ITunes 10.1 (64-bit) slow performance

Hello all,
I have recently bought a new pc, a very fast machine (see details below), but I'm experiencing bad performance with iTunes 10.1 (64-bit) for windows.
I don't have a lot of stuff in iTunes, I have about 120 apps, 500 songs, 1200 photos, couple of ringtones and 0 videos in my library. The whole iTunes interface responds slowly. Like clicking on Music, Videos, my iPhone in the side menu makes iTunes freeze for a couple of seconds and then switches to the screen. Even after loading a screen iTunes is freezed for a seconds before it's responsive.
I've googled around for a while, and got some tips to disable some options in the preference window, so I've set all unnecessary things off, like: crossfadings songs, automatic update checking, looking for devices, automatic organizing, ping, genius, shared libraries, etc. but it doesn't speed up iTunes much.
It gets even worse whenever I connect my iPhone 3G (Fw 4.2.1, 16GB, Black). iTunes simply freezes for like half a minute and the pc makes a few beeping noises because of connecting an usb-device. Even Windows 7 slows down a lot while connecting. iTunes gets responsive once my iPhone appears under devices in the side menu.
Software I have constantly running in the backround are: AVG anti-virus free edition, SQL Server 2008, Steam and Skype. Turning off these softwares doesn't make a difference as well. There are no virusses or whatever on my pc. I let AVG anti-virus do a complete scan like once a week.
Taskmanager shows iTunes using about 240,000K of memory, followed by steam with 70,000k of memory and skype with 30,000k of memory.
Anyone else experiencing slow performance or know how to resolve this ?
System details:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel i7 950 @ 3.06GHz quad core processor
6gigs of ddr3 (1600mhz) memory
Ocz vertex2 ssd (The O/S and all music, photos, apps are on this disk)
nvidia graphics card gtx460
Message was edited by: Leon49

Same with me! I recently bought a new laptop, and iTunes 9 was working just fine. It takes like 5 seconds to scroll down one line. Clicking on different tabs and things takes forever as well. I am not sure what is causing it yet, but like you, I have disabled all sorts of iTunes settings which has not helped yet. Hopefully Apple will fix this problem soon! Let me know if you find a way to solve this.
My PC Specs which are well above the minimum requirements:
Asus UL80Jt
Windows 7 64-Bit
Intel i3 330UM Dual Core Processor @ 1.2GHz (ASUS Overclocking to 1.7 GHz)
4GB RAM
1.3 GB Dedicated Video RAM
128 SSD

Similar Messages

  • How to fix iTunes extremely laggy/slow performance?

    Hi, does anybody know of a way to fix iTunes' extremely slow performance?
    Just about every action in iTunes takes ages to perform. Below are two YouTube movies demonstrating the problem.
    Examples:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGSQZ50GPa0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDFHRejnA4A
    Thanks in advance,
    Jasper.
    ps. iTunes used is the newest iTunes 8.0.1.11

    Definitely NOT a Windows only problem! It happens on my PowerBook G4 (I've even added more memory with no improvement - it's beginning to drive me mad!) It's specifically an iTunes 8 problem (iTunes 7 was absolutely fine for me - no problems at all). Unfortunately I can't reinstall iTunes 7 because I updated my iPhone firmware which then locked me into using iTunes 8...so essentially Apple locks you into using iTunes 8 even though it's crap and slow.

  • Apple TV slow performance with large iTunes library

    We have a rather large (movies + music) iTunes library and the appleTV is performing very poorly... Are there any suggestions how to improve wake-up time, menu response time or performance overall? Will it help to put our music on a separate HDD and turn that off when we want to use the appleTV? Anything else?

    Sorry to butt-in, we have a 2.6TB iTunes library. Music and Photos are kept on the AppleTV all else is streamed. We use a Lacie 4Big Quadra attached to a iMac G5 streamed via Airport Extreme.
    The only delays we get are for the Lacie coming out of sleep mode (takes about 45 seconds), which sometimes results in an on-screen message of File Format not compatible (which just means "not found"). Retrying the selection starts the streaming. I expect the iTunes library streams the Movie/TV programme to the AppleTV which buffers it for delivery. This could be the delay you're experiencing, maybe 15-20 seconds before it starts to play - is this what you mean?
    As our library has grown we've noticed no significant performance drop-off.
    Possibly it's a network issue, have you run the network diagnostics on Apple TV ?
    Roger

  • Slow performance on a iMac 27" (maybe originated by the HDD)

