10.4.5 update - goodbye performance - hello spinning beach ball!
After updating from 10.4.4 to 10.4.5 I've had shocking performence issues.
It maily seems to affect the simple tasks...
Opening a new window (ie, one not cached into memory) takes between 2 and 5 seconds before the icons are displayed. No matter if you're in Icon view, column view, or list view.
I have a Dual 2Ghz G5 with a 500GB SATA and 2.5GB RAM, this should NOT be a problem, and it never was before I updated to 10.4.5. The OS X installation is only about 1 month old as well.
Simple GUI tasks such as opening menus, single-clicking on icons, control clicking dock items, rolling over a dock item to make the name appear, etc are ALL VERY SLUGGISH. I'm talking about 2-3 seconds minimum before anything happens. But once it's done (ie, cached) it's fine and normal if I do it again.
This doesn't just affect the Finder, it affects ALL applications!
This is a disgrace. I've tried fixing permisions but it doesn't help.
I've tried shouting "YOU. ARE. A. G5." but it doesn't help.
How am I supposed to get anything productive done when even the simplist tasks are too much for it?
Dual 2Ghz G5, 2.5GB RAM, 500GB HD, 250GB HD Mac OS X (10.4.5) ATI RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB
Hi Mark
I found the similar problem on my G5 in 10.4.3.
I asked a Tech in the local AppleCentre and he said this...
"Press « Apple S-key » at Start up.
What you'll get is the Unix black screen with white writing.
Once it has finished booting up, type in « fsck -f » that's « fsck[space]-f »
That should fix the problem."
Hopefully it does for you.
Regards
Steve
PS I sent this info to Allan, who asked you the question
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Before the update (which I could of sworn I updated once before, but it just asked me to update again & it popped up in software update...) I never had a problem. Now iTunes spinning beach balls me every time.
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2008/12/19 上午 1:44:42 Finder[157] IMKClient: exception caught trying to get the rootProxy for connection ((** NSConnection 0x64e820 receivePort <NSMachPort: 0x69b050> sendPort <NSMachPort: 0x6f5590> refCount 7 **)):
NSPortTimeoutException : connection timeout: did not receive reply
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Are you using input methods? It looks to me like you have set a simplified Chinese input method. I'm curious what it is. If my guess is correct, then if you disable that input method, you shouldn't have the problem. You will need to remove it from the input methods folder inside of /Library/InputMethods.
Also, what is the input method you're using?
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