Horrible Performance on MBP

Hey Guys,
I was recommended to post my Topic here again.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9384292#9384292
Hope someone can help.

I'm pasting your xbench results you posted in the other thread since its awkward and frustrating to be bouncing back and forth between this thread and another one.
Results 56.49
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200BJKT-00F4T0
Disk Test 56.49
Sequential 91.07
Uncached Write 104.51 64.17 MB/sec 4K blocks
Uncached Write 95.33 53.94 MB/sec 256K blocks
Uncached Read 70.68 20.69 MB/sec 4K blocks
Uncached Read 102.94 51.74 MB/sec 256K blocks
Random 40.94
Uncached Write 14.11 1.49 MB/sec 4K blocks
Uncached Write 145.53 46.59 MB/sec 256K blocks
Uncached Read 84.06 0.60 MB/sec 4K blocks
Uncached Read 124.00 23.01 MB/sec 256K blocks
Your disk is not out of line with my numbers if you're having performance problems its not disk related.
Here's my xbench score to compare, now keep in mind that I ran this test while having a ton of programs so my score will be artificially low, that is I'm running rapidweaver VMware Fusion, quicktime pro, textmate, itunes, safari, mail, etc.
Results 194.46
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02
CPU Test 142.99
Thread Test 342.04
Memory Test 181.47
Quartz Graphics Test 191.67
OpenGL Graphics Test 161.45
User Interface Test 345.63
Disk Test 39.48
Sequential 86.57
Uncached Write 90.69 55.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 98.03 55.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 61.21 17.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 115.75 58.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 25.57
Uncached Write 8.40 0.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 76.02 24.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.40 0.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 111.91 20.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
so given that my numbers appear much higher then yours ( I have a 2.53 MBP and I have no idea what you have) you may want to run the Apple Hardware Test to make sure everything is running as it should. If that checks out a possible call/visit to your apple store, especially if its a brand new MBP

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Another "horrible performance after upgrading to Lion" post

Hi,
Sorry for yet another "my computer has horrible performance after upgrading to Lion" post. I did search the forum before posting.
I have a relatively new Macbook Pro, 8 GB RAM, 2.8 MHz Intel i7 CPU. I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, then Lion to 10.7.2.
The first time I upgraded, I no longer had my user account, so restored from Time Machine back to SL. After a month or so, I hoped Apple had fixed the bug, so I redownloaded and reinstalled, and this time the upgrade succeeded.
Ever since the upgrade, my MBP runs like a dog. I get the spinning beach ball constantly, across all range of applications, both Apple and 3rd party. Occasionally it doesn't wake up from sleep (close, open lid) and I have to kick it in the head by holding down the power button.
I've tried booting into the recovery partition, running disk utility, and repairing disk and permissions. I've read elsewhere (Google hit) that doing a completely clean install fixes the performance issues (for those users anyway).
I know this is a fairly generic post, but any advice on how to maximize machine performance under Lion, or should I revert to Snow Leopard? Do I really have to wipe the disk, install fresh, restore all non-OS files (don't accidentally wipe a required OS file), then reapply the 10.7.2 maintenance? Yuck.
Thanks,
Scott

try an SMC reset if you are not seeing any weird spikes in Activity Monitor and you've deduced that none of your third party drivers or apps are interfearing with the way lion works.
Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own
Note: Portable computers that have a battery you should not remove on your own include MacBook Pro (Early 2009) and later, all models of MacBook Air, and MacBook (Late 2009).
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

Horrible Performance On Good Hardware + Usability Questions

I downloaded the most recent iTunes version as of 1 week ago, to use to sync and backup my iPhone.
I have a few complaints: Horrible performance. Clicking on just about any node, and it takes 5-10 seconds to load whatever window it is calling. Navigation from any menu to another is just a disaster. My PC is XP Pro with 4 GB installed RAM, an Intel 3 GHZ processor, and a 10,000 RPM hard drive and solid mid range gaming video card. All other applications work very quickly.
Second, is there a decent way to search the App Store? From my phone I can easily search on a key word, but in iTunes the advanced search doesn't seem to just search apps, it searches all. I figure I MUST be missing something!
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It's a long shot, but you might try temporarily disabling any antivirus and antispyware applications you may have on your system, including Windows Defender if you installed it, and see if that makes any difference. I've encountered situations, albeit rare, where such a utility gets "overzealous" and starts scanning every activity for an app, thereby slowing it down. You probably want to disconnect from the Internet while you make such tests just to help ensure nothing sneaks onto your system.
If that doesn't help, you might try completely removing and reinstalling QuickTime and iTunes. Instructions can be found here:
Bugie: Perform a Thorough & Complete Uninstall and Reinstall of iTunes/QuickTime.
Make sure you make a backup of any content you've purchased from the iTunes Store or that would otherwise be difficult to replace, just in case something goes wrong.
Not much positive help, I know, but perhaps it might do some good.
Regards.