    Hello,
    Well, I've had my iMac for 10 months now, but have never really paid attention to its performance since it was my first Mac and I was upgrading from a quite old computer, so it obviously proved to be a far superior machine.
    However, I noticed the problem when I started to be more critical with my machine's performance (this triggered by the fact that I bought, some months after, a MacBook Air which flies beyond time and space). Curious about this, I requested a friend to do a benchmark test with Xbench resulting in his machine (another iMac 27” with comparable specs) clearly outperforming mine. Even the Air, with its slower processor and smaller RAM, has a relatively close performance.
    Additionally, I have started to notice how the computer takes a long time to start-up and, after the desktop is “layed out”, it takes a lot of time before the machine becomes “responsive” (I usually try to start Mail and Google Chrome as soon as the pointer pops in!) with the final result that I have to wait in company of the beach ball for quite some seconds (half a minute) and even after the application had started, I can still hear the HDD working it as if there would be no tomorrow! And then, it is slooooow. Funnily enough, “tougher” applications like Photoshop or Illustrator don’t seem to have as many problems, relatively speaking.
    A little bit on the background info: I have two partitions: one for Bootcamp (since I was migrating from Windows, I had some software that I wanted to use there: Matlab and Office, basically, and then some smaller Windows-only programs).
    Derived from the benchmark test, I think I might have isolated the problem to the HDD (not sure though!).
    SO THE QUESTIONS ARE:
    1. How can I verify that the slow performance is due to the HDD being defective/badly configured/etc.?
    2. Has the Windows Bootcamp Partition any effect on my machine’s performance under MacOS? (I would assume not, but you never know!). I have more than 1.3 TB free space left
    3. What kind of corrective measures should I take?
    4. Any other type of advice will be warmly welcome: I will try to do some PRAM and SMC resets but I am not counting on it. I had also ran the disk utilities and there were no permission errors (not so sure what this means, but I’ve read that it is supposed to be good news.)
    5. Any extra info you might need, lemme know!
    Greetz,
    Víctor.
    PS: Sorry for the loooong post. I tried to be thorough!

    1. How can I verify that the slow performance is due to the HDD being defective/badly configured/etc.?
    Run Apple Hardware Test: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
    2. Has the Windows Bootcamp Partition any effect on my machine’s performance under MacOS? (I would assume not, but you never know!). I have more than 1.3 TB free space left
    Probably not but 1.3TB of free space left on the total HD is not enough for OS X, OS X needs a minimum of 10-15% free space! If you mean 1.3TB of Windows space I'd recommend posting that question in the Boot Camp forum.
    3. What kind of corrective measures should I take?
    If the drive is failing per the AHT then it's covered by warranty and will need to be replaced. Remember back up!!!!!!!!!!
    4. Any other type of advice will be warmly welcome: I will try to do some PRAM and SMC resets but I am not counting on it. I had also ran the disk utilities and there were no permission errors (not so sure what this means, but I’ve read that it is supposed to be good news.)
    Can't hurt, make sure you read the instructions carefully and execute the tests exactly as they are described for Intel based iMacs.
    5. Any extra info you might need, lemme know!
    If you no longer have a need for Windows on your iMac I'd recommend removing that partition using Boot Camp Assistant. That may correct your problems.
    I would also recommend checking if System Preferences - Startup Disk and see if your internal HD is highlighted as the Startup Disk.
    In addition I would recommend checking your Login Items (System Preferences - Accounts - Login Items) and delete any applications you don't need launching at Login.

  • Slow performance-CS4, why?

    Hi,
    I have a Q9450 proccessor, Vista 64 bit with 4GB ram. ever since I installed CS4, things are going a bit slow in PPRO, and I don't understand why?
    For example, scrubbing or playback in the timeline have become painfully slow, and sometimes, I see leftovers of the marker, as if I don't have enough memory (it's hard to explain in writing... I hope
    you got it). Overall, all the symptoms shows I don't have enough memory, because of the slow performance, but it doesn't make sense, cause I have 4 GB, and in CS3 it all worked great.
    Any suggetsions?

    worked just great...
    I don't get it.
    I googled a bit and found this thread:
    http://dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=149929&page=4
    read what Dave Helmly at Adobe had to say (below):
    YES we use all Cores for playback , effects, and rendering for both Mac and Windows.
    I highly recommend switching to Vista 64 if you are a Windows user (Mac guys are OK with 10.5.4 or higher) Vista 64 will allow Production Premium CS4 to run using more than 4GB of Ram (XP/Vista32 Limitation). As with most NLEs, there are several programs running at the same time to give you the NLE experience. CS4 now allows each process to take up to 4Gb of RAM. If you have 16GB of RAM, then 4 processes can take up to 4GB each. This is a HUGE advantage over CS3. What are some examples of processes? DynamicLink, AfterServer, Photoshop Server, Adobe Media Encoder, Titler, Playback, Capture, Importer, and many more. I tell most people to count on buying 8GB minium.
    So maybe I have to add more ram, in order CS4 to run properly...
    Roy

  • Slow Performance, Windows with My Documents Redirection, path temp

    I've been annoyed by the SLOW performace on Itunes for Windows ever since i purchased my iPhone, i think i know one reason for my slow performance now.
    My Windowx-box is member of a domain (connected to a Windows Small Business server) and for security we use folder-redirection on "My Documents" folder (i.e instead of "C:\%username%\my documents\" we use \\server\%username%\my documents) this is a quite common setup on any businesscomputer using windows.
    Itunes on windows defaults to storing its cache and library in My Documents and in my case its on \\server\ , this hurts performance tremendously since im on a wireless 54g connection.
    I'd like to be able to configure where I want the library stored AND wich HD to put temp-files/cache on...
    If this is something that takes ages to fix I welcome any reghacks or directions or wich file to hex-edit to make a workaround.

