Processor Slowdown?

Greetings all,
I have an odd question for the G4 gurus. I receicently installed a Sonnet Encore/ST 1.4GHz processor and have noticed that I appear to be experiencing a slow all of the sudden. The day after I got everything running I ran The Retouch Artists speed test as a bench mark to see where I was (do a lot of Photoshopping ) and everthing went well. Three runs, three times, good results. Now, a few days later, I have done a reinstall and went to run the speed test and it hangs without fail at the same spot (the Gaussian blur step) everytime I run it. I'm also starting to notice little things like the mouse pointer hanging every so often, more beachballs of death, and last nite the system froze during an install of Halo. Anybody have and ideas or sugestions? I've been thru the archives here with little sucess, and Sonnets web site didn't help much either. I do have the actuall firmware patch installed (not Sonnet cache) and an currently running 10.4.6 (due to the reinstall). I appreciate the help and any and all advice.
Thanks very much,
Chris
G4 1.4 GHz "digital audio",1.5 GB RAM,30GB, 500 GB SATA (OS X) Mac OS X (10.4.8) Pioneer DVR-111D,FirmTek SeriTek 1V4, Radeon 9800 Pro

If you have OS 9 available, you could test your RAM with this.
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/5714
It's possible that some of your RAM can't handle the new processor.
Also, when you installed the processor, did you reset the PMU?

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CRASH REPORT:
Anonymous UUID:       674E5EFD-2B1D...
Fri Feb 13 14:12:01 2015
panic(cpu 8 caller 0xffffff800d8dcc1d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f8df3d00c, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000118, CR3: 0x00000000107ae000, CR4: 0x00000000000206e0
RAX: 0x000000c27b84bf58, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff8076e7c688, RDX: 0x00000000000000bd
RSP: 0xffffff8652ce3d60, RBP: 0xffffff8652ce3d60, RSI: 0x000000c27b84bf58, RDI: 0x0000000000000000
R8: 0xffffff8084a3e100, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff800de70800, R11: 0x0000000000000200
R12: 0xffffff8076e7c600, R13: 0xffffff8076e83000, R14: 0xffffff80761a5780, R15: 0xffffff80761a57e0
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff7f8df3d00c, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000118, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x8
Backtrace (CPU 8), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8652ce39f0 : 0xffffff800d823139
0xffffff8652ce3a70 : 0xffffff800d8dcc1d
0xffffff8652ce3c40 : 0xffffff800d8f4486
0xffffff8652ce3c60 : 0xffffff7f8df3d00c
0xffffff8652ce3d60 : 0xffffff7f8df3d53d
0xffffff8652ce3da0 : 0xffffff7f8ed5568f
0xffffff8652ce3df0 : 0xffffff7f8df3bf20
0xffffff8652ce3e40 : 0xffffff7f8df0be93
0xffffff8652ce3ea0 : 0xffffff7f8df0c337
0xffffff8652ce3ed0 : 0xffffff7f8e50796a
0xffffff8652ce3f40 : 0xffffff7f8e504256
0xffffff8652ce3f90 : 0xffffff7f8e5042e9
0xffffff8652ce3fb0 : 0xffffff800d8d7c67
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.7)[9E10AF10-FA6C-3261-B939-5D 0BC025ED9E]@0xffffff7f8df07000->0xffffff7f8df31fff
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.7)[9E10AF10-FA6C-3261-B939-5D 0BC025ED9E]@0xffffff7f8df07000
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13F34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Wed Dec 17 19:05:52 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 45486BF2-BDDE-34CB-8C71-606FF3FE181B
Kernel slide:     0x000000000d600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800d800000
System model name: MacPro5,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 815296086497
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RAM is not the issue in a Mac Pro with Xeon processor, unless you get a distinctive kernel panic, machine check. Otherwise, every Read from memory is checked by Hardware and errors are corrected on the fly, with essentially no slowdown. In the Mac Pro silver tower or dark cylinder, Memory problems do not fester undetected.
panic(cpu 8 caller 0xffffff800d8dcc1d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f8df3d00c, type 14=page fault
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.7)
         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(3.0)
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.7)
         com.highpoint-tech.kext.ru1022(1.0.3)
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(3.0.0)
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)
         com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.6.7)
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.7)
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.9)
Page fault is a reference to memory out of bounds (you do not own). It is most often caused by software.
If you remove the hexadecimal addresses from the stack trace as shown above, the list of what extensions were at the "scene of the crime" becomes much more clear. That is why I could see that your external (SCSI architecture) drives were implicated, and thomas_r. could call out the highpoint driver as being involved.

CS4 Clone Tool NOT Multithreading and CS4 Slow on i7 965 Processor

I noticed for the first time that the new clone tool in CS4 is not using all of my processors on my new i7 965XE processor. In fact it uses only one processor and this makes it run incredibly slow. I have also noticed that CS4 in general is rather sluggish on this hardware which is supposedly one of the most powerful processors available. I am running the i7 965XE with 8GB of Ram and still find Photoshop rather slow. I would expect it to be super snappy on this hardware, perhaps I need to optimise settings somehow, does anyone have any suggestions or is CS4 not equipped to properly address the i7 processors yet???
Any help appreciated.
My version of CS4 is 11.0

Mike, could you take a moment to reread your original post?
"CS4 Clone Tool NOT Multithreading"
"In fