I've tried everything... My Macbook runs too slow w/ Photoshop CS3 open!!

I am a graphic designer. I work with multiple files at once, and these files are always high resolution and sometimes up to 24x24 inches in print size. I use version CS3. I feel as if when Photoshop is open, everything else hangs. The spinning wheel is always making an appearance. Programs often hang so much that they will no respond, including Photoshop, even when doing the simplest tasks.
I have plenty of hard drive space. I have 2GB of RAM. I have messed with the cache levels and amount of memory that Photoshop takes up. I have used iDefrag and several programs to free up space such as Monolingual and this other program, I can't remember the name, but it helps you to delete browser files like your history, cache, etc. I've deleted unused fonts, I've done so many things. Nothing seems to help.
When idle, Photoshop uses around 1.14 GB of real memory/1.95 GB of virtual memory. Is this common?
Firefox is using 83.55 MB of real memory/866.92 MB of virtual memory. I also always have Mail open (25 MB/460 MB) and some other programs like instant messaging programs and Text Edit. My Activity Monitor says I am using 1.98 GB of System Memory... wait a minute, that's almost all of my memory!!
I feel like I've been freeing up disk space but that is hardly my issue. My issue seems to be processor performance, or RAM. I think my issue is probably Photoshop, and not anything to do with my Mac.
Any advice, anyway?! Please help. Thanks!!

I live in photoshop...on a dual G5 2.5 desktop with a dedicated 4x raptor raid as the scratch/save disk. I bought a 2.6 17" macbook pro maxed at 4gb ram...for travel.... and that is where I am as I write this... I tuned in to see how best to optimize my traveling system. I upgraded to CS3 immediately before departure, mostly because of the intel processors in the macbook. I have a fw800 500gp 7200 rpm maxtor as scratch/save disk. I could increase the speed of my external by switching to a lower capacity 150gb raptor, but the speed doesn't increase enough to make it worth it without raid. I could carry a dual hd scratch and raid them across fw or a eSata espress card...but I am so spoiled by my desktop raid at 300gb/sec, that it may not be significant a significant difference on a mobil settup. I am typically running up against the 2gb save limit because of 50ish layered files in high rez....so I feel your pain Justin. I've been comparing speeds for various photoshop operations on my current project file in both cs2 and cs3. There is a significant jump in speed for processor intensive things (like file rotation), though mostly it appears to be a 30% speed boost for the native ps version in cs3.
Justin... off the top of my head....I'd recommend processor speed first...then max your ram (4gb is better than the 3gb models because more and because matched pairs is more efficient, then go for an internal 7200 rpm drive in your macbook pro (if you don't already have one). No matter what, a fast 7200, or 10k external fw800 or eSata scratch/save drive. My experience is that if the external scratch drive fails for any reason, photoshop hangs and you lose it all since the last save. No way out.
I was hoping to find optimization specs for macbook users on the forum, or a link to an adobe document. Anyone know where that might be?
Thanks for any help
Dave

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Start up in safe mode and uninstall or update Hamachi.
Any third-party software that doesn't install by drag-and-drop into the Applications folder, and uninstall by drag-and-drop to the Trash, is a system modification.
Whenever you remove system modifications, they must be removed completely, and the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job.
I never install system modifications myself, and except as stated in this comment, I don't know how to uninstall them. You'll have to do your own research to find that information.
Here are some general guidelines to get you started. Suppose you want to remove something called “BrickMyMac” (a hypothetical example.) First, consult the product's Help menu, if there is one, for instructions. Finding none there, look on the developer's website, say www.brickmymac.com. (That may not be the actual name of the site; if necessary, search the Web for the product name.) If you don’t find anything on the website or in your search, contact the developer. While you're waiting for a response, download BrickMyMac.dmg and open it. There may be an application in there such as “Uninstall BrickMyMac.” If not, open “BrickMyMac.pkg” and look for an Uninstall button. The uninstaller might also be accessed by clicking the Customize button, if there is one.
Back up all data before making any changes.
You will generally have to restart the computer in order to complete an uninstallation. Until you do that, there may be no effect, or unpredictable effects.
If you can’t remove software in any other way, you’ll have to erase and install OS X. Never install any third-party software unless you're sure you know how to uninstall it; otherwise you may create problems that are very hard to solve.
Trying to remove complex system modifications by hunting for files by name often will not work and may make the problem worse. The same goes for "utilities" such as "AppCleaner" and the like that purport to remove software.

Java web start application runs too slow...