    Copy the iTunes folder on the server to you local hard drive.
    Hold Shift and launch iTunes.
    Select *Choose library*.
    Select the *iTunes library.itl* file in the iTunes folder on your local drive.

  • Slow performance with 2 new full T1 installed .

    We've just added second Full T1 line to
    this router to dedicate full T1 bandwidth our two database servers.We are still experiencing the slow performance to our remote location such as file copying and acceessing applications.below are configs and sh run.Any help and inputs are greatly appreciated.Is the router configuration correct? or need to be modified.Thanks
    Danny.
    router2621xm#sh run
    Building configuration...
    Current configuration : 1924 bytes
    version 12.3
    service timestamps debug datetime msec
    service timestamps log datetime msec
    service password-encryption
    service udp-small-servers
    service tcp-small-servers
    hostname OPS
    boot-start-marker
    boot-end-marker
    enable secret xxxx
    enable password xxxx
    no network-clock-participate slot 1
    no network-clock-participate wic 0
    no aaa new-model
    ip subnet-zero
    ip cef
    no ftp-server write-enable
    class-map match-any VOIP
    match ip dscp ef
    policy-map VOIP-QOS
    class VOIP
    priority 1158
    class class-default
    fair-queue
    random-detect dscp-based
    interface FastEthernet0/0
    ip address 192.168.157.1 255.255.255.0 secondary
    ip address 192.168.7.1 255.255.255.0
    ip policy route-map policyroute speed auto
    full-duplex
    no mop enabled
    interface Serial0/0
    ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0
    service-policy output VOIP-QOS
    no ip mroute-cache
    interface Serial0/1
    ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0
    service-policy output VOIP-QOS
    no ip mroute-cache
    router eigrp 15
    network 192.168.1.0
    network 192.168.2.0
    network 192.168.3.0
    network 192.168.4.0
    network 192.168.5.0
    network 192.168.6.0
    network 192.168.7.0
    network 192.168.8.0
    network 192.168.151.0
    network 192.168.152.0
    network 192.168.153.0
    network 192.168.154.0
    network 192.168.155.0
    network 192.168.156.0
    network 192.168.157.0
    network 192.168.158.0
    network 192.168.201.0
    no auto-summary
    ip classless
    ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.5
    no ip http server
    access-list 150 permit ip host 192.168.7.5 any
    access-list 150 permit ip host 192.168.7.6 any
    access-list 151 permit ip any any
    dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
    route-map policyroute permit 10
    match ip address 150
    set interface Serial0/1
    route-map policyroute permit 20
    match ip address 151
    set interface Serial0/0
    line con 0
    line aux 0
    line vty 0 4
    password xxxx
    login
    end

    A couple of items worth noting are the QOS policies themselves.
    This is OK
    class-map match-any VOIP
    match ip dscp ef
    Add this
    class-map match-any VOIP-signalling
    match dscp af31
    match dscp cs3
    Change the policy-map to reflect the changes
    policy-map VOIP-QOS
    class VOIP-signalling
    bandwidth 16
    class VOIP
    priority 24
    class class-default
    fair-queue 256
    random-detect dscp-based
    The bandwidth is meant for 4 concurrent phone conversations so adjust up as needed. The priority is based on my own testing so take it as you may.
    The most important statement is "fair-queue 256", by default you only get 16 queues. Allowing for 256 queues only uses a modest amount of memory so its a simple low impact choice for the router and allows more conversations between devices without interruption.
    Upping the number of queues in your policy would be the best and most important item for your performance problem, next of couse to coercing EIGRP to load balance the T1s properly.
    Brian
    P.S. Create a loopback interface for the ip unnumbered use, cause if the Fa0/0 goes down everything goes down and you can't telnet in from anywhere to look at it. Eliminate the following items from the config by using "no" in fromt of them, a bit of research will tell you why, and start you toward eliminating a few other items.
    service udp-small-servers
    service tcp-small-servers

  • Extremely slow performance with Radeon HD 7870

    Hi,
    I am using a number of Adobe programs on my new Windows 8 64 bit system, with 16 gigs of ram, an Intel Core i5 2.67ghz, and AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 gig. All the programs (including After Effects and Illustrator) work very well with the exception of Photoshop CS6 64 bit, which has extremely slow performance with Use Graphics Processor enabled in my preferences (which Photoshop selects by default). If I turn off Use Graphics Processor, the slow performance vanishes. If I change Drawing Mode to Basic, there might be a slightly detectable improvement over Normal and Advanced, but it's still horribly slow. The refresh rate seems to be just a few frames per second. Everything is slow: brushes, zooming, panning, everything.
    I've tried changing the settings I've seen suggested elsewhere: I switched Cache levels to 2, history states to 10, and tile size to 128k. No effect. Photoshop is currently at the default of using 60% of available ram. Efficiency has remained at 100% throughout all my tests. Also, this slow performance has affected me from the moment I installed Photoshop; it didn't crop up after previous good performance. The problem exists regardless of the size or number of documents I have open. Performance is still terrible even when I create a 500 x 500 pixel blank new canvas and try a simple task like drawing with the brush.
    Photoshop is fully up to date, and so are my graphics drivers (Catalyst version 13.1). Any help would be greatly appreciated; at the moment performance is so bad in Photoshop that it's unusable with graphics acceleration enabled. Thanks in advance for replying.
    Photoshop System Info:
    Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
    Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
    Version: 6.2
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
    Physical processor count: 4
    Processor speed: 2665 MHz
    Built-in memory: 16379 MB
    Free memory: 13443 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 14697 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 2
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    OpenCL Version: 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
    OpenGL Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Display: 1
    Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920
    Video Card Number: 2
    Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Driver Version:
    Driver Date:
    Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
    Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
    Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Number: 1
    Video Card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Driver Version: 9.12.0.0
    Driver Date: 20121219000000.000000-000
    Video Card Driver:
    Video Mode:
    Video Card Caption: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Video Card Memory: 0 MB
    Serial number: 90970078453021833509
    Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
    Temporary file path: C:\Users\RAFFAE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
    Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
    Scratch volume(s):
      C:\, 931.5G, 534.8G free
    Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
    Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
    Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
    Installed components:
       ACE.dll   ACE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2012/01/25-10:04:55   66.1025012   66.1025012
       AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   6.0.0  
       AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2012/09/10-12:31:21   5.0.4   79.517869
       AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.419471   66.419471
       AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   7.0.0.1686  
       AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   6,0,29,0  
       AGM.dll   AGM 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,7,0,56  
       aif_core.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ocl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ogl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   6.0.0.75 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 16 2012 18:00:00)   1.000000
       ARE.dll   ARE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       Bib.dll   BIB 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       boost_date_time.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_signals.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_system.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       cg.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  
       cgGL.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  
       CIT.dll   Adobe CIT   2.1.0.20577   2.1.0.20577
       CoolType.dll   CoolType 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       data_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       dvaaudiodevice.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvacore.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvamarshal.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvamediatypes.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvaplayer.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvatransport.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvaunittesting.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dynamiclink.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo 2012/01/17-15:11:19   66.145433   66.145433
       filter_graph.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       hydra_filters.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       icucnv40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       icudt40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       image_compiler.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_runtime.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.236923   66.236923
       libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)  
       libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  
       LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1681  
       mediacoreif.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       MPS.dll   MPS 2012/02/03-10:33:13   66.495174   66.495174
       msvcm80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcm90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       msvcp100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  
       msvcp80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcp90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       msvcr100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  
       msvcr80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcr90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04  
       Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       PlugPlug.dll   Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlug Standard Dll (64 bit)   3.0.0.383  
       PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       SCCore.dll   ScCore 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       ScriptUIFlex.dll   ScriptUIFlex 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       svml_dispmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  
       tbb.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  
       tbbmalloc.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  
       updaternotifications.dll   Adobe Updater Notifications Library   6.0.0.24 (BuildVersion: 1.0; BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   6.0.0.24
       WRServices.dll   WRServices Friday January 27 2012 13:22:12   Build 0.17112   0.17112
    Required plug-ins:
       3D Studio 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Accented Edges 13.0
       Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0
       Angled Strokes 13.0
       Average 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Bas Relief 13.0
       BMP 13.0
       Camera Raw 7.3
       Chalk & Charcoal 13.0
       Charcoal 13.0
       Chrome 13.0
       Cineon 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Clouds 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Collada 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Color Halftone 13.0
       Colored Pencil 13.0
       CompuServe GIF 13.0
       Conté Crayon 13.0
       Craquelure 13.0
       Crop and Straighten Photos 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 13.0
       Crosshatch 13.0
       Crystallize 13.0
       Cutout 13.0
       Dark Strokes 13.0
       De-Interlace 13.0
       Dicom 13.0
       Difference Clouds 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Diffuse Glow 13.0
       Displace 13.0
       Dry Brush 13.0
       Eazel Acquire 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Embed Watermark 4.0
       Entropy 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Extrude 13.0
       FastCore Routines 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Fibers 13.0
       Film Grain 13.0
       Filter Gallery 13.0
       Flash 3D 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Fresco 13.0
       Glass 13.0
       Glowing Edges 13.0
       Google Earth 4 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Grain 13.0
       Graphic Pen 13.0
       Halftone Pattern 13.0
       HDRMergeUI 13.0
       IFF Format 13.0
       Ink Outlines 13.0
       JPEG 2000 13.0
       Kurtosis 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Lens Blur 13.0
       Lens Correction 13.0
       Lens Flare 13.0
       Liquify 13.0
       Matlab Operation 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Maximum 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mean 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Measurement Core 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Median 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mezzotint 13.0
       Minimum 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       MMXCore Routines 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mosaic Tiles 13.0
       Multiprocessor Support 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Neon Glow 13.0
       Note Paper 13.0
       NTSC Colors 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Ocean Ripple 13.0
       Oil Paint 13.0
       OpenEXR 13.0
       Paint Daubs 13.0
       Palette Knife 13.0
       Patchwork 13.0
       Paths to Illustrator 13.0
       PCX 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Photocopy 13.0
       Photoshop 3D Engine 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Picture Package Filter 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Pinch 13.0
       Pixar 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Plaster 13.0
       Plastic Wrap 13.0
       PNG 13.0
       Pointillize 13.0
       Polar Coordinates 13.0
       Portable Bit Map 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Poster Edges 13.0
       Radial Blur 13.0
       Radiance 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Range 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Read Watermark 4.0
       Reticulation 13.0
       Ripple 13.0
       Rough Pastels 13.0
       Save for Web 13.0
       ScriptingSupport 13.1.2
       Shear 13.0
       Skewness 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Smart Blur 13.0
       Smudge Stick 13.0
       Solarize 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Spatter 13.0
       Spherize 13.0
       Sponge 13.0
       Sprayed Strokes 13.0
       Stained Glass 13.0
       Stamp 13.0
       Standard Deviation 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       STL 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Sumi-e 13.0
       Summation 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Targa 13.0
       Texturizer 13.0
       Tiles 13.0
       Torn Edges 13.0
       Twirl 13.0
       Underpainting 13.0
       Vanishing Point 13.0
       Variance 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Variations 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Water Paper 13.0
       Watercolor 13.0
       Wave 13.0
       Wavefront|OBJ 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       WIA Support 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Wind 13.0
       Wireless Bitmap 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       ZigZag 13.0
    Optional and third party plug-ins:
       DAZ Studio 3D Bridge 12.0
       DazUpdateScene 12.0
    Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
    Flash:
       Mini Bridge
       Kuler
    Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

