IMac getting slower -and Im getting more frustrated!
Like others it would appear.... I am finding my iMac is getting slower and slower with each day that passes since upgrading to Mavericks. It is slow to open and close apps. Slow to open mail. Often hangs with the little ball spinning forever and I have to hold the start button to shut down. I've even noticed that simple scrolling jumps all over the place as it is slow to respond. iMessage is often up to 4 minutes behind! I noticed that others have used EtreCheck which has been helpful to those 'in the know'. Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated, as I have no diea what's what! Thank you.
Hardware Information:
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)
iMac - model: iMac10,1
1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
ATI Radeon HD 4670 - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 1 day 4:47:57
Disk Information:
ST31000528AS disk0 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (446.25 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS09
USB Information:
Canon MP495 series
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
TOSHIBA USB 3.5"-HDD 1.5 TB
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Time Machine Backup (disk1s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backup: 1.5 TB (7.02 GB free)
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74)
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.2 - SDK 10.6)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.paragon.NTFS.notify.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] jp.co.canon.Inkjet_Extended_Survey_Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[failed] SOS.OnlineBackup.LaunchAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
MyTomTomSA (EMMA)
iTunesHelper
BusyCalAlarm
LivedriveCore
Dropbox
Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector2
Dropbox App ONLY
Internet Plug-ins:
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin1017277: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 3rd-Party support link
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.1.0.24 - SDK 10.8 3rd-Party support link
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 3rd-Party support link
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
EPPEX Plugin: Version: 3.0.5.0 3rd-Party support link
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Outdated! Update
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
MacFUSE 3rd-Party support link
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X 3rd-Party support link
Bad Fonts:
None
Old Applications:
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0
Microsoft Error Reporting: Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Ship Asserts: Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
Solver: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.app
SLLauncher: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app
TomTomHOMERunner: Version: 2.9.2.1693 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/TomTom HOME/TomTomHOMERunner.app
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office
Microsoft Graph: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Database Utility: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Office Reminders: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Upload Center: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
My Day: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
SyncServicesAgent: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Open XML for Excel: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Alerts Daemon: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Database Daemon: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Chart Converter: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Clip Gallery: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
Microsoft PowerPoint: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Excel: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Outlook: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Word: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Document Connection: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Microsoft Language Register: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Additional Tools/Microsoft Language Register/Microsoft Language Register.app
/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Helper
Wondershare Helper Compact: Version: 2.2.6.4 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Aimersoft Helper Compact: Version: 2.2.6.4 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Wondershare Helper Compact: Version: 2.2.6.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Wondershare Helper Compact/Wondershare Helper Compact.app
Microsoft AutoUpdate: Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
Music Healing - Free: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.0 3rd-Party support link
Rename A Better Finder 8: Version: 8.77 - SDK 10.0 3rd-Party support link
Healing Voice | Lite: Version: 1.1 - SDK 10.0 3rd-Party support link
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 930.71 GB Disk used: 515.11 GB
Destinations:
Time Machine Backup [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 1
Total number of backups: 180
Oldest backup: 2011-03-13 08:43:29 +0000
Last backup: 2014-01-22 16:30:29 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 1 < (Disk used 515.11 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
58% PluginProcess
15% com.apple.WebKit.Networking
8% WindowServer
2% Safari
1% EtreCheck
Top Processes by Memory:
156 MB com.apple.MediaLibraryService
156 MB Quicken Essentials
156 MB iTunes
111 MB softwareupdated
106 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
320 MB Free RAM
1.66 GB Active RAM
1.08 GB Inactive RAM
647 MB Wired RAM
2.78 GB Page-ins
255 MB Page-outs
A.
Some of your user files (not system files) have incorrect permissions or are locked. This procedure will unlock all your user files, reset their ownership, and remove their access-control lists. If you've set special values for those attributes, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Back up all data.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR..; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_; chmod -R -N ~ $_; } 2>&-
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
B.
Launch the Font Book application and validate all fonts. You must select the fonts in order to validate them. See the built-in help and this support article for instructions. If Font Book finds any issues, resolve them.
From the application's menu bar, select
File ▹ Restore Standard Fonts...
