Another slow Powerbook
Hello all,
I have done searching for tips to see if I can fix the slowness myself but I need some more advice because I've tried all I can think.
I have a 12 inch G4 Powerbook 1.33 processor.
Lately is has been really slow. It has gotten progressively worse overtime. It is now to the point where I really can't use my mac effectively at all. I'm actually posting this from a different computer because the Discussion Board kept timing out. I click on something and it could take a couple minutes to react or may time out all together.
My PB is especially slow with a browser window open and another any other app. I turn off the airport card and close the browser and it suddenly runs faster. I'm using Firefox
Other system details:
I have base RAM installed. I just ordered 1GB to upgrade.
My hard drive is somewhat full but not maxed out.
I run MacJanitor regularly to clean house
I'm running 10.4.8
I've installed no new software
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks for reading my post, I know it is a long one.
Powerbook 12in Mac OS X (10.4) Very slow
Welcome to the Apple discussions.
First, running OS X Tiger on 256mb is a prescription for slowness. The additional 1GB memory should make a difference and be noticeable.
You probably know you should keep 10% of your hard drive free for system usage.
MacJanitor is fine to keep your system logs trimmed. However, there is other disk housekeeping that can be done. I periodically use OnyX for disk cleaning and maintenance functions. You can also use it to check your preference files to ensure none are corrupt. OnyX can be found at http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Some have found that backing their system up to an external hard drive, then erasing their internal drive and loading the external drive back to the hard drive can speed things up.
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All of a sudden my PowerBook G4 has become very slow. I get lots of beachballs while it is thinking what to do. It takes 5 minutes to restart and sometimes 5-10 seconds just to open a folder (with a beachball while I wait). All apps are running slow. I have a 60 GB Hard drive with 6.5 GB free space. I just run repair permissions (nothing needed to be repaired) and I veriified the drive with HD utility and it said it is OK. Here is the info on my system: Machine Name:PowerBook G4 12"Machine Model:PowerBook6,4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1) Number Of CPUs:1 CPU Speed:1.33 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU):512 KB Memory:768 MB Bus Speed:167 MHz
Message was edited by: Esteban Celis1I am getting ready to through this computer out the window. I cleaned my drive, I ran Onyx, Clean Sweep, Apple Hardware Test (how good is this, anyway? it said the memory and the drive were fine), Disk Utility repair permissions, repair disk and everybody said the computer is fine, but remained slow, slow, slow. I ordered DiskWarrior update about 1 week ago, but it has not even shipped out. I reinstalled (with achieve) my OSX 10.4 (did not bother to update to 10.4.10). It takes the computer 5 minutes to startup (time to get me to login window) and another 5 minutes to load my desktop (I only have the drive image and 3 files there). Takes 3 minutes to shutdown. Just trying to open a folder gives me a beachball and 5-10 seconds to open. Beachballs, beachballs, beachballs all the time. I guess my last resort is to completely reformat my disk. Does anybody have any final suggestions, before this goes out to the dump?
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we have two power Books one 17" and one 15" both with 1 gig of RAM. The 17" has the 7200 drive and special graphic card. The problem is that they are both slower than Christmas with 10.4.2 and all the other updates. We have used and taken care of Macs for about 10 years now with great results till now. As an idea our old Mac-8600 with a g3 chip now runs faster on OS 9.2.2 than our newer PowerBooks. ( No joke we actually timed Photoshop filters on the same files). I have tried all the utilities (tech Tool 4.0.4 and Disk Warrior 3.0.3 along with cocktail and a mess of others) all for OS 10.4. We have big graphics files but that said they never took this long to open or save. Both computers also have developed the naughty habit of going off into spins when the timer disk just spins and spins for no reason at all. Tried reinstalling, wiping the disks and new installing but no luck. I always reset permissions after installing any new software and have reset the NVRAM and PRAM till I'm blue from holding down the keys. Hay, Macs are great tools but these are failing us big time any ideas will be very welcome.
