Large Poster Creation Much Slower
I have been using Keynote for years to make posters, since it worked so much better than PPT with importing pdf files and opacity and such, but the new 09 update has made working with said posters extremely slow. The simple act of dragging objects now takes 100% of the processing power and the computer is unresponsive for a second or two, anyone else had this problem?
I'm guessing it's for Scientific or Education research "posters". Apple has a tutorial posted.
http://www.apple.com/science/productivitylab/#tutorial=researchposter
I haven't noticed the problem, but I think the processor going to 100% is a little much. How fast is your computer and does the same thing happen when you're just using a one slide presentation?
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PS CS3 much slower than CS2 on Intel Mac. I don't get it.
Yes, very very strange.
I work with very large files, so I just got a spiffy new Mac Pro. It's my first Intel machine, so I expected that CS2 would drag a little bit, due to Rosetta. In fact, moving from one processor to eight of them seems to have much more than compensated. Nevertheless, I ordered CS4 and while I wait I downloaded the demo of CS3.
I expected that CS3 would fly (no Rosetta) but have found my test tasks taking an inordinate amount of time... much slower than CS2 on the same Xeon workstation, and slower than CS2 on my old iMac (single 2.1GHz G5)
Since I work with extremely large files, I got a hardware RAID5 made up of four 15,000RPM SAS drives. I can't get enough RAM to avoid using scratch disk, so I attacked the biggest performance bottleneck. I did get 8GB of RAM; would have gotten more, but I read that it won't matter until CS goes 64-bit in CS5 at the earliest.
The rest of it: dual quad-core 2.8GHz "Woodcrest" Xeon processors, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT graphics card, OS X 10.5.5, all updates (Apple and Adobe) applied as of 6pm Wednesday October 8th.
I'm running two tests as my benchmark: open a file (PSD created with CS2, 75" x 75" at 400ppi, two layers, RGB with one additional channel) and resize to 75" x 75" at 800ppi. Once that is done, I rotate the new, massive file counterclockwise 18.5 degrees.
On my old setup, 2.1GHz SP G5 iMac with CS2, these tasks took 38m 30s and 1h 33m 22s respectively.
New machine with CS2: 10m 09s and 29m 14s respectively
New machine with CS3: 42m 38s and 1h 36m 24s
(above tests run repeatedly: these numbers are the fastest numbers for each configuration)
I have nothing else running for these tests, except for Activity Monitor. What I've observed with Activity Monitor: the old G5 was pegged at (or very near) 100% CPU the whole time. Mac Pro with CS2, Photoshop ran most of the time on one CPU at a time, but spiked up as high as 250% CPU usage just for Photoshop.
I haven't seen Photoshop CS3 use more than 80% of one processor the whole time on the Mac Pro. Mostly it sits around 35%.
One more informal test: if I open that same file and downsample from 400ppi to 200ppi, CS2 does it in 1m 40s. CS3: 6m 57s. I don't have the iMac any more so I can't tell you how long it would take there.
In both CS2 and CS3 the scratch disk is my startup volume, but it's a RAID. I can't add any more drives except for external drives. I could have configured it to one dedicated system drive and a second scratch volume made up of the remaining three drives, but I consulted with people who know RAID better than I do who agreed that since everything is going through the SCSI controller and everything gets written to multiple drives in order to make it faster that I'd get a performance hit by splitting the RAID into two volumes, even if multiple processes are trying to get at the same drive array. Even adding a Firewire 800 drive for scratch would be slower than using the RAID. Or so I've been told.
So, this seems absurd. CS3 is not using Rosetta, right? So it should be flying on my machine. What on earth could I have done to a fresh CS3 (demo) install to make it slower than CS2 on my old G5? Is the CS3 demo crippled? Is there a conflict having CS2 and the CS3 demo on the same machine?
I'm stumped.>Ya see, this is the attitude you really, really should get over. The Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) code is just fine... it's your system (hardware/software) which, for some reason is not providing an optimal environment.
Jeff, I agree completely. You seem to be assuming that I actually think Adobe wrote bad code. In fact, I believe Adobe did NOT write bad code (and I wrote that) but that the condition that you are suggesting (CS3 being slowed by having having scratch and system on the same volume to a far greater extent than CS2) could only be caused by bad code by Adobe. Since I believe that, as you say, a universal difference of this magnitude between CS2 and CS3 would be noticed by huge numbers of users, I doubt that what I am seeing is the result of having scratch and system on the same volume.