You'll be prompted to confirm, and then to enter your administrator login password.
Boot in safe mode to rebuild the font caches. Boot again as usual and test.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t boot in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.
Also note that if you deactivate or remove any built-in fonts, for instance by using a third-party font manager, the system may become unstable.
C.
"BlackBerry Desktop Manager" is incompatible with Mavericks and should be removed.
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 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.
Back up all data before making any changes.
You will generally have to reboot in order to complete an uninstallation. Until you do that, the uninstallation may have 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.
WARNING: 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.
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iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac11,3
1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
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BANK 1/DIMM0
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BANK 1/DIMM1
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Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 - VRAM: 512 MB
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System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 6 days 16:10:12
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SAMSUNG HD103SJ disk0 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
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Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (629.98 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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Canon MG4200 series
Primax USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Western Digital My Passport 070A 999.5 GB
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Backup (disk4s2) <not mounted> : 999.16 GB
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.67) Support
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ChmodBPF: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
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[failed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
[failed] com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist
[failed] com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent.xpc.plist
[failed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.awdd.plist
[failed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[failed] com.apple.GSSCred.plist
[failed] com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
[failed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist
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[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
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Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.1.2f1 Support
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Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.4.4.2 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
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My Mac Pro is getting slower and slower
I have an Mac Pro early 2009 version which is getting slower and slower. Startup time is about 3 minutes. How can I fix this?
Thank you.If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console 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 Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
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.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutesafter the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs — they're very long and not helpful. -
Standard BT Exchange speeds just get slower and sl...
St.Athan exchange, Vale of Glamorgan, S.Wales - Over the last year the speeds I am able to get from my broadband connection are just getting slower and slower. A year ago I could just stream video (important since my business deals in this medium). However, now not only can I not stream video, I have trouble doing the most basic of internet business. Not only is my line speed slow (2mbs tops) but it drops out all the time.
I know it is not my service provider at fault or my house lines because all my neighbours are having the same problem and are with differing ISP's.
It must be that the exchange is getting steadily more oversubscribed and can no longer handle the amount of work it is being asked to do.
I think that my only option (and others in the area) is to completely ditch the BT landline and opt for mobile internet. The speeds available on mobile internet using a device like 3's MiFi arent fantastic but they should at least blow my BT connection away.As you have stated that you are a business user, then try the Business forum here http://business.forums.bt.com/
they are more likely to be able to help you, as this forum is for domestic customers of BT Broadband.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones. -
Broadband getting slower and slower
Hi,
For the past few weeks broadband has been getting slower and slower, from about 2.5Mbps down to 0.3Mbps so far.
ADSL line status
Connection Information
Line state
Connected
Connection time
1 days, 04:44:50
Downstream
287 Kbps
Upstream
924 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
7.1 dB / 5.5 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
58.9 dB / 35.0 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
1.5 dBm / 1.4 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)
7780 / 2
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
43 / 1
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
6 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote)
15 /
I have reported the fault a number of times, but have been told 'we cannot find a fault', and line tests report there is no problem.
The quiet line test sounded ok, everything is plugged into the master socket with a filter.
This is the same as a problem i had before, which was fixed after posting on this forum.
Hopefully someone who can help will see this and be able to get it fixed.
ThanksHi Welcome to the forums
Here is a basic guide to getting help from the community members done by CL Keith Please read through the link posted http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/speed/first_steps.html
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
once you have posted the information asked for then the community members can help you more
Thank You
This is a customer to customer self help forum the only BT presence here are the forum moderators
If you want to say thanks for a helpful answer,please click on the Ratings star on the left-hand side If the reply answers your question then please mark as ’Mark as Accepted Solution’ -
Prepared Statemet executeQuery() getting slower and slower
Hi,
I have a servlet that do the following:
1.- Construct the where clause for a query with the data the user has sent.
2.- Get a connection from the pool.
3.- Load a temporary table with a select that uses the where clause created on the first step.
4.- Create a prepared statement as simple as "select * from temp_table where rownum < 500"
5.- While there is still data on the temporary table, loop
5.1.- Extract the information of the result set the Prepared Statemet executeQuery() returns.