Well nothing seems to be giving a lasting answer but thanks to many hours reading the threads here and to the great little software mentioned above there does seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. first, I am limiting all the hard disks to no more than 55% capacity being used at any time by using external HD's for storage and the main Disks only for active files and programs. 2ndly I have reformatted the disks with two partitions one the main and a small one of only 5 gb that holds another system and all utilities such as Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro, Mac-Janitor, Onyx, and a lot of smaller ones. That way I can easily restart in the maintenance Disk ( I call it Crash Truck) and run all utilities from there. So far this system seems to be giving some satisfaction and a bit more speed. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
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Hi, so I have a PowerBook G4 that I got from my brother and it's slower then a snail no exaggeration. I have been trying to load iTunes for the past twenty minutes so I can update iTunes and download the photos off of my phone to my computer. It's a pretty old computer and I honestly know nothing about it really. All I know is its battery is completely dead and has to be plugged into the wall if I want it to work. Can anyone give me any tips please??
The advice Allen suggested for an upgrade of the hardware (RAM and replacement battery) in the device is the best route; since another layer of applications that run randomly in the background of an otherwise limited hardware machine can't do it any good. And cleanmymac, mackeeper, etc have successfully been proven to be worse than worthless to any version of Mac OS X no matter the vintage.
Your expectation of the vintage PowerPC G4 architecture is well beyond its ability.
If you get and use programs that hamper the efficiency of the OS X and how it works, then it would be even slower; and the best action would be to add correct quality RAM from a reputable vendor who has experience testing and will guaranty the products they sell will work in your computer. And try to get a replacement new battery so the CPU won't default to a lower processor speed.
https://www.google.com/#q=Mac+OS+X+10.5+PPC+runs+slow
Read up on the correct care of the Mac OS X and keep in mind the current support for secondary product lines such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, and others will not happen with a vintage or obsolete product. Look for a later Intel-based MacBook (a MB/Pro or Air, if new) since they were built to run OS X after Leopard 10.5.8. To use a modern iPhone or iPad, or access the App Store, you'd need at least Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Not a vintage PowerPC G4 notebook. If you had the OS X install DVD for 10.5, and other application install discs, then maybe a fresh total re-install may be helpful. But be sure you can actually go forward with it. (Ideally, you may need to make it run as good as it can, then buy a last model basic MacBook (2006-2010 vintage, see mid-2010 for recent OS X compatibility.)
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/index-powerbook-g4.html
To clean up a computer, look to the myths, legends, and methods of maintaining the system(s) involved. An active participant usually researches the interrelationship between cause and effect. The user slows down the computer from its original state; it may have seemed fast in its day, and likely was, to a degree.
http://www.thesafemac.com/tech-guides/
I'm sure some of us who've been using computers for more than 20 years, do some reading and have repaired a few dozen computers, and have a life outside of trolling the forums, have some ideas.
PS: there is no upgrade for iTunes in the PowerPC Mac or for Leopard 10.5.8.
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How can I copy everything from one G4 Powerbook to another G4 Powerbook?
I have a Powerbook which I wiped and reinstalled Leopard, updated and installed Safari 4. I would like to copy literally everything from my second G4 Powerbook with Leopard and Safari 4 to the new one, so that I have a clone with all emails, pictures, programs, tunes, etc. How can I do this? I can connect them with a firewire if required. Thanks, Bill
I use Superduper to create a bootable clone of my macpro + that works fine although it is on an external. SuperDuper's manual states you can create a clone on another computer using firewire target disk mode - but I have never tried this personally. Both macs would have to have the same type of processor - you cannot create a clone of an intel mac and run it on a power pc mac. Carbon Copy cloner, a similar, free & ewually praised program may also be able to do this but I haven't used this - maybe another user who uses that program can advise?
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Another slow MacBook Pro. PLEASE HELP.