In case I'm being less than clear:
Scratch and system were on the same volume for CS2.
Scratch and system were on the same volume for CS3.
On my system CS2 performs tasks three to four times faster than CS3.
ergo, either there is some problem other than scratch and system being on the same volume (perhaps something that exacerbates the scratch/system/same volume issue, OK, I accept that possibility) or else the change has been between CS2s and CS3s handling of scratch disks.
If for the sake of argument we rule out the possibility that CS3 handles the condition of scratch and system being on the same volume worse than CS2 does, the only possibility left is that there is SOMETHING ELSE WRONG WITH MY SYSTEM.
I am trying to find out what that other thing is. You're the one insisting that scratch and system being on the same volume is the cause of the CS3 slowdown. Accusing me of not believing that there's something wrong with my system misses the mark entirely. I ABSOLUTELY believe there is something wrong with my system.
> Your RAM tests sound pretty thorough, but if I had your large-files workflow I would buy two (or preferably 4) 4-GB sized matched RAM DIMMs, remove all the existing RAM, and install only the new RAM to further test whether or not the old RAM is anomalous.
Thanks Allen,
Actually, this is exactly what I've done, though in a different order. My system shipped with two 1GB chips. I bought two 4GB chips from OWC and installed them, and found my CS2 performance to increase significantly. It was only then that I tried installing the CS3 demo. When I found CS3 running my tests more slowly than expected, I pulled the new RAM out and tried with just the original 2GB and tested both CS2 and CS3 again. Then I took the original 2GB out, put only the new RAM in and tested CS2 and CS3 again, finding the same results. Currently I have all 10GB in the system and for the moment I'm setting aside the possibility of a problem with the RAM (or at least setting aside the possibility that the RAM chips are just plain bad) because that would indicate that both the new and the old RAM are both bad in the same way. That seems unlikely.
So I guess I'll have to drag the system down to the Genius Bar if I don't see an improvement from rearranging my hard drives.
The update there is that last night I backed up my system, and this morning I deleted my RAID5 set, blowing away everything on my system until I can restore from backup. The new configuration is 1 JBOD drive plus three drives attached as RAID0.
Unfortunately, neither of the new volumes is visible when I go to restore from backup. For the moment, this little experiment has cost me my entire system. The upshot is that it may be some more time before I have any more information to share. Even when I do get it working again, I can expect restoring to take the same 12 hours that backing up did.
I will certainly post here when I've got my system back. -
In CS6, JavaScript Running MUCH Slower than ActionScript
Hi All,
I am finding that in CS6, JS code runs MUCH slower than ActionScript code. I don't want to double-post here - Full details may be found where I posted them in the InDesign Scripting forum at - CS6 JavaScript Running Much Slower than ActionScript, before I realized that this forum might be more appropriate.
The basic gist of it is that I had a Flex/ActionScript Extension, which I obviously needed to start converting to JavaScript in advance of the next version not supporting ActionScript. I converted 20,000 lines of my business logic code from ActionScript to JavaScript (grrr...) - only to find that it now runs 5 times slower than it did in ActionScript.
What has been the experience of others who have converted large Extensions from ActionScript to JavaScript?
I would greatly appreciate any and all suggestions.
TIA,
mlavieHi All,
I am finding that in CS6, JS code runs MUCH slower than ActionScript code. I don't want to double-post here - Full details may be found where I posted them in the InDesign Scripting forum at - CS6 JavaScript Running Much Slower than ActionScript, before I realized that this forum might be more appropriate.
The basic gist of it is that I had a Flex/ActionScript Extension, which I obviously needed to start converting to JavaScript in advance of the next version not supporting ActionScript. I converted 20,000 lines of my business logic code from ActionScript to JavaScript (grrr...) - only to find that it now runs 5 times slower than it did in ActionScript.
What has been the experience of others who have converted large Extensions from ActionScript to JavaScript?
I would greatly appreciate any and all suggestions.
TIA,
mlavie -
TDMS functions much slower in CVI 2010
Hello everyone.
Today I noticed that at least some TDMS functions are much slower in CVI 2010 compared to CVI 2009 SP1 and prior. I have created and attached a simple sample project that creates a TDMS file with about 3000 file level properties and tries to read it back in afterwards. On all releases prior to 2010, this needs less than 10 seconds. On 2010 it's around an hour, if not more! Unfortunateky this is pretty much a show-stopper for me. Any comments?