5.2.- Delete the rows of the temporary table that had been read on the 5.1 step
5.3.- Check if there is more data
6.- Close the result set, statements, ...
The first runs of the loop are very fast, on the order of 500 ms. When the servlet has executed some times the loop, each run of the loop starts getting slower and slower, growing the time of the loop with each run.
Do anyone knows why the loop takes longer and longer with each run?
Regards,
CptnAgua... initialization of the servlet and reading the parameters
// The connection object is created and get a connection
// from the application servlet pool
ConexionBaseDatos bbdd;
bbdd = new ConexionBaseDatos();
try {
bbdd.conecta();
} catch (Exception e) {
... exception code
String sql;
String where = " where 1=1";
the where clause is created depending on the parameters received by the sevlet
String insert;
// here all the variables are created and most of them initialized
insert = "insert into temp_table select * from conciliation_v x " + where;
Statement stmt = null;
PreparedStatement prepStmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
SimpleDateFormat formatoFecha = null;
Date hoy = null;
FileWriter fstream = null;
BufferedWriter file = null;
String rowid_update = "";
String rowid_select = "";
formatoFecha = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
hoy = new Date();
nombreFichero = "";
// the floder where the servlet is going to store the output is read
// from the server.xml
nombreFichero =
this.getInitParameter("DirectorioEscritura") + nombreFichero;
File fichero = new File(nombreFichero);
// if the file already exists, the servlet stops.
if (fichero.exists()) {
out.println("El fichero especificado ya existe.");
... exception code
LogManager.shutdown();
return;
sql = "select * from temp_table where rownum < 500";
fstream = new FileWriter(nombreFichero);
file = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
try {
// here the temp table is filled with the update string already defined
stmt = bbdd.getStmt();
stmt.executeUpdate(insert);
// and the query is preparsed
prepStmt = bbdd.getPrepStmt(sql);
prepStmt.setFetchSize(500);
} catch (SQLException e) {
... exception code
String linea;
String field1 = "";
String field2 = "";
String field3 = "";
String field4 = "";
String field5 = "";
String field6 = "";
String field7 = "";
String field8 = "";
String field9 = "";
String field10 = "";
String field11 = "";
String field12 = "";
String field13 = "";
boolean hayValores = true;
// the loop starts
while (hayValores) {
hayValores = false;
try {
// The preparsed statement is executed
rs = prepStmt.executeQuery();
} catch (SQLException e) {
... exception code
try {
while (rs.next()) {
hayValores = true;
try {
field1 =
lPad(rs.getString("field1"), 10); //50
field2 =
lPad(rs.getString("field2"), 18); //18
field3 =
lPad(rs.getString("field3"), 10); //0
field4 =
lPad(rs.getString("field4"), 50); //50
field5 =
lPad(rs.getString("field5"),
20); //10 + number
field6 =
lPad(rs.getString("field6"), 16); //number
field7 =
lPad(rs.getString("field7"),
10); // 10
field8 =
lPad(rs.getString("field8"), 10); //10
field9 = lPad(rs.getString("field9"), 1); //1
field10 = lPad(rs.getString("field10"), 10); // 0
field11 = lPad(rs.getString("field11"), 10); // 0
field12 = lPad(rs.getString("field12"), 10); // 0
field13 = lPad(rs.getString("field13"), 10); // 0
rowid_update =
rowid_update + "rowid = '" + rs.getString("a_rowid") +
"' OR ";
rowid_select =
rowid_select + "'" + rs.getString("a_rowid") +
} catch (Exception exp) {
... exception code
linea =
field1 + field2 + field3 + field4 +
field5 + field6 +
field7 + field8 +
field9 + field10 + field11 + field12 + field13 +
"\r\n";
file.write(linea);
} catch (Exception e) {
... exception code
file.flush();
if (hayValores) {
String delete;
delete =
"delete from temp_table where a_rowid in (" +
rowid_select.substring(0, rowid_select.length() - 2) +
rowid_select = "";
try {
stmt.executeUpdate(delete);
} catch (Exception exp) {
... exception code
file.close();
try {
rs.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
... exception code
try {
prepStmt.close();
} catch (Exception e3) {
... exception code
Do the already extracted lines must be flagged as extracted?