I have a Macbook pro 2010. It is slow.
I did an Etrecheck and pasted something that was in another forum into my Terminal.
This is my Etrecheck
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics - VRAM: 288 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 2 days 22:34:8
Disk Information:
ST9500325ASG disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Untitled (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (67.47 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[kext loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.0.11 - SDK 10.7) Support
[kext loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.0.3 - SDK 10.8) Support
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.autoupdate.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.configuration.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.intercheck.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.notification.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.scan.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.sxld.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.webd.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Steam
NIHardwareAgent
Internet Plug-ins:
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Safari Extensions:
AdBlock: Version: 2.6.37
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player Support
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Destinations:
Seagate Backup Plus Drive [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 931.19 GB
Total number of backups: 1
Oldest backup: 2014-05-18 03:30:29 +0000
Last backup: 2014-05-18 03:30:29 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 931.19 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
25% InterCheck
8% Google Chrome
8% repair_packages
4% WindowServer
3% uTorrent
Top Processes by Memory:
92 MB repair_packages
63 MB InterCheck
58 MB Google Chrome
41 MB Google Chrome Helper
30 MB iPhoto
Virtual Memory Information:
21 MB Free RAM
636 MB Active RAM
625 MB Inactive RAM
941 MB Wired RAM
17.68 GB Page-ins
2.06 GB Page-outs
I typed this into the Terminal
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|find tok|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef
and this was the result.
Jun 5 20:57:37 Maxwells-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Process Setup Assistant [195] disabling system-wide I/O Throttling
Jun 5 22:37:06 maxwells-mbp kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 20698
Jun 8 18:44:56 maxwells-mbp kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 193843
Jun 8 19:19:42 maxwells-mbp kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 195383
Thank you to all the helpful and knowledgable people out there. We would all be lost and have broken computer screens without you.Hey All,
I just did another EtreCheck.
these are the results.
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics - VRAM: 288 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 1 day 10:39:56
Disk Information:
ST9500325ASG disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Untitled (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (65.07 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[kext loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.0.11 - SDK 10.7) Support
[kext loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.0.3 - SDK 10.8) Support
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.autoupdate.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.configuration.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.intercheck.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.notification.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.scan.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.sxld.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.webd.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist Support
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Safari Extensions:
AdBlock: Version: 2.6.37
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player Support
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Destinations:
Seagate Backup Plus Drive [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 931.19 GB
Total number of backups: 1
Oldest backup: 2014-05-18 03:30:29 +0000
Last backup: 2014-05-18 03:30:29 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 931.19 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
4% WindowServer
1% SophosAutoUpdate
1% SophosUIServer
1% mds
1% mds_stores
Top Processes by Memory:
137 MB PluginProcess
124 MB iTunes
97 MB Safari
57 MB WindowServer
41 MB com.apple.WebKit.Networking
Virtual Memory Information:
19 MB Free RAM
881 MB Active RAM
868 MB Inactive RAM
823 MB Wired RAM
1.70 GB Page-ins
79 MB Page-outs
Thanks -
Just another thread to document the major issues I'm having with Lightroom 4.
System: Dell Studio XPS running Windows 7 Home Premium, Intel i7-720QM, 8 GB RAM 1333MHz, 500 GB HD, ATI Radeon 4670 1GB with Wacom Intuos 5
Working in the Develop module has been completely unacceptable and is costing me hours of editing time and frustrating, which means its costing me money. Everything from navigating between photos to adjusting slider bars seems to be laggy to put it lightly. After using the Adjustment Brush, making universal changes is taking forever! And if I got back to create an additional adjustment with the Adjustment Brush tool, it's almost not even worth it because it is so slow to respond. Similar to the slow downs after using the Adjustment Brush tool, any changes made after making any adjustments in the Lens Correction tab seem to be super sluggish as well. Oh top of it all, my computer is running extremely hot when running Lightroom, which ever occured in past versions!