Thanks, Marcel
Attachments:
tdmsTimingTest.zip 3 KBHello Marcel -
What you've reported is actually a known issue, and is unfortunately considered to be expected behavior. Let me try to explain:
There was a relatively large refactoring of the underlying TDMS code in LabWindows/CVI 2010. This refactoring was intended to more closely align our internal implementation to that of LabVIEW. As a result of this refactoring, we were able to address some internal issues we had previously been unable to address, as well as more correctly handle the data stored in the TDMS file. Unfortunately, this refactoring unmasked a performance issue that had always been present when reading a large number of properties one at a time.
This performance issue was not uncovered for LabWindows/CVI 2010 because we had previously focused our performance testing on reading and writing data to a file, not metadata. We considered it unlikely that a customer would have more than dozens of properties for any one channel or group or file, and as a result, the performance issues you've reported were overlooked.
However, we did recently find the performance issues you've reported. As a result, there will be a handful of undocumented functions for returning all (or a subset of) properties on a channel, group, or file in LabWindows/CVI 2010 SP1. This will allow for performance in line with what you'd seen in LabWindows/CVI 2009 SP1 and earlier, as long as you are OK with grabbing all the properties at once. These functions are undocumented because, in general, we don't release new features with service packs. Also, the functions are a little more difficult to use than normal CVI APIs, so we have not yet determined how or when they will be publicly documented. When LabWindows/CVI 2010 SP1 releases (later this summer), feel free to reply back to this post or send me a private message, and I'll work with you on the details of calling these undocumented functions.
Out of curiosity, we'd like to know your use case for creating that many properties. You're the first customer we've encountered using such a large number of properties, and we'd like to ensure that we are able to satisfy your use case in future versions of the API.
Thanks for the report, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience this has caused,
NickB
National Instruments -
My four year old iMac is running much slower than when it was new. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to "clean it up" and get it running like it used to?
What year, screen size, CPU speed and amount of RAM installed?
To find out info about your system,
Click on the Apple symbol in the upper left of the OS X main menu bar. A drop down menu appears.
Click About this Mac. A smaller popup window appears. This gives you basic info like what version of OS X your iMac is running, the speed of your iMac's CPU and how much RAM is installed.
Click on the button that says More Info. A larger window appears giving you a complete overview of your iMac's hardware specs.
Highlight all of this info and copy/paste all of this into another reply to this post, editing out your iMac's serial number before actually posting the reply.
This will tell us everything about your iMac so we may begin to help with your iMac issues.
How full is your Mac's hard drive?
Locate your iMac's hard drive icon on the OS X desktop. Click the icon once, then use the keyboard key combination Command-I. This will give you additonal info about your iMac's internal hard drive.
Post this info in your reply here, also.
Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible
You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!
With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.
Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.
STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
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How Can I Improve Mavericks Performance (much slower than 10.8)?
When I upgraded to OS 10.9, I immediately saw a significant slower performance than with 10.8 or 10.7 (which I had been using for about two years). One big difference was a delay with the boot disc thrashing a lot when I started the computer and when I launched any app. That is, after starting my Mac Pro (2008), once the windows are all visible, there is a 30+ second delay (with the boot disc thrashing a lot) before it responds. A very similar thing happens when I launch any app. For example, when I launch iPhoto, after the photos appear, it takes 30+ seconds before it reponds to any mouse clicks. Under 10.7 and 10.8, there was about a 5 second delay (which I always thought was Faces doing its thing). This disc thrashing and delay before the app will respond happens with every app (Word, iMovie, Disc Utility, etc.) These delays never occured under 10.7 or 10.8.
A few people on the Apple Support forum suggested I run EtreCheck and remove various apps that they said could cause a problem with the OS. I removed every app they suggested, but I do not see any difference in performance. In my opinion, OS 10.9 has implemented something new that is causing my Mac Pro to run much slower.
I just ran a Safe Boot (using shift key while starting). I don't see any difference.
I would appreciate any advice.