Anyone using a 12 Core Mac Pro? I have HORRIBLE performance issues .. Help!

After the latest 10.7.4 Mac OS X update I have extremely horrible performance issues with AE ... and they were not so great before the update.
It is still stabilizing ... but an 1:19 clip in SD is taking 12 HOURS TO analyze and stabilize. !!!
The 12 cores are barely being used and this problem has been an issue since I purchased the suite over a year ago.
Does anyone else have problems using AE on their 12 CORE MAC PRO?
REPLY ONLY IF YOU HAVE A 12 CORE MAC PRO PLEASE.
There must be a problem because since the update ... Adobe Encore is PERFECT .. and ALL 12 CORES MAX OUT and the encoding is quick!!
I also have major problems between PP and AE using Dynamic link .. and slow renders in PP.
Everything else works fine .. other apps / other vendors.
I am calling Adobe today.

Thank you for your time.
I am using a 12 Core 2.93 GHZ with 32 GB RAAM and a NVidia GTX 285.
I also have a Areca 1212 PCI RAID Card. ( NOTE: I HAVE A SERIOUS RAID DRIVER PROBLEM NOW. THE RAID IS DISCONNECTED )
Mac OS X 10.7.4
Adobe Master Suite 5.5
The Apple "Console" app logs a whole lot of these three Adobe related errors:
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Only half of my hyperthreaded processors are active when using AE "Warp Stabilizer". This issue was addressed before in the Forums. There was no solution. I dont' know if it is any better in CS 6.
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Question:
What RAID card are you using?
Do you use the Warp Stabilizer?

Horrible performance with JDK 1.3.1!

There is something very weird going on with Solaris (SPARC) JDK 1.3.1
Hotspot Server jvm. We have an existing application which gets a large
resultset back from the database, iterates over it and populates two int[]
arrays.
The operation iterates thru a 200,000 row resultset, which has three
interger columns.
Here are the performance numbers for various jdk (hotspot 2.0) combinations:
Using Solaris JDK1.2.2_05a with the jit: 3 seconds
Using Solaris JDK1.3.0 -server: <3 seconds
Using Windows JDK1.3.1 -server: <3 seconds
Using Solaris JDK1.3.1 -client: 7 seconds
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As you can see the solaris 1.3.1 -server is having horrible performance, 60X
worse than jdk1.3.0 -server and 1.2.2_05a with jit. I thought it was a
problem with 1.3.1 on solaris, so I tried the 1.3.1 -client and while the
performance was much better than 3 minutes, it still was slower than (which
I expected since -client is meant for client side apps). I have no idea why
this is happening. Below are the details of the problem.
Oracle 8.1.7 on solaris 2.7
Solaris 2.6
Oracle Thin JDBC driver for 8.1.7 (classes12.zip)
Code:
String strQuery = "select entity_id, entity_child, period_id" +
" FROM entity_map" +
" WHERE entity_id >=0" +
" AND period_id in (" + sEmptyPeriodIds + ")" +
" ORDER BY period_id, entity_id ";
boolean bAddedChildren = false;
int intEntityId;
int intChildId;
int intPeriodId;
//objDatabse just wraps creation and execution of resultset
rs = objDatabase.executeSQLAndReturnResultSet( strQuery );
//Timing start here
while ( rs.next() )
intEntityId = rs.getInt( 1 );
intChildId = rs.getInt( 2 );
intPeriodId = rs.getInt( 3 );
// embo.addEntityMap( intPeriodId, intEntityId, intChildId );
bAddedChildren = true;
//Timing ends here
If anyone has had similiar problems, I'd love to hear about it.
Something is really really wrong with how 1.3.1 -server is optimizing the
oracle jdbc code. Problem is that this is a black box, with no source
available. Doesn't oracle test new versions of sun jvm's when they come
out??
Thanks,
Darren
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Darren,
Good luck on trying to get any support for JDK 1.3.x with the ORACLE drivers. ORACLE doesn't support JDK 1.3.x yet. We've had other problems with the ORACLE 8.1.7 drivers. Have you tried running the same bench marks using the 8.1.6 or 8.1.6.2 drivers? I would be interested to find out if the performance problems are driver related or just JVM.
-Peter
See http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum8/HTML/003853.html
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Horrible performance drop with mixed ports 100 & 1000 on the LAN side.