I've tried several suggestions that I've seen in forums, such as creating a fresh Catalog and importing the files directly into that new Catalog, hiding the Histogram to free up resources, reducing the size of the Catalog to just the working set I'm currently working on... I've now installed the 4.1 RC and do seem to see some increase in response with the sliders within the develop module, but once I start using the Adjustment Brush and Lens Correction, it seems to be back to it's sluggish self. And after editing a few photos, the entire program is crawling.
I think it's great that Adobe has such a strong following that people seem to be so understanding and patient about these issues, but find it unacceptable that such an unpolished release was issued to the public. If the issues are eventually remedied I will be fully on board with Lightroom, once again, because I do think that the revamped develop module has been a major improvement for editing and workflow, but all those improvements are pretty useless when I'm losing so many hours battling with performance issues.No changes, nothing at all, in actual fact I don't even have a PC connected to this broadband line it's purely for the games consoles. I have a separate broadband line for my home office etc.
Just had a call from BT India, with out wishing to sound derogatory I might as well talk to my pet cat. Apparently they were ringing to see if the problem had been resolved, I only reported it 2 hrs ago. -
Hi all, trying to find out why such as slow speed. I live about 1/4 mile from the exchange. Have phoned BT 2 weeks ago who said an engineer will look in to it, but not heard anything as yet. So was trying to see if its a prob within the house. We only have the 1 socket in the house.
Thanks for any help or ideas .
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Downstream
576 Kbps
Upstream
288 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
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PPPoA
Modulation
G.992.1 Annex A
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Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up)
30.3 dB / 29.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
15.2 dB / 8.0 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
12.4 dBm / 1.6 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
1 / 1
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote)
1 / 1
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Go to Solution.Surprise surprise, yep on a fixed line 512. First guy i spoke to at sales said he hadn't heard of a half meg contract, then i said a FL 512 and he said "oh, i'll just have a look for you " came back and said he would transfer me to another sales dept who might be able to sort out a new contract. Next guy, when i told him the situation and the FL512 he said " yeah, thats exactally what you've got ". Sorted a new deal and hopefully should be getting 7.5mb next week. So i hope i wont be back here next week !
Thanks for your help
Steve -
Hi,
I have a 15" Powerbook G4 1.67 with 1.5gb of ram which is about 2 years old. Its been great but I've formatted it about 3 times since buying it for various reasons. Lately I noticed it was getting very slow boot times and certain apps like firefox etc were taking forever to load. After a while i formated it again to get a clean slate. All good so far until a week ago, one day, it took ages to boot after i shut it down. I only had cs2 installed and about 5gb of music (very empty in comparison to my usual load). It started taking so long that i had to force shut it down even before the login screen ever appeared. Once i finally managed to load it up i decided, to format once again to clear whatever it was that was making it so sluggish having already tired pram reset, disk utility permission repairing, disk repairing. While i was installing it restarted as usual only it wasnt getting past the grey screen with apple logo...force shut down (i had to!) a couple of times later still not working...when i timed it, it was over an hour still on that grey screen. It still hadn't finished installing the second disk! Finally managed to get it running and finally get my os to work...SLOWLY!
I really don't know what's wrong. I'm beginning to feel that it's the beginnings of my hard drive failing with the use and old age (and i know that doing all these things to it puts extra strain to it but still!!). I use a work computer most of the time so this one has been limited to after work hours and weekends for a while...so it doesn't seem to justify this behaviour...
I'm running out of ideas to cure this ailment of mine... anyone have similar problems or can think of a solution? I have everythign backed up so its not so urgent/important/life or death in that aspect but i just really want it run smoothly again...
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!
*my drive is a toshiba one by the way...saw some post regarding these hard drives once...Cloning goes hand-in-hand with backing up:
Thanks to that Tuttle guy for:
Start by formatting your external drive. Select the drive in Disk Utility (the uppermost icon related to the drive), then click the Erase button in the upper middle of the DU window. In the new pane, next to Volume Format, choose to format the drive as Mac OS Extended. You don't need to choose the option to journal the volume at this time.
When creating an initial clone, it's always safe practice to write zeros to the target drive. Click on the Security Options button, choose to write zeros to the drive and click Okay. Then click Erase. Writing zeros may take a couple of hours to do on a 300GB drive, but you just need to do it this once. Afterward, just clicking the Erase button will be sufficient unless bad blocks or similar problems develop in the future. Give the new volume a name that is distinct from the name of your PB's volume (i.e. not Macintosh HD1).
Once the drive is erased and formatted, repair permissions on the source drive, launch SuperDuper! or CCC, set the Source and Target volumes and clone.
One note: In CCC, make sure that the only option you select in CCC's preferences is "Make Bootable." If you use SuperDuper!, you don't have to worry about that (though it will ask you if you are sure that you want to erase the target volume. Choose Yes.)
When the clone is finished, select the new volume in System Preferences > Startup Disk and click Restart. When you've booted into the clone, immediately open System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver and change the desktop picture so you know which volume you're booted from just by looking. Next, open Disk Utility and repair permissions on the cloned volume. After this, you can click on the Enable Journaling button in the Disk Utility toolbar at the top of the window.
After this, shut down your computer. After two minutes, start up your computer, pressing the Option key immediately after the startup chime. This will take you to the Startup Manager screen where you will choose the cloned volume to start from in order to test whether or not it is truly bootable. If it boots fine, go through it and test some apps to see if everything is in order. If all is well, choose the PB's drive in System Preferences > Startup Disk and restart. When you restart, remember to reselect the PB as the startup volume in System Pref's > Startup Disk as well.
Joe -
Another slow iphoto problem. Stats inside.
OK folks, I have to join in now. iPhoto 09, 8.0.2 (update didn't do anything speed-wise), MBP 2.2 4GB RAM, plenty of HD space. My user is FileVaulted.
62,600 picts, 850 movies, 128GB DB.
Yes, it's excessively big. I've rebuilt, re thumbnailed, etc (I've selected all the checkboxes except the last one, when you start up iPhoto holding the option key)
The big library worked fine in '08.
Startup time: 3 minutes
Go from Event view to an event: 1:15 min
Go from event back to Event view: 1:20 min
It begins to speed up some after this, but she's still ugly.
As you can see, it's not usable.
I'm going to vacuum the DB next, but man, if something were to go wrong and I lost photos, It'd be hard for me to tell. I'll do a backup of course, but the problem with that is that FileVault backs up all at once, so I can't do another backup until I'm satisfied I didn't lose anything.)
One thing that's interesting- firing up iPhoto 09 only seems to use one processor when it starts- that might just be old code, but I thought it'd use both. (one proc is at 100%, the other is at 8%.)
I don't see anything spouted out in Console either...
-Anyone else find FileVault to be a culprit?
-iPhoto only uses one processor when booting?
-I'm always looking for pros/cons on vacuuming the DB.
Thanks guys-Firevault has to encode files on the fly both as saving and reading. That definitely will slow down many operations like iPhoto and iDVD. Personally I won't use FV as there have been issues with having to have the same volume of free space as in the FV in order to recover and other functions. The best protection is run in a non administrative user account and use a very good password for access.
Here's a trick that was posted on MacOSXHints regarding speeding up iPhoto 09:
Speed up iPhoto '09 by vacuuming its databasesMon, Mar 2 2009 at 7:30AM PST • Submitted by wjv
My iPhoto '08 used to start in seconds despite the 30,000+ photos I kept in it. But after I installed iLife '09 and upgraded my iPhoto library, iPhoto '09 would hang for several minutes with the dreaded beach ball on startup. Even worse, though was that opening any event would trigger another hang of a minute or more, as would viewing a photo full-screen. (Once these initial hangs were over and done with, the app would work normally.)