    Great news!
    I followed your suggestion, Noel, and uninstalled my drivers with the Catalyst Uninstall Utility (which I hadn't used before), rebooted, reinstalled Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7, rebooted, deleted the PS Prefs, started PS, and now the performance is radically improved!
    It baffles me why I would need to do a clean driver uninstall in a new system environment that has only ever had this video card, and is only a few months old, but that action seems to be what's improved the situation. Note that because I deleted the PS preferences, the good performance now occurs with the default Use Graphics Processor enabled, and Drawing Mode set to Advanced (with every feature in the Advanced dialog checked except 30bit display).
    Having no reference point, I can't tell for sure if performance is as good as it theoretically ought to be for my system specs, but using the standard 13px brush is only slightly laggy behind the cursor, even if I become reckless and squiggle on the canvas violently. It wasn't just sluggish response before: Photoshop seemed to be in pain trying to draw the line segments as it laboured to catch up to the cursor. That is pretty much gone now.
    Much more tellingly, zooming and panning the canvas is like it ought to be, responsive and clean, more or less like it was for me in CS4 with my old Nvidia 9600GT. The poor performance with zooming and panning was the most worrying aspect of the issue. It's a great relief to see these working more properly now.
    I have to confess I'm a little embarrassed to have drug you through all this hassle only to discover that something as rudimentary as properly cleaning out the drivers would be the apparent solution. I never would have imagined that doing that, with such a new and stable system, would make any difference, since I don't have a legacy of older drivers dotting my hard drive. In any event, I'm really grateful that you guys took the time to try to help me.
    In the interest of completeness, here's the relevant portion of my system info after doing the reinstall steps I mentioned above:
    Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
    Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
    Version: 6.2
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
    Physical processor count: 4
    Processor speed: 2665 MHz
    Built-in memory: 16379 MB
    Free memory: 13680 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 14695 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 1024K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    OpenCL Version: 3.0
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
    OpenGL Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Display: 1
    Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920
    Video Card Number: 2
    Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Driver Version:
    Driver Date:
    Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
    Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
    Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Number: 1
    Video Card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Driver Version: 12.100.17.0
    Driver Date: 20130226000000.000000-000
    Video Card Driver:
    Video Mode:
    Video Card Caption: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Video Card Memory: 0 MB
    As you can see, the Microsoft Basic Render Driver still appears as a Video Card in the list. This presumably has something to do with Windows 8, and I really don't know if its presence here is still a sign that my card is not being used to its optimal capability. I have a hunch that the slight lag that I am still experiencing with the brush when Use Graphics Processor is on -- totally absent with the acceleration turned off -- implies that Photoshop is still unable to take maximum advantage of my card. I would assume that the brush tool should be more responsive with acceleration on than off, in a rig without any issues, but that's just assumption on my part. If you turn off Use Graphics Processor on your systems, is the brush tool more or less responsive?
    But again, panning the canvas with the hand tool is now extremely responsive, without any screen tearing or visible lag, and that's a massive improvement over the total meltdown of performance I was suffering from before.
    Thanks again very much for your help. I'm grateful to all of you who took the time to chime in.