I have horrible performance with newly bought lrt224.
WAN side is a 150 Mb/s Cable connection.
LAN has 3 ports at 1Gb/s and 1 port at 100 Mb/s
Test:
On any of the lan ports at 1 Gb/s I do a test via speedtest.net and get 150 Mb/s
On the Lan port at 100 Mb/s I do a test via speedtest.net and get 10 Mb/s (same server)
Weird part, I do a LAN (1Gb/s) to LAN (100Mb/s) test I get around 99Mb/s.
Second weird part, I replace WAN side cable modem with a VDSL+ line and I get max VDSL+ performance of 75 Mb/s.
Any hints?

CABLE modem stats (bad perf):
Ping statistics for 46.228.47.115:
Packets: Sent = 83, Received = 83, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 106ms, Average = 32ms
Tracing route to fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com [46.228.47.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 20.20.20.1
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 27 ms 17 ms 9 ms d51a50801.access.telenet.be [81.165.8.1]
4 14 ms 17 ms 11 ms dD5E0CC79.access.telenet.be [213.224.204.121]
5 * 15 ms 20 ms dD5E0FA01.access.telenet.be [213.224.250.1]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 19 ms 14 ms 24 ms nl-ams05a-rd1-te-6-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.101]
8 20 ms 16 ms 13 ms pat2.ams.yahoo.com [80.249.209.163]
9 35 ms 34 ms 30 ms ae-5.pat2.iry.yahoo.com [66.196.65.154]
10 33 ms 33 ms 35 ms ae-3.msr1.ir2.yahoo.com [66.196.67.243]
11 28 ms 29 ms 34 ms et-18-10.bas2-2-prd.ir2.yahoo.com [77.238.186.47]
12 33 ms 26 ms 32 ms ir2.fp.vip.ir2.yahoo.com [46.228.47.114]
VDSL modem stats (good one):
Ping statistics for 46.228.47.114:
Packets: Sent = 68, Received = 68, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 44ms, Maximum = 110ms, Average = 46ms
Tracing route to fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com [46.228.47.115]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 20.20.20.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
3 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 109.131.160.1
4 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms ae-62-100.iarstr4.isp.belgacom.be [91.183.241.240]
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6 * * * Request timed out.
7 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms 94.102.162.147
8 * * * Request timed out.
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Macbook Pro - horrible performance - what can I do???

Macbook Pro 15"
Late model 2010 (December)
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM
500GB HDD (437GB/37GB Mac HDD/Bootcamp)
Hi,
When I got my MBP in Dec 2010, it was very snappy running Snow Leopard.
My initial upgrade to Lion (Apple's version of MS Vista? LOL) had issues, I restored from Time Machine, but eventually got it installed. Almost immediately, the performance drastically reduced.
Eventually, I took it into Apple, they re-installed Lion from scratch (wiped the hard disk), and I did a partial restore from Time Machine. There's no guarantee I didn't regress some system files from my Time Machine backup.
The install of Mountain Lion was uneventful - the app store upgrade ran fine.
I was also getting a number of kernel panics, which were eventually isolated to (I think?) the GPU. Apple replaced the GPU under the Apple Care warrantee.
So, ever since moving off the original operating system, my MBP has had horrid performance. Some days worse than others, but lately very bad.
However, the timing could be a coincidence - I have also installed a number of third party tools (as we all do), and my HDD has 12GB out of 437GB left. At times it has had < 1GB before I copied files to an external USB drive. I don't deny my MBP could be bloated.
Sometimes when I close the laptop lid, then reopen it, the screen never recovers. 5 mins later the display is still black, and I have to cycle power. Sometimes just tabbing to a new text input field within Safari can take 30 seconds to move to the next field. Numerous other performance problems, I'm so sick of the spinning beach ball.
So, with that as background, some questions:
1) Any general advice on addressing poor performance under OS X 10.8.2?
2) Are there any *good quality* tools I can use to fix poor performance? I installed Mackeeper 2012 for about 10 minutes, before further web research convinced me to uninstall immediately. But I do like the concept, if a reputable company puts out a similar product. What about Clean My Mac???
3) Are there any tools available to test my hardware? I know Apple have them - that's how they detected the bad GPU. I'd like to run a full diagnostic check of my hardware.
(However, I also booted into Boot Camp. Windows 7 was very snappy, with the same hardware available to OS X. I suspect my problem is software related. Performance of the Boot Camp images under Parallels 8 is abysmal. Yes, I know a VM adds overhead, but Windows used to be just fine under Parallels.)
4) Or should I just take it to the Genius Bar under my Apple Care coverage? I've got 10 months left on the 3 year warrantee.
Any other advice more than welcome. Right now, I'm close to just wiping the disk and installing Windows 7 ;-). At this point, it really is unworkable, the performance is that bad. I really *want* to like my Mac and OS X, but lately I think "It Just Works" is just a bunch of marketing hype ;-).
Thanks,
Scott