EtreCheck Results:
Hardware Information:
Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Mac Pro - model: MacPro3,1
2 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPUs: 8 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT - VRAM: 512 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 1:57:13
Disk Information:
ST3750640AS P disk0 : (750.16 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (299.96 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
ST31000340AS disk2 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Movies&DVDs (disk2s2) /Volumes/Movies&DVDs: 999.86 GB (140.99 GB free)
ST31000340AS disk1 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
OS10.6 (disk1s2) /Volumes/OS10.6: 999.86 GB (882.64 GB free)
USB Information:
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
NEC Corporation USB2.0 Hub Controller
Canon MX850 series
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Apple Computer, Inc. iSight 200mbit - 400mbit max
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
User Login Items:
iTunes
Mail
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Growl
Java
Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Default Browser.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 749.3 GB Disk used: 449.33 GB
Movies&DVDs: Disk size: 999.86 GB Disk used: 858.87 GB
Destinations:
Data [Network] (Last used)
Total size: 3 TB
Total number of backups: 79
Oldest backup: 2012-12-18 07:58:20 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-30 01:06:05 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 3 TB < (Disk used 1.31 TB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU:
13% mds
1% WindowServer
1% EtreCheck
0% ocspd
0% fontd
0% syncdefaultsd
0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
549 MB iTunes
385 MB mds_stores
319 MB com.apple.MediaLibraryService
139 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
131 MB Mail
106 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
82 MB soagent
82 MB Safari
74 MB PhotoStreamAgent
74 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Statistics:
3.56 GB Free RAM
3.38 GB Active RAM
265 MB Inactive RAM
821 MB Wired RAM
433 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outsFirst, back up all data immediately unless you already have a current backup. If you can't back up, stop here. Do not take any of the steps below.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal 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 Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Reset the System Management Controller.
Run Software Update. If there's a firmware update, install it.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a portable computer, check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement.
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. See whether there's any change.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, 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 View menu or 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 Memory tab. What value is shown in the bottom part of the window for Swap used?
Next, select the Disk tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in andWrites out.)
Step 4
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 by pressing the key combinationcommand-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. -
Computer running much slower since upgrading to mavericks
Ever since I downloaded and installed the upgrade to Mavericks, my computer has taken much longer than it used to, to wake form sleep mode. Is there any way to fix this?
Some users have reported solving this problem by resetting the NVRAM (PRAM.) One user reports long delays in waking from sleep after enabling FileVault. I can't reproduce that experience, but if applicable, you could try disabling FileVault.
If you've installed something called "iCleanMemory," or any other third-party software that is supposed to "clean" or "free up" memory, remove it according to the developer's instructions after backing up all data. Reboot and test. If there's no change, continue.
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you boot, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, reboot as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test. -
Parameterized queries running much slower than ones with hardcoded values
Very often there is a huge performance difference when using parameters in a query, compared to running the same code after replacing the parameters with hardcoded values: the parameterized version of the code runs much slower!
The case is not parameter sniffing as it is not a (compiled) stored proc, but code executed directly from the editor and the performance issue has been observed in different versions of SQL Server (2000 and 2005).
How is this explained and how can the parameterized queries have similar performance with the hardcoded ones?
Also, why does this happen in some cases and not always?
Finally, the same is sometimes the case with stored procs: a very slow running proc speeds up tremendously when running its code directly, instead of calling the procedure --and even faster, according to the previous, when its parameters are replaced with
hardcoded values>>The case is not parameter sniffing as it is not a (compiled) stored proc, but code executed >>>directly
from the editor ?>>>and the performance issue has been observed in different >>>versions of SQL Server (2000 and 2005).
Something like below?
--SQL Server creates 3 execution plan rather only one
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
GO
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
WHERE SalesOrderID = 56000
GO
SELECT * FROM
AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderHeader WHERE
SalesOrderID = 56001
GO
declare @i int
set @i = 56004
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
WHERE SalesOrderID = @i
GO
select stats.execution_count AS exec_count,
p.size_in_bytes as [size],
[sql].[text] as [plan_text]
from sys.dm_exec_cached_plans p
outer apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text (p.plan_handle) sql
join sys.dm_exec_query_stats stats ON stats.plan_handle = p.plan_handle
GO
----This time only (we get parameterization)
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
GO
EXEC sp_executesql N'SELECT SUM(LineTotal) AS LineTotal
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader H
JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail D ON D.SalesOrderID = H.SalesOrderID
WHERE H.SalesOrderID = @SalesOrderID', N'@SalesOrderID INT', 56000
GO
EXEC sp_executesql N'SELECT SUM(LineTotal) AS LineTotal
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader H
JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail D ON D.SalesOrderID = H.SalesOrderID
WHERE H.SalesOrderID = @SalesOrderID', N'@SalesOrderID INT', 56005
GO
select stats.execution_count AS exec_count,
LEFT([sql].[text], 80) as [plan_text]
from sys.dm_exec_cached_plans p
outer apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text (p.plan_handle) sql
join sys.dm_exec_query_stats stats ON stats.plan_handle = p.plan_handle
GO
Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP,
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Why index creation is slower on the new server?
Hi there,
Here is a bit of background/env info:
Existing prod server (physical): Oracle 10gR2 10.2.0.5.8 on ASM
RAM: 96GB
CPUs: 8
RHEL 5.8 64bit
Database size around 2TB
New server:
VMWare VM with Oracle 10gR2 10.2.0.5.8 on ASM
RAM 128GB
vCPUs: 16
RHEL 5.8 64bit
Copy of prod DB (from above server) - all init param are the same
I noticed that Index creation is slower on this server. I ran following query:
SELECT name c1, cnt c2, DECODE (total, 0, 0, ROUND (cnt * 100 / total)) c3
FROM (SELECT name, VALUE cnt, (SUM (VALUE) OVER ()) total
FROM v$sysstat
WHERE name LIKE 'workarea exec%')
C1
C2
C3
workarea executions - optimal
100427285
100
workarea executions - onepass
2427
0
workarea executions - multipass
0
0
Following bitmap index takes around 40mins in prod server while it takes around 2Hrs on the VM.
CREATE BITMAP INDEX MY_IDX ON
MY_HIST(PROD_YN) TABLESPACE TS_IDX PCTFREE 10
STORAGE(INITIAL 12582912 NEXT 12582912 PCTINCREASE 0 ) NOLOGGING
This index is created during a batch-process and the dev team is complaining of slowness of the batch on new server. I have found this one statement responsible for some of the grief. There may be more and I am investigating.
I know that adding "parallel" option may speedup but I want find out why is it slow on the new server.
I tried creating a simple index on a large table and it took 2min in prod and 3.5min on this VM. So I guess index creation is slower on this VM in general. DMLs (select/insert/delete/update) seem to work with better elapsed time.
Any clues what might be causing this slowness in index creation?
Best regardsI have been told that the SAN in use by the VM has capacity of 10K IOPS. Not sure of this info helps. I don't know more than this about the storage.
What else do I need to find out? Please let me know - I'll check with my Sys Admin and update the thread.
Best regards -
ACR processing in CS6 much slower than CS5
A big advantage of hosting ACR in 64 bit CS5 vs in bridge was that then ACR would process multiple images at once when saving them to jpg which would reduce processing times by 30% or more. For some reason this doesn't seem to be the case with CS6. I just did a short test and CS6 won't process multiple images at once, and was 33% slower than CS5 at saving a batch of 5dmkii images to jpeg.
Has anyone else noticed this? Hopefully this limitation is due to beta status and the final release of ACR will be fully optimized for 64bit processing.It seems strange that their is hardly any improvement in 64 bit cs6 speed vs 32 bit cs5. I agree, gpu support for acr would great!
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:25:25 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: ACR processing in CS6 much slower than CS5
Re: ACR processing in CS6 much slower than CS5
created by Noel Carboni in Photoshop CS6 - View the full discussion
Bridge in CS5 was 32 bit only, and I observed the 32 bit converter as run by Bridge (or Photoshop 32 bit) wouldn't exercise all the cores, so the way I interpret your numbers is as follows:
1. ACR7 is 50% slower than its predecessor (34.25 seconds when run in Photoshop 64 bit vs. 22.59).
2. Bridge is now 64 bit, so you're running the same code in both cases, which is why you're seeing essentially the same number in Bridge as Photoshop.
-Noel
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Can iMac be updated or just get new one? On iMac with OSX10.5.8, 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo--it's so much slower than iPad. It hasn't had cache cleaned or "First aid". I'm wondering if a computer store/techie can clean/update it or better to put $$ towards new?
If you want to clean up your hard drive some, here are some of my tips, also.
Hard drive getting full or near full?
Do a search for and downlaod and install OmniDisk Sweeper and OnyX.
Here are some of my tips for deleting or archiving data off of your internal hard
Have you emptied your iMac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Other things you can do to gain space.
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive older emails you want to save to disc, Flash drive/s or to ext. hard drive.
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, Flash drive or ext. hard drive and/or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Uninstall apps that you no longer use. If the app has a dedicated uninstaller, use it to completely uninstall the app. If the app has no uninstaller, then just drag it to the OS X Trash icon and empty the Trash.