  • Powerbook painfully slow performance

    Recently my powerbook has been running unusably slow. Here's a timeline:
    - Noticed slow opening of applications, saving, switching from application to application, browsing folders through finder.
    - Computer kept freezing after 1-10 minutes of use.
    - Checked RAM in system profiler - 1GB RAM showing 512 MB.
    - Removed RAM and restarted (new RAM being sent to me at present).
    - Freezing problem stopped. Slow performance improved for 2-5 minutes after startup but after 10 minutes, back to same old slow usage.
    - Checked hard drive, repaired permissions, did macjanitor cleanup.
    - Hardware check from startup DVD showed no problems. SMART check OK'd hard drive.
    - Archive and re-install tiger and updated to 10.4.9.
    - Activity monitor shows %CPU usage as fairly normal. Kernel_task is using about 720MB of virtual memory under very light/no user usage.
    - Created a new user and performance normal in new user, leading me to believe that the problem is related to user library and possibly preferences.
    - Put preferences folder on desktop and started putting my preferences back into user library folder bit by bit, restarting and testing. The performance would be better each time but hard to test as I have to wait at least 10 mins to test each time - time consuming business.
    Is there any way to narrow down which preference file is causing the problem without painstakingly re-adding preference files one by one to the user library folder, waiting 10 mins and testing?
    Otherwise, could the diagnosis above be due to something else all together. Been through the discussions and can't get anything to work so far. The RAM was the cause of the freezing problem, but seems to have brought on the slowness problem.
    Any help would be much appreciated, thanks Graeme.

    Graeme:
    If you have not done so recently run Unix Maintenance (CRON cleaning). Download and install MacJanitor and run all tests.
    Dr. Smoke's FAQ Tuning Mac OS X Performance has some hints you may find helpful.
    Regualar maintenance also helps performance. Take a look at the following articles:
    Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System maintenance
    Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
    Maintaining OS X
    Good luck.
    cornelius

  • Big Library:Slow Performance?

    I have about 10,000 photos (.jpg ~3MB each) in my Aperture Library. I want to add many more photos but I'm worried about slow performance. My questions:
    1. How big is your library or how big do you think the libraries can get?
    2. Have you noticed slower performance with larger libraries?
    3. Any opinion on breaking up into multiple smaller libraries vs. 1 larger library?

    I am running two libraries,
    one for all of my work related imagery, 15,000+ images 50/50 raw & jpegs and
    the other for all of my stuff I shoot of sporting clubs, the bit I give back to the community, 18,000+ predominantly jpeg's
    both run smoothly, one on the MacPro and the other on the G4 laptop.
    Issue starts to be the backing up, if you are thinking it will get BIG, try a library for each client. Could be a good selling point as well, "your imagery is isolated from other clients and has its own dedicated backup".
    Tony

  • Oracle Collaboration Suite Slow Performance

    Hi,
    I have encountered with problem with OCS 10.1.2 with following information:
    Hardware : DL-380G5
    Operating System : OEL 4 update 5 64 bit
    Oracle Product : Collaboration Suite 10.1.2
    The installation has been done in three server as follow:
    Server 1: Application Tier (OCS component such as mail, calendar , discussion , ...)
    Server 2: Infrastructure (Oracle Single Sign on)
    Server 3 : Infrastructure (Oracle Internet Directory)
    Patch Information : Cumulative Patch 10.1.2.4 (Note: 406284.1) + Mandatory Patch after 10.1.2.4 ( Note:
    423515.1) + Patch 10.1.0.5 on Infrastructure layer
    have been applied on Application tier and Infrastructure.
    Problem_ Everything goes well after reboot of all 3 servers and refresh but after 2 hours nobody can
    connect to OCS services due to slow performance
    Only restarting the servers cause the users can connect to OCS services again.
    Any Idea will be appreciated.
    Edited by: Oralinux on Oct 29, 2009 5:08 PM

    Did you ever find out why this was happening? We seemed to have developed a similar issue and we have had a Severity 1 level SR for 4 days now and no one seems to able to work it out.
    cheers
    paul

  • Lion: very slow performance of my macbook pro

    very slow performance.
    went to terminal, did the top command, and got following results (mind you, ONLY have Safari and of course Terminal open):
    Processes: 96 total, 4 running, 9 stuck, 83 sleeping, 419 threads      19:07:17
    Load Avg: 1.99, 1.81, 1.59  CPU usage: 2.36% user, 5.21% sys, 92.41% idle
    SharedLibs: 1660K resident, 0B data, 0B linkedit.
    MemRegions: 15947 total, 2662M resident, 47M private, 209M shared.
    PhysMem: 695M wired, 2175M active, 1083M inactive, 3953M used, 13M free.
    VM: 250G vsize, 1093M framework vsize, 699065(68) pageins, 1724738(881) pageouts
    Networks: packets: 70104/55M in, 66648/10M out.
    Disks: 966630/9347M read, 327765/18G written.
    PID   COMMAND      %CPU  TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE
    4058  top          5.2   00:03.32 1/1  0    28   29    912K   216K   1620K
    4055  bash         0.0   00:00.02 1    0    20   23    356K   216K   1112K
    4052  CVMCompiler  0.0   00:00.30 1    0    30   69    7780K  220K   16M
    4051  login        0.0   00:00.08 2    1    33   63    928K   216K   2184K
    4049  Terminal     0.3   00:01.34 7    3    128+ 164+  7580K+ 13M    15M+
    4042  ocspd        0.0   00:00.02 1    0    26   33    420K+  276K   1376K+
    4041  WebProcess   0.0   00:04.35 7    3    119  201   16M-   10M    26M-
    4039  Safari       1.1   00:09.44 12   3    193  413   47M-   20M    81M-
    3958  spindump_age 0.0   00:00.02 2    2    38   55    356K   220K   1100K
    3956  spindump     1.3   00:42.93 16/1 13   228  145   46M+   15M    53M+
    3953  aosnotifyd   0.0   00:00.18 3    1    53   279   2064K  3532K  6156K
    3939  AddressBookM 6.8   06:59.11 4    1    68   4067+ 2131M- 3308K  1554M-
    3895  lsboxd       0.0   00:00.06 2    2    49   69    1156K  6820K  3292K
    3031  cookied      0.0   00:01.36 2    1    42   82    2028K  268K   3
    every minute or so the computer blocks, every 3 or 4 hours I have to restart etc.
    any suggestions?