Thanks for the quick reply...
1) Can I reinstall Mountain Lion from the recovery partition? I know I could with Lion; I assume the app store upgrade to Mountain Lion updates the recovery partition?
2) How do I run a hardware diagnostics on my HDD? Is there a utility that comes with Mountain Lion, or do I need to go to Apple?
3) Are there known apps that cause problems? I totally agree with your advice above - I should have thought of it lol - but it will be a PITA to implement. I can post a list of my apps if that will help. Note that the poor performance occurs even when few apps are actually active, and happens shortly after a restart.
4) How do I know what a TRUSTED app is? For example, I've got Chrome, but I've heard it has ahem "issues" on the Mac. But I don't know if that's the *cause* of the poor performance.
(Oops...ignore question #2, I'll search for how to do this...)
In short, if there is a way to shortcut these diagnostics, that would help. But yeah, I can see that what you suggest will probably what I end up doing ;-/
Thanks again,
Scott

CS3 on mac - horrible performance

Can anyone on a G5 Mac, or any non-intel mac for that matter,
confirm my findings: CS3 is running slow and crappily compared to
CS2. Pull down menus are horrible (like the site list menu), just
bad. Aside from Photoshop CS3 taking longer to save files, all the
other CS3 programs are the same speed or slightly better, yet
Dreamweaver is bad. Bad enough for me to go back to CS2 so I can
actually get some work done.
I won't even mention some of the other quirks that have
changed like color pickers.
Am I alone? I almost stupidly bought a new Mac Pro just to
get my speed back that I used to have before I wised up and went
back to CS2.

I have the latest Wacom drivers for my model - it's the same driver for all Intuos and Cintiq models. Besides, as I said - the performance is perfect in all other software, except Flash. And also as I said - in Flash CS6 the performance is better than CS5.5, but not better than CS3... It is acceptable though, because it's rare that I will draw such fast lines - in my case I can see a clear difference in performance if I draw fast or slow. I have tried to compare results on my older MacBook Pro and I get similar results...

Sluggish performance, 2008 MBP

My wife's 2008 MBP has been acting sluggish for a long time (the last year or so, I'd say), and it's gotten worse recently. Yes, it's an older computer but I think the performance is disproportionately slow, particularly given how simple her computing needs tend to be. Here are the specs:
13" MBP model 5,1
2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM
250 GB HDD (about 60% full)
OSX 10.8.4
And the programs she runs most of the time:
Firefox
MS Office 2011
Calendar
iPhoto
Preview
She has some more intenstive programs (such as Adobe CS6) but doesn't use them on a daily basis. Typically she'll have only a few applications open at a time, sometimes several browser tabs, though. The computer often hangs up with simple tasks such as opening a new tab in Firefox (regardless of how many tabs are already open) or even just opening a new Finder window. Opening most files and programs takes a while, really. She'll get the spinning wheel of death and have to wait several seconds for the task complete, or in some cases force quit one or more applications in order to get unfrozen. The situation is a little better after a fresh reboot, but not much. I've tried some standard maintenance--repaired permissions and verified the disk, defragged the HD once, all with negligible effect.
Can anyone recommend additional troubleshooting steps? Thanks.

Each successive major release of OS X has weighed your machine down with more resource demands. On top of that, you likely have a very fragmented file directory. Heed the really good advice about increasing your RAM.
The more fragmented that file directory becomes, the longer it takes the operating system to locate files on your hard drive. I would recommend using Disk Utility to verify/repair your permissions, and also verify your hard drive is healthy. This alone will not fix your file directory.
Follow these instructions for booting your machine into Safe Boot Mode, and why this is beneficial. I do this about once a month as routine maintenance. Beforehand, I move the contents of my local Library/Caches to the Trash. Once I have booted up in Safe Boot Mode, I empty the Trash, and then reboot normally. You will likely notice an improvement, but not one that overrides the RAM upgrade recommendations.

How come geekbench shows 13% more performance for mbp

Hello
So i compared geekbench results for both mbp retina 13 with 2.9ghz processor and the mba 13 with 2.0 ghz processor
And on average the mbp scored 13% more.
So my question is , how come while its processor is 45% faster, the mbp scored only 13% more in geekbench?
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A couple of points I can think of:
1) Vmware or other emulations can run apps at native speed on the intel based macs, so I concur that there shouldn't be any lag using Windows app through Vmware
2) Powerpoint and other Office apps, to my knowledge, need Rosetta to work on Leopard. This has been shown in various benchmark tests to start up and function much slower than the PowerPC based macs. As you may already know, Rosetta works in the background and you are not aware of it working. It is done automatically when opening the apps in Leopard
3) As for Powerpoint files being saved as Keynote and the resultant keynote being dreadfully slow. Try this: Open Keynote and make a quick presentation with lots of processor intensive builds/actions and see if you notice the lag. If you do, then the problem lies with your computer and you should have a Mac Genius look at it. If you do NOT notice any performance issues with it, then you should look at the particular keynote file (the one that was exported from Powerpoint). Right click the file and make sure "open with Rosetta" is NOT checked off. Uncheck it and open the file again and you should see performance improvement
Good luck
RezF

Yosemite performance on MBP 13" Late 2011 4GB RAM ?

Hello everyone,
I have a Mac Book Pro 13" Late 2011 with Mavericks and 4gb of RAM. I was wondering if anyone had the same system specs and had upgraded to Yosemite in order to know how it was running on their system ? Is it smooth ? The official requirements state 2gb of RAM but I'm really skeptical towards this.
Thanks for your input. Cheers !

I have the early 2011 MBP, 8 GB RAM, and I put a SSD in it (Samsung). I do some processor and memory intensive things, like audio recording and video editing, and I was not pleased with the performance in Mavericks until I put the SSD in.
I think it will depend on what you are doing with your Mac. 4 GB of RAM is probably enough to check your email with, but not if you are doing more creative work. Unless you like to see the pretty spinning beachball.
Regarding Adi's somewhat ranty note above, the usual cause for poorly performing Macs with OS X is crapware, like CleanMyMac, MacKeeper, or third-party anti-virus software, and having 57 startup processes active along with Parallels or VMWare, and expecting it all to run with 4 gigs of RAM.
Back to smashr: you can test drive Yosemite. If you make a Time Machine backup of your Mavericks installation, then you can easily go back to it if you don't like Yosemite. Alternatively, you can make a test partition on your HD and put Yosemite there.

Speed Stepping Issue - bad performance on MBP 2.4

Hi,
My MBP 2.4 with 4 GB of Ram running 10.4.11 never really ran as fast as it should. My macbook 2.0 continuously performed better when running audio apps such as Logic 7 & 8 as well as Ableton Live. I was having many audio drop outs and error messages, while watching the CPU meter in both programs continually go through the roof. Checking Activity monitor showed no abnormal signs. My local Apple store has said there is nothing wrong with my computer.It seems crazy, when even my 4 year old G5 performs better and achieves more tracks.
Then I found this thread (http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=610592#610592) at the Ableton Live forum and used Coolbook to monitor my Speed Stepping and sure enough I found my problem. When the CPU is under a lot of stress from programs it doesn't step-up in speed. I'm noticing my CPU jumping between 1200mHz - 1800mHz but very rarely reaching it's potential of 2400mHz. So I registered Coolbook and have set a few steps and sure enough it's working very well. I'm getting the performance I've always hoped for. Running the Live 7 performance test, it's scoring on par with Windows laptops with the same chip and a significantly better score than running it without Coolbook.
Running XP under Bootcamp works very well with Ableton Live showing simlar results to OSX with Coolbook suggesting this speed stepping problem is OSX.
There are many people with this problem on many audio forums ... I don't want to resort to a 3rd party app to get the performance my machine should give me out of the box. Is there anybody out there with the Santa Rosa chip that isn't seeing this problem?

I too am having major issues with my 2.2Ghz Macbook pro.. as is my friend who has the exact same set up as I do.
Ableton hits 50% CPU load then goes crazy and starts stuttering and popping when it hits a heavy CPU load spike for a fraction of a second, obviously caused by the speed stepping problem. It's not helping. The fact that running the same software in bootcamp under windows removes this isssue, is very poor form.
PLEASE Apple, can you work with the guys at Ableton to sort this issue out. Can you PLEASE release a patch for Macbook Pro Santa Rosa owners so that we can disable the speed stepping while specific applications are open, or completely.
We know for a fact that the CPU cycles down to around 800Mhz with speed stepping.... and then it has to ramp back up to 2200Mhz for heavy CPU load times... unfortunately it's just not doing it quickly enough.. and causing Ableton to splutter and stutter and cough it's way through our tracks that we are producing!
PLEASE HELP! I know you can!
Scott

Poor Wifi Performance On MBP

Hi guys,
I have a year old 2.26 GHz MBP and never had any complaints. However over the past few weeks I have noticed that the wi-fi performance has become really bad. Even if I step out with my MBP a few feet away, either the speed gets dropped considerably or I get a connection time out and I can't connect. I have a 4 old white Macbook and it works fine in the same setup and distance. I have also got my router replaced twice thinking it was initially a problem with the connection. But now I think there is an issue with my MBP. I have already formatted my drive, done a clean install, fixed permission, rest pram etc. As I said its a recent issue and I have no clue what to do.
Do you think Apple will replace the Ethernet card?
Thanks

If your MBP is only one year old and has a 2.26G processor, it sounds like you have a 13" MBP. If so, that model is newer with somewhat different hardware from the older MBPs this forum covers. If you have a 13", consider asking in the forums for the Late 2008 and newer MBPs here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251
It's not your fault--the forum labeling is about as non-intitive as you can make it!
That said, sometimes clearing out the repository of old networks you've used can help with connection issues. Go to System Preferences > Network and click "Airport" in the left pane. Then, in the main pane, click the "Advanced" button in the lower right corner. That should open a new window with the "Airport" tab selected. In the middle is a list of all networks you've joined. Delete all that you do not use on a weekly basis.
This often helps with connection issues, particularly those that gradually appear like is seems yours have.

Horrible Performance in quries

Hello guys.
This is Calvin from Korea.
We are implementing BI 7.0 with ERP 6.0 and facing a some problem regarding BI performance. I checked the parameters for both SAP and DBMS, which is oracle as well as cache. And everything seemed to be fine.
Anyway, there are two problems,
The first one is...
When we choose the variable, program CL_RSR_VAR===... executed quite a long time.
and the second one is,
during the query execution time, those events takes lots of time.
OLAP Initialization     18,767479
Wait Time, User     11,011501
OLAP: Settings     4,290186
Data Manager     3,814428
I tried to find out some solutions by myself but only to fail.
Your help will be highly appreicated,
Regards,
Calvin

Dear Ravi,
Thanks for your reply.
But I don't understand what you wrote down above. We already have variables in these queries... Could you please kindly explain in detail?
Thanks in advance,
Calvin.

Aperture performance on MBP 17" 2.16GHz Core Duo

Hi everyone,
I've been happily using Aperture for a couple of years and apart from a few niggles I love it.
I'm using a Macbook Pro 17" 2.16GHz (Core Duo) with 2GB RAM (the maximum) and an after-market 320GB 4200rpm internal hard drive. Running OS X 10.5.8 and Aperture 2.1.4. My hard drive is quite full, about 25GB free space. My Aperture library is about 60GB.
However I recently upgraded from a 6MP dslr to a 15Mp dslr and at approximately the same time Aperture performance began to take a nosedive. Now opening an image will sometimes beachball for 10 seconds (at other times they open normally in about 2 seconds). Cloning has become a nightmare of sluggishness, just clicking the retouch tool will beachball for 10 or more seconds and every edit will take a few seconds to appear.
Apart from buying a new Mac, what are my best options to improve performance? Its got so bad I'm starting to think about switching to Lightroom! (I read somewhere that Aperture is limited by the video card RAM, and my card only has 256MB I think. Apparently Lightroom doesn't do this?)
Thanks!
Edit: Don't know if it has any relevance, but I have never used Aperture's Vault feature. I don't even really understand it to be honest . I backup my photos online to Mozy.
Message was edited by: Timothy Houghton

The file sizes on the 15 MP files are 2.5x larger than on the 6 MP camera. So by nature it's going to be slower.
What's causing it? Probably a mix of all 3. That machine is 2.5 years old now; things have gotten faster and with larger RAW file sizes it will be taxed.
You could always see if you could get to an Apple Store and load up a card with a few of your images and see how it goes. Challenge being, new machines are running 10.6 and there have been reports here that Aperture on 10.6 is slower than it is on 10.5 (seems better with 10.6.2 than 10.6.1 but still not sure if it's 100% as fast) so there are a lot of variables going on there.

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