Also, if you save old downloaded .dmg application installer files, you can either archive and delete these or just delete the ones you think you'll never install, again.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its thing initially, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run all of the processes in the tabs. Let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be thinned out, moved, also, to the external hard drive and then either archived to disc, Flash drive or ext. hard drive and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
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A SQL tuning issue-sql runs much slower in test than in production?
Hi Buddies,
I am working on a sql tuning issue. A sql runs much slower in test than in production.
I compared the two explain plans in test and production
seems in test, CBO refuses to use index SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_I2.
we rebuile it and re-gether that index statistcs. run, still slow..
I compared the init.ora parameters like hash_area_size, sort_area_size in test, they are same as production.
I wonder if any expert friend can show some light.
in production,
SQL> set autotrace traceonly
SQL> SELECT rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd,
2 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd,
3 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd,
4 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id,
5 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.ntrl_accnt_cd,
6 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.gnrl_ldgr_chrt_of_accnt_nm,
7 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.lgl_entty_brnch_cd,
8 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.crprt_melob_cd AS corp_mlb_cd,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd, SUM (amt) AS amount
9 10 FROM rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw
11 WHERE rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd = '092008'
12 AND rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id = 'RCS0002100'
13 AND rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd = 'SAFF01'
14 GROUP BY rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd,
15 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd,
16 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd,
17 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id,
18 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.ntrl_accnt_cd,
19 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.gnrl_ldgr_chrt_of_accnt_nm,
20 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.lgl_entty_brnch_cd,
21 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.crprt_melob_cd,
22 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd;
491 rows selected.
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=130605 Card=218764 B
ytes=16407300)
1 0 SORT (GROUP BY) (Cost=130605 Card=218764 Bytes=16407300)
2 1 VIEW OF 'RPT_HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_VW' (Cost=129217 Ca
rd=218764 Bytes=16407300)
3 2 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=129217 Card=218764 Bytes=35877296)
4 3 UNION-ALL
5 4 HASH JOIN (Cost=61901 Card=109382 Bytes=17719884)
6 5 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'GNRL_LDGR_CHRT_OF_ACCNT'
(Cost=2 Card=111 Bytes=3774)
7 5 HASH JOIN (Cost=61897 Card=109382 Bytes=14000896
8 7 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'SUBLEDGER_CHART_OF_ACC
OUNT' (Cost=2 Card=57 Bytes=1881)
9 7 HASH JOIN (Cost=61893 Card=109382 Bytes=103912
90)
10 9 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_LINE' (Cost=
34 Card=4282 Bytes=132742)
11 9 HASH JOIN (Cost=61833 Card=109390 Bytes=7000
960)
12 11 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'SUBLEDGE
R_ENTRY' (Cost=42958 Card=82076 Bytes=3611344)
13 12 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_I
2' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=1069 Card=328303)
14 11 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_
LINK' (Cost=14314 Card=9235474 Bytes=184709480)
15 4 HASH JOIN (Cost=61907 Card=109382 Bytes=18157412)
16 15 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'GNRL_LDGR_CHRT_OF_ACCNT'
(Cost=2 Card=111 Bytes=3774)
17 15 HASH JOIN (Cost=61903 Card=109382 Bytes=14438424
18 17 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'SUBLEDGER_CHART_OF_ACC
OUNT' (Cost=2 Card=57 Bytes=1881)
19 17 HASH JOIN (Cost=61899 Card=109382 Bytes=108288
18)
20 19 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_LINE' (Cost=
34 Card=4282 Bytes=132742)
21 19 HASH JOIN (Cost=61838 Card=109390 Bytes=7438
520)
22 21 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'SUBLEDGE
R_ENTRY' (Cost=42958 Card=82076 Bytes=3939648)
23 22 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_I
2' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=1069 Card=328303)
24 21 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_
LINK' (Cost=14314 Card=9235474 Bytes=184709480)
Statistics
25 recursive calls
18 db block gets
343266 consistent gets
370353 physical reads
0 redo size
15051 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
1007 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
34 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
1 sorts (memory)
1 sorts (disk)
491 rows processed
in test
SQL> set autotrace traceonly
SQL> SELECT rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd,
2 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd,
3 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd,
4 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id,
5 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.ntrl_accnt_cd,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.gnrl_ldgr_chrt_of_accnt_nm,
6 7 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.lgl_entty_brnch_cd,
8 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.crprt_melob_cd AS corp_mlb_cd,
9 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd, SUM (amt) AS amount
10 FROM rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw
11 WHERE rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd = '092008'
12 AND rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id = 'RCS0002100'
AND rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd = 'SAFF01'
13 14 GROUP BY rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd,
15 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.bkng_prd,
16 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.systm_afflt_cd,
17 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.jrnl_id,
18 rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.ntrl_accnt_cd,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.gnrl_ldgr_chrt_of_accnt_nm,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.lgl_entty_brnch_cd,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.crprt_melob_cd,
rpt_horizon_subledger_entry_vw.onst_offst_cd; 19 20 21 22
no rows selected
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=92944 Card=708 Bytes
=53100)
1 0 SORT (GROUP BY) (Cost=92944 Card=708 Bytes=53100)
2 1 VIEW OF 'RPT_HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_VW' (Cost=92937 Car
d=708 Bytes=53100)
3 2 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=92937 Card=708 Bytes=124962)
4 3 UNION-ALL
5 4 HASH JOIN (Cost=46456 Card=354 Bytes=60180)
6 5 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'SUBLEDGER_CHART_OF_ACCOU
NT' (Cost=2 Card=57 Bytes=1881)
7 5 NESTED LOOPS (Cost=46453 Card=354 Bytes=48498)
8 7 HASH JOIN (Cost=11065 Card=17694 Bytes=1362438
9 8 HASH JOIN (Cost=27 Card=87 Bytes=5133)
10 9 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_LINE' (Cos
t=24 Card=87 Bytes=2175)
11 9 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'GNRL_LDGR_CHRT_OF_
ACCNT' (Cost=2 Card=111 Bytes=3774)
12 8 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_LI
NK' (Cost=11037 Card=142561 Bytes=2566098)
13 7 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'SUBLEDGER_EN
TRY' (Cost=2 Card=1 Bytes=60)
14 13 INDEX (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_PK'
(UNIQUE) (Cost=1 Card=1)
15 4 HASH JOIN (Cost=46456 Card=354 Bytes=64782)
16 15 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'SUBLEDGER_CHART_OF_ACCOU
NT' (Cost=2 Card=57 Bytes=1881)
17 15 NESTED LOOPS (Cost=46453 Card=354 Bytes=53100)
18 17 HASH JOIN (Cost=11065 Card=17694 Bytes=1362438
19 18 HASH JOIN (Cost=27 Card=87 Bytes=5133)
20 19 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_LINE' (Cos
t=24 Card=87 Bytes=2175)
21 19 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'GNRL_LDGR_CHRT_OF_
ACCNT' (Cost=2 Card=111 Bytes=3774)
22 18 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'HORIZON_SUBLEDGER_LI
NK' (Cost=11037 Card=142561 Bytes=2566098)
23 17 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'SUBLEDGER_EN
TRY' (Cost=2 Card=1 Bytes=73)
24 23 INDEX (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'SUBLEDGER_ENTRY_PK'
(UNIQUE) (Cost=1 Card=1)
Statistics
1134 recursive calls
0 db block gets
38903505 consistent gets
598254 physical reads
60 redo size
901 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
461 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
1 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
34 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
0 rows processed
Thanks a lot in advance
JerryHi
Basically there are two kinds of tables
- fact
- lookup
The number of records in a lookup table is usually small.
The number of records in a fact table is usually huge.
However, in test systems the number of records in a fact table is often also small.
This results in different execution plans.
I notice again you don't post version and platform info, and you didn't make sure your explain is properly idented
Please read the FAQ to make sure it is properly idented.
Also using the word 'buddies' is as far as I am concerned nearing disrespect and rudeness.
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA -
My Macbook Pro is about 4 to 5 years old. I've noticed the last few months that speed was becoming much slower. It slowed to a crawl last week and won't even turn on now. Where can I take my Macbook Pro for service near Jackson, Michigan?.
Things You Can Do To Keep Your Computer From Slowing Down
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion
Boot from your Lion Recovery HD. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. SyncTwoFolders
6. Synk Pro
7. Synk Standard
8. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file. -
I play a lot of games. I noticed my computer running much slower what can I do
I play a lot of games. I noticed my computer running much slower. Is there something I can do to fix probkem
Things You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites Menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)
Troubleshooting Applications
I recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail that you can use for removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Corrupted cache, log, or temporary files can cause application or OS X crashes as well as kernel panics.
If you have Snow Leopard or Leopard, then for similar repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
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