if (tipoExtraccion.toUpperCase().equals("AUTO") ||
marca.toUpperCase().equals("S")) {
if (!(rowid_update.equals(""))) {
rowid_update =
rowid_update.substring(0, rowid_update.length() - 3);
String update =
"UPDATE sys_conciliation.conciliation " + "SET FECHA_INTEGRADO = SYSDATE " +
"WHERE " + rowid_update;
try {
stmt.executeUpdate(update);
bbdd.commit();
} catch (SQLException e) {
... exception code
try {
bbdd.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
... exception code
try {
stmt.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
... exception code
out.println("OK");
out.close();
LogManager.shutdown();
public String rPad(String campo, int longitud) {
if (campo == null) {
campo = "";
int lcampo = campo.length();
if (lcampo > longitud)
return (campo.substring(0, longitud));
if (lcampo == longitud)
return (campo);
String nuevoCampo = campo;
for (int a = 0; a < longitud - lcampo; a++) {
nuevoCampo = nuevoCampo + " ";
return (nuevoCampo);
public String lPad(String campo, int longitud) {
if (campo == null) {
campo = "";
int lcampo = campo.length();
if (lcampo > longitud)
return (campo.substring(0, longitud));
if (lcampo == longitud)
return (campo);
String nuevoCampo = campo;
for (int a = 0; a < longitud - lcampo; a++) {
nuevoCampo = " " + nuevoCampo;
return (nuevoCampo);
}Message was edited by:
CptnAgua -
WiFi Connection Gets Slower and Slower
I have a TG862G/CT Arris (Comcast) router. The WiFi connection worked great for more than 6 months. I use Chrome browser with Windows 7.
Recently (last 3+ weeks) something changed. (I haven't move or blocked the router; still connecting with exact same computers.) When I first connect I have very fast connection (response), but after 5 to 10 minutes the response gets slower and slower and finally pages don't load. I get "waiting" messages in the lower left hand side of the screen. The browser tab finally shows the name of the web site, but the screen remains blank.
I would appreciate any help with how to trouble shoot this problem so it can be resolved.
Thanks and best regards.Hi Cam
Are you using a 3rd party router or an Apple Airport Unit? If the latter, make sure you are using the latest Airport Firmware. If not sure, open Airport Utility in your Applications>Utilities folder. Latest version is 7.4.2. If not, update the firmware via the Base Station Menu (you need to first click on your Airport Unit in the Utilities panel). Otherwise, a soft (unplug/wait/plugin) or hard reset of your Airport Unit might help.
If a 3rd party router, make sure the firmware is up-to-date. If it is, then a reset of the unit may help.
Also, the Airport card in the machine, or the router unit may be failing. Former case, run the Apple Hardware Test - note this Apple document is for mid 2007 machines and later.
As an aside, when creating a thread with a question, best to leave the "question box" in your original post panel checked. Otherwise, it may not be apparent you need assistance.
Message was edited by: Hawaiian_Starman -
Alan getting slower and slower
I have a brand new iMac with a 10 year old Airport Utility 6.3.2 installed in order to use WLAN. I noticed recently that response on my iPhone and iPad are getting slower and slower. Is it possible that the old Airport Utility lady is slowly giving up? In other words, should I invest in a new Airport hardware?
Grateful for advice.Hi Neolithic,
If you can fill out the contact us form in the "about me" section of my profile, we can look into this for you.
Cheers,
Chris
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Wlan getting slower and slower
Correction
I have a brand new iMac with a 10 year old Airport Utility 6.3.2 installed in order to use WLAN. I noticed recently that response on my iPhone and iPad are getting slower and slower. Is it possible that the old Airport Utility lady is slowly giving up? In other words, should I invest in a new Airport hardware?
Grateful for advice.A ten-year old AirPort Extreme would put it around a 2004 model. That would be an 802.11g AirPort Extreme.
That would be model: A1034 or Order# M8799LL/A. Is this what you have? If so, then I would strongly encourage that you upgrade to the latest model to take advantage of much better performance for both wired and wireless clients.
The following is what it would look like: -
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