    ok, stopped syncing in System preferences and even (horror) deleted the file which reappeared in seconds.
    now waiting to see if stopping the syncing helps - though computer is now working a bit better, the info on Activity Monitor would indicate it is not a real improvement
    473           AddressBookMobileMeSharingAgent          me          1,4          4          1.020,0 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    312           helpd          me          0,4          65          358,9 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    0           kernel_task          root          1,1          76          336,6 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    459           Mail          me          0,4          9          276,2 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    194           java          root          0,1          30          162,4 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    405           Safari          me          0,5          12          120,0 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    407           Safari Web Content          me          0,2          7          100,3 MB          Intel (64 bit)
    195           WindowServer          _windowserver          0,5          7          64,4 MB          Intel (64 bit)

  • Mac pro Slow Performance

    Hello Everyone,
    I made a similar post about this subject not to long ago but now im back in the same situation. I will just recap everything that i did and hear your guys thoughts on what i did.
    So to make a long story short.. I have a 2009 imac that contains all of my applications that i use on a daily basis. I then bought a 2012 12-core Mac Pro. Instead of being patient i wanted to start using this machine right away. I then set up migration assistant on both machines and literally copied everything over from my imac to my newly purchased mac pro. I later realized that this was a bad idea because it brought over boat loads of crap that was not being used (essentially 700GB) My computer was running very slow, defiantly not at speed of what a 12-core should be running at. so i started cleaning it up to the best that i could and was able to clear up 200 or so GB's. I still was not satisfied by the results i was getting. I kept getting beach balls and slow performance overall. so i went out and bought a 120GB SSD drive and figured that would be my best solution... well certainly it was at first. I then cleaned up my applications folder to clear up room in that folder. so after that was done i used migration assistant to transfer JUST the APPLICATIONS over to the SSD. After that was complete i then received a ton of crap on on the SSD. On boot up im not getting a pop up that is attached to a program i use to have on the iMac and is started to run slower than before the migration to the SSD...
    So basically this is where i stand. I am thinking about just starting over from scratch and only bring over the files and applications that i need on the SSD. What is the best way to take applications off of my imac and put them onto my mac pro (meaning without migration assistant) The reason i need to transfer them over is because i do not have all of the applications on CD form to just re-install again. However, if i need to get the applications from the CD's for this to work then i will just have tp go through with that extra bit of trouble to do it the right way.
    The whole purpose of this is trying to clean up my computer and keep it as organized as possible.
    If anyone has any recommendations for the best way to perform this operation, its greatly appreciated!
    thanks in advance!

    A clean install along with Setup Assistant (or Migration Assistant) really is good and important way to go.
    Too many issues moving to a newer OS and it has been made easy.
    You can CCC clone the home folders elsewhere.
    You can CCC the system and apps to another drifve and retain just your home library (the part that is now hidden which is annoying to some and taking too invasive into user space as if we can't and don't need access?)
    ~/Library
    The only apps you can are ones you may as well just download and mount and drag, the type that lack and don't need to install anything anywheres but the package of the app itself.

  • Airport Express and USB Hard drive and extremely slow performance

    HI Guys,
    I seem to having a lot of trouble with an Airport express and a Lacie 1TB drive. While I have solved several problems by updating firmware and enabling journalling on the Lacie, I am still having problems with extremely slow performance with my macbook, particularly using itunes and Firefox.
    Any ideas and any further information needed?
    Regards
    BJDprivate

    BjdPrivate wrote:
    HI,
    I formatted it using the Lacie setup program for Mac and later enabled it for journalling using Disk utility. This seemed to solve a lot of the recognition problems I was having, however the I-Tunes and firefox performance is still atrocious. If I do Need to completely reformat it using Disk Utility, will I lose my files on the disk now?
    not if you move them to a temporary location before you start.
    yes, you are better of formatting the drive with DU.

  • Extremely slow performance with ojdbc6.jar on IBM JVMs (Java 6)

    We are consistently seeing slow performance (easily demonstrable by the simplest of test cases) while using ojdbc6.jar on IBM JDKs. Pefrormance is normal when we simply opt for ojdbc14.jar under the same JDK, same java program.
    Works well
    =======
    JRockit, ojdbc6.jar
    JRockit, ojdbc14.jar
    IBM JDK, ojdbc14.jar
    A lot slower
    =======
    IBM JDK, ojdbc6.jar
    All we had to do was to write a simple JDBC access program and measure time taken around
    Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbcURL, dbProps);
    The first 3 combinations mentioned above return comparable numbers. The 4th combination takes 3-4 times as much.
    We initially saw this during performance test of our software on WebSphere (also supported on Weblogic). Later was able to eliminate WebSphere and Weblogic as the problem areas and narrow it down to the JVM. Reproduce-able on development machines.
    We have been using Oracle/WLS since BEA used to market 'Tengah' servers. This is the worst we have seen as far as the qaulity of support staff goes. We first level support seems clueless. We filed this case and the support comes back tells us that IBM JDKs are not supported for WLS! Oh, we have been running WLS/AIX/IBM JVM combination only for 5+ years.

