iPod slow cause I backed up too many things when i just got it . I have about 120 apps 150 plus photos and 70 videos and I backed it up all in one night on the day i got my ipod. So now I'm restoring my iPod and updating it to IOS 5 and see what happens. Hopefully it will be faster then but I still need to know what is main problem of m iPod hanging and slow updating/downloading. Need a reply ASAP. Thanks

Still you can switch it off while syncing.
You can also do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears)

My iPad 1 has become very sluggish, why and how to fix?

My iPad 1 has become very sluggish. Even typing often has small delays in showing letters. It seems variable, alas, so no obvious app or condition is implicated. I have closed all apps and done a cold restart but that does not help. I have the latest OS updates. Would pruning my photo library help - I usually add photos directly from my cameras and have quite a few, and they are large files.
Thanks,
Tom

Actually I was hoping you could tell me how you resolved the leopard Mail problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2673343?start=0&tstart=0

Mail slowly eats more and more Real Memory until it's super sluggish

My Mail had been giving me lots of problems.
Basically it is fine when I open it and starts to become more and more slow and unresponsive the longer I have it open. I ultimately have to quit, and it always has to be a force quite because it just gets jammed.
I started looking at Activity Monitor and have noticed that when I first run it, it uses about 150 megs of Real Memory. (I have 4gigs). Over the course of 2 hours, the Real Memory used creeps upwards and upwards, until it's over a GIG. The performance just gets worse and worse. The MB Pro's fans start whizzing away.
Anyone know why this might be happening and what I can do to stop it?
Thanks so much
Scott

Found a post in another Forum which (so far) seems to have fixed my problem:
"I spent some time on the phone with Apple tech support today. They were very helpful and appeared to have solved the problem. They had me go to iSync in the applications directory, go the Preferences and then click on Reset Sync History. First they had me log out of MobileMe, but not sure that was important. I logged back in to MobileMe. I have now been using my Mac for an hour now with no recurrance of the safarisyncclient".
Here's hoping.

Why does FireFox freeze and the only way to unfreeze it is to open the task manager and close the plugin-container.exe file??? It has been happening more and more often and it is getting VERY AGGRAVATING!!!!!

When Firefox does freeze (not responding appears in parentheses in the page tab) I am not able to access any of the webpages (the entire webpage is hidden behind a vaguely white transparent foreground) and more often than not any files I might be downloading are stopped before the entire file has been transferred - which means that I have to start those downloads from the beginning AGAIN. This has been happening for quite some time and I AM SICK AND TIRED OF IT HAPPENING!!
If it continues to happen for much longer I will swear off FireFox FOREVER!!!!! Either a program works or it does not work and lately Firefox has not worked worth a damn...........
The ONLY way to force Firefox to allow me to access it is for me to end the plugin-container.exe file process using Task Manager. Clearing there is a SERIOUS problem here that has not been resolved - why not???

The pluging container opens up unnecessary copies as the cookies/history are cleared, this is a known issue, it might be what you are seeing, and it is hoped to be fixed in some future release of firerox.
There are some hangs affecting some users, with symptoms being high cpu usage, occurring as bookmark changes or syncing is in progress, there is a work around for that.
Firefox hanging as you close it see:
*[[firefox hangs]]
* [[firefox is already running but is not responding]]

G4 very sluggish and dock icons disappeared

I have an older G4 with a Sonnet 1.4G card in it. Lately it's been acting up. It was off for a day, and when I booted tonight, all of the aliases in the dock that were not there by default had disappeared. It wouldn't run disk utility or cocktail from the boot disk. Tried running TechTool on it. Same issue. Booted from the OS 10.4 installer and ran disk utility on it, repaired permissions. No disk issues, but a few premissions got repaired. But still no love.
This machine has an Ultra-ATA card in it and a 300Gb Seagate, along with an 80G boot drive. 1.5G RAM. An old UltraSCSI card. A recent Firewire 800/400 card, as the firewire drives attached to it were not mounting properly. In other words, it's been acting more and more squirrely over the past few weeks. Maybe it's just its age. Maybe it's the six 250G Firewire drives.
G4 450Mhz with Sonnet 1.4Ghz upgrade 1.5G RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Firewire buses (2), ATA PCI Card,
G4 450Mhz with Sonnet 1.4Ghz upgrade 1.5G RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Firewire buses (2), ATA PCI Card, Adaptec UltraSCSI

James, have you checked your battery? I've had two machines suddenly start to act up in odd ways such as; all settings revert to factory defaults, "fountain of youth effect"on date/time (i.e. "1/1/1904"), once I couldn't get it to power up. I found that replacing the 3.6v battery fixed everything.
I'm not familiar with the sluggish symptoms or failure to run DU, but if you can't think of anything else, a $7 repair effort is an easy place to start. (and if it's not the problem, you can probably re-use the battery in a camera).
Dave

(follow up and more clear) very sluggish ethernet

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for