Inside the iPhoto Library Package, there are four SQLite databases (face_blob.db, face.db, iPhotoAux.db and iPhotoMain.db). I found that by vacuuming all four of these databases, I restored iPhoto '09's performance back to something on par with its predecessor.
Open Terminal and cd into your iPhoto Library by typing: cd ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library
NOTE: or you can type cd and a space and then drag your library into the Terminal window.
Once there, execute the following command:
for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase "vacuum;"; done
I've run it and it seems to work. My library wasn't large so didn't notice a big improvement but there was some. Others have reported big improvements. -
Slow Powerbook - should I wipe and reinstall?
My Powerbook G4 aluminium (1Gb) is exactly one year old. It's now become quite slow, annoying me. I can only think/hope that it's due to sheer weight of software running, disk space used etc.
As a general rule, will wiping the drive clean and performing a factory OS reinstall, as per Apple setup disc, result in quicker performance, maybe back to original factory settings (before I start adding software again)?
What are the factors here?
I really want my Mac to perform like it used to. So is this a good option for me?
I'd need to buy a backup drive to perform the operation and would need further advice on what kind of backup to make (ie. wipe the drive and start over, or only reinstall the OS, how to retain things like iTunes/iPhoto library).
Many thanks for your advice.if your problem is software related, then yes, a reinstall would make the machine run properly again if you do a complete reinstall. have you done any disk maitenance http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 or created a test user to see if your problems are user specific?? the problem might be easily remedied without a reinstall. if you do a clean install of the operating system and there are still problems with the computer, and you haven't reintroduced any third party software, then you have a hardware problem. if you have a backup of info, it's a good way to determine if something is hardware or software related.
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Just got a new PowerBook high-rez 15" and it's great! However, I've downloaded the 10.4.3 update and it now boots up really really slow and also takes a long time to shut down. This is frustrating considering the PowerBook was previously really fast to boot up and shut down.
Thanks in advance for any help.I'm having the same problem and will try it. Also, my wife has a 12" PB and is experiencing the same problem. But, note, that you cannot really run a thorough repair permissions from the disk you are trying to repair. It'd be best to do it while booting from the system disk.
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Another Slow Sky Fibre BB.......but could it be....
.....sky capping my usage? I recently cancelled the tv part of my package as we did not watch it, mainly because ive got an android tv box with XBMC/KODI on which we stream tv shows and movies on. We can watch what we want, when we want with no bloody adverts etc.. When i phoned up to cancel the advisor said that the monthly usage was one of the highest they had seen, 400GB+ a month. Could sky have slowed down my usages speed because of this? Find it weird that last month and previous months i was getting 28-34Mbps, but since ive spokent o sky and cancelled my tv its now down to 15-17Mbps I use speedtest and also checked sky-maintenance (via router) and that speed says 17998 DownStream Connection Speed. Its been like that for 4 days now. I check it evryday. At work at the moemnt so i cannot do anything about it but maybe theres stuff i can do when i get home so any help would be appreciated.
Funny enough the same thing has happened to me.Although I'm not on fibre optic about 2 weeks ago my android box stopped working.I haven't had a problem since I bought the box in February.I even got another box to double check ,in case my original box was broken. Everything else streams in the house ok,apart from the boxes.Coincedence or what.?.My contract is up in November so I will be moving on.
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MacBook wireless slow; PowerBook not...
My wife's MacBook is having some weird wireless slowdown issues that I can't isolate. Her MB sits on a desk next to my PowerBook (G4 1Ghz 17inch). We're both connected to the AirPort Extreme (Base Station with no modem - model M8930LL - which is connected to the cable modem) and have the same signal strength. However, my PB loads webpages as fast as it ever has but her MB loads pages incredibly slowly. We're both running 10.4.10 with all the latest relevant patches.
Anyone got any ideas?The problem is with the 10.4.10 update - look around the forum here.