    A quick solution to test this would be to do the following:
    mv /dev/random /dev/random.bk
    ln /dev/urandom /dev/random
    Note: The quick solution will disappear after a reboot. You could add it to rc.local to automatically make this change, but I wouldn't recommend it.
    The following is from [http://www.usn-it.de/index.php/2009/02/20/oracle-11g-jdbc-driver-hangs-blocked-by-devrandom-entropy-pool-empty/]:
    "Oracle 11g JDBC driver hangs blocked by /dev/random – entropy pool empty
    On a headless (=without console) network server, the 11g JDBC driver used for (java) application connect may cause trouble. In my case, it refused to connect to the DB without any error, trace or log entry. It simply hung. After several hours, it connected one time, and freezed again. Remote debugging done by the development clarified that it locks after calling SeedGenerator() and SecureRandom().
    Reason: The JDBC 11g needs about 40 bytes of secure random numbers, gathered from /dev/random, to encrypt its connect string.
    But public-available “man 4 random” says:
    When read, the /dev/random device will only return random bytes within the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy pool. /dev/random should be suitable for uses that need very high quality randomness such as one-time pad or key generation. When the entropy pool is empty, reads from /dev/random will block until additional environmental noise is gathered.
    So far so good, now the question arises: Why does this mystic “entropy pool” runs out of gas?
    The answer is as simple as unsatisfying: because too less entropy “noise” was generated by the system. You can check the “filling level” (maybe zero?) of your pool and the overall size of the pool (usually 4096) by issuing
    cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
    cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
    Hint: /dev/random will deliver one new random number as soon as the pool has reached more than 64 entropy units.
    So why does my box not generate more entropy noise?
    Because only few drivers will fill the entropy pool, first of all keyboard and mouse. Sounds very useful on a server in a datacenter, isn’t it? Some block device and network drivers seem to do so as well, and I have read from guys on the net changing their network card and driver to enjoy this “feature”! But let’s stop ranting, /dev/random is simply made for high security randomness, and if it can’t make sure that randomness is as good as possible in this deterministic world, it stops. Intelligent people have created /dev/urandom for that, like “man 4 random” clearly states:
    A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy. As a result, if there is not sufficient entropy in the entropy pool, the returned values are theoretically vulnerable to a cryptographic attack on the algorithms used by the driver. Knowledge of how to do this is not available in the current non-classified literature, but it is theoretically possible that such an attack may exist. If this is a concern in your application, use /dev/random instead.
    Now let’s get back on our JDBC problem. Oracle JDBC 11g seems to use /dev/random by default, which causes usually no trouble on clients running with console access by a user, because his/her unpredictable :) actions will keep the entropy pool well-fed. But to make it usable on a headless server with a latently empty entropy pool, you should do several things, in descending security order (without warranty):
    1. Involve an audio entroy daemon like AED to gather noise from your datacenter with an open microphone, maybe combine it with a webcam noise collector like VED. Other sources are talking about “Cryptographic Randomness from Air Turbulence in Disk devices“. :)
    2. Use the Entropy Gathering Daemon to collect weaker entropy from randomness of userspace programs.
    3. Talk your JDBC into using /dev/urandom instead:
    -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom"

Maybe you are looking for

  • How do I import backup files of Thunderbird profiles and Firefox bookmarks from my Windows XP computer, which are on a USB flashdrive, to my Windows 7 computer?

    Carbonite provided me with complete backup copy of all files on my prior Windows XP computer, on a 32GB Data Traveler USB flashdrive, so I can transfer them to my new windows 7 computer. Many of those files will simply restore....but, I believe that

  • How do I print emails?

    I am able to print documents, pictures, but I can't print emails.  I get a print out of outlook.com-my email address, date and time on the top of the page, the body of the emaIl is blank, at the bottom of the page there is what looks like the web add

  • Business Process Monitoring with SAPCCMSR Agents

    Hi I have installed a SAPCCMSR Agent in a non-sap system to monitor log files. This is the configuration about a particularly log file: LOGFILE_TEMPLATE DIRECTORY="E:\LOG" FILENAME="senddata*.txt" PATTERN_0="error" VALUE_0=RED MONITOR_NEWEST_FILES=1

  • Still the same DSL/Intern​et break-ups

    well according to forum Tonya answered me in a private message..and problem resolved NOT UH okay where? it says problem resolved, I DON'T THINK SO, still losing internet  constantly, the lights on the modem always going off, in fact tried sending thi

  • User decision option not seen to approver

    We have a user decision in our workflow template. We have decision option Select approver ,Sent back to AP ,Cancel . When some users execute the this task they were shown as decision decision and cancel. decision option text is not shown to them. Thi