Hello,
I am new to Java Web Start. I have created a java web start application and when i enable web start from local Execution, then it works perfectly well. But when i upload it on server and then download the application, then it is too too slow...i mean it takes minutes to get the output on clicking some button....my jnlp file is as under:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<jnlp codebase="http://(web server code base)" href="launch.jnlp" spec="1.0+">
<information>
<title>ERD</title>
<vendor>Deepika Gohil</vendor>
<homepage href="http://appframework.dev.java.net"/>
<description>A simple java desktop application based on Swing Application Framework</description>
<description kind="short">ER Deign Tools</description>
</information>
<update check="always"/>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.5+"/>
<jar href="ERD_1_2.jar" main="true"/>
<jar href="lib/appframework-1.0.3.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/swing-worker-1.1.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-impl.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-xjc.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb1-impl.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/activation.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jsr173_api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-impl.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-xjc.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/FastInfoset.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/gmbal-api-only.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/http.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxws-rt.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxws-tools.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/management-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/mimepull.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/policy.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/saaj-impl.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/stax-ex.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/streambuffer.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/woodstox.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxws-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jsr181-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jsr250-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/saaj-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/activation.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jaxb-api.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/jsr173_api.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="erd.screen1">
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
I dont understand the reason. Could you please help me out.
Thank you,
Deepika Gohil.

Check your web server's access logs to see how many requests web start is sending for each jar. After you've loaded the application the first time, for each subsequent launch, if you've got everything configured right, you should only see requests for the JNLP file and maybe some gifs because web start should load everything else out of the cache (if you're using the version-based download protocol). Or if you're using the basic download protocol, then you might see requests for each jar file, but even in this case, if your web server is prepared to evaluate the last-updated attribute for each jar request and for jars that have not changed, respond with no actual payload and a header value of Not-Modified, then that should run almost as fast.
You might also want to consider changing the "check" attribute of the "update" element from "always" to "background" for a couple of reasons. It should allow your app to start sooner (but this means that you might have to launch once or twice after an update is applied to the web server before the update shows up on the workstation). Also, my impression is that "always" is broken and prevents web start from ever checking to see if your jnlp file has been updated if you launch your app from a web start shortcut - launching from a browser is less likely to have this problem, depending on how often your browser is configured to check for updated resources.

Why does my macbook run so slow?? I am running OSX 10.8.4

I am running OSX 10.8.4
My Macbook pro is running extremely slow.
It takes a while to power down.
web pages do not pop up automatically like in the beginning.
What can i do to get my laptop back to fresh out the box performance???
This is getting irritating, since i need this laptop for school.

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

When I turn on iCloud in iPhoto everything starts to run super slow.

This has been happening for a while but since I have a MacBook Pro that I don't have this problem on, as well as my iMac which i do have this problem on, I haven't worried about it but now i'm getting annoyed. When I open iphoto, without photostream on, everything is fine. As soon as I click on photostream or icloud everything in iphoto starts running super slow. If I click on a photo it takes about 10 seconds for it to highlight, scrolling is about 10 seconds behind as well. If i close iphoto with icloud on, it will not open back up. I get a error report. If I turn off icloud/photostream then everything is fine. I can scroll through my pictures with no problem at all. I have about 400 pictures on my mac. Anybody else have this problem? Anybody have a fix?
This has been happening for over 6 months, before Mavericks and before my current version of iphoto.
Here are my specs:
iphoto v 9.5.1
iMac 21.5, mid 2011
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
I have 270 GB of free space.
Thanks in advance.

What generation is your iPod? My sister's 2g/3g(I'm not sure which) was doing something similar, but it would put a different graphic on the screen every time. We took it in to the apple store and they didn't determine what it was. One thing they said to try was to restore it and gradually add content on to see if it's an app or something loaded on it. If that doesn't work then they said it's probably something in the software or firmware. They gave her the option of getting one exactly like the one she had or getting the new one like I have. She ended up getting the new one on sale at target.

WSA running too slow

Hello citizens! I've been having lot of trouble with an WSA. It runs too slowly. Some times a web page is displayed 5 or 6 minutes after I requested it. Has anyone found this kind of trouble? If so I would really appreciate some advice:
[email protected]
Regards.
Bernardo

Bernardo,
There is something definitely wrong if it's taking 5 - 6 minutes to display a page. The best way to analyze this would be to work directly with Iron Port support.
Many things can be a factor in this.
How are you deployed, transparently or explicitly?
Are you doing authentication? If so, have you tried disabling auth?
Are you using internal or external DNS servers?
The WSA should be as fast as the network / DNS / authentication servers. Unless it is being over encumbered.
How many connections do you have running through it at once? You can check with the CLI command "rate".

I've tried everything... My Macbook runs too slow w/ Photoshop CS3 open!!

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