I have sitting on my desk in front of me two Macbooks.. Both have 2 gigs of RAM, and both are connected to the same linksys access point. The only difference is that the black Macbook is running 10.4.10 and the white one is running 10.4.9.
Pinging the same machine on the local network, the black Macbook is getting ping rates as slow as 1500-2000ms where the white one is getting 1-2ms.
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Slow Powerbook - failing hard drive, or worse?
Hi folks,
I've been scouring the net for solutions to this for the past couple of days now, and now I'm fed up enough to ask for help if anyone could care to offer it.
I've had my PB G4 (running 10.3.9) for two wonderful and (up until this week) problem-free years - not a single hiccup or crash since taking it out of the box!
About five days ago, it gradually started to slow down out of the blue. At first I thought it was something hogging CPU cycles, but looking through Activity Monitor didn't show anything out of the ordinary. As the days passed, I noticed that it has been starting up slower and slower, and even lags considerably when running the most pedestrian of tasks. On some occasions, it will appear fine for about an hour or two; sometimes, the whole thing will lock up or I will get the "pinwheel" cursor for so long that the whole OS becomes unusable.
My search for answers seem to indicate that my hard drive is failing; a subsequent run of Disk Utility hasn't shown anything out of the ordinary, but I went ahead and (slowly) repaired permissions, cleaned out logs/caches myself, ran OnyX, etc, but none of these seem to have done any good. (I've also tried resetting the PMU, but to similar results)
It doesn't seem to be rooted with anything in terms of RAM installation issues (it's stayed at the built-in 256mb this whole time), but I wouldn't rule that out, either.
Two peculiar details that I should probably mention: I inadvertently discovered that, occasionally, tilting the computer back for a moment will speed things up just a bit. This is where I'm beginning to think that there is a physical problem with the drive itself. (As a footnote to this, the computer has never been dropped and stays on a desk all day)
Secondly, I've started to hear a very faint beep or two come from the machine. It doesn't seem to be coming from the speakers; I've experimented with it to see if it's something I'm doing that's causing it, but I haven't been able to pin it down.
So, to cut this short, fearing the worst, I've gone ahead and backed up all of my data onto an external drive. I'm considering doing a clean re-installation of Panther to see what that does, but any information or suggestions beyond this that someone could offer me would be greatly appreciated.
Powerbook G4 (12 inch) Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Powerbook G4 (12 inch) Mac OS X (10.3.9)fukei:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Your computer may or may not have HDD problems. Indeed there could a number of things causing the symptoms you (your PBook) is/are experiencing.
You have made a good start backing up your data. I am not sure how or what you did, but one of the best ways is to clone the entire volume to an external Firewire HDD using a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Be sure you make a bootable clone so that it can be used as an emergency boot drive, or to run tests on your computer without having to boot from disks.
Next, OS X maintenance. I don't know what kind of regular maintenance you do, but if you have not been doing Unix maintenance (CRON cleaning) that could be partly what is slowing you up. Gulliver's ariticle Mac OS X System Maintenance has excellent tips of the kind of maintenace that will help your mac. He also has links to resources, most of them free, that can make a difference for you. In addition you should check out Dr. Smoke's FAQ Tuning Mac OS X Performance for helpful hints on tuning up your mac.
O, yes, your HDD. Boot from your install disk and launch Disk Utility as when you run Repair Disk. With your HDD (manufacturer's ID) selected in the left panel look down at the bottom right at the S.M.A.R.T Status. If it says Verified your HDD is ok for now. If it says Failing update your backup and start searching for a replacement HDD. Be sure to buy the largest capacity one you can afford, as these things have a way of filling up.
Re-install? That is always an option, but should be considered an avenue of last resort. Try the other things first and see how it goes. And do post back and let me know how it's going, and especially if you have further questions, comments or concerns.
Good luck.
cornelius
Message was edited by: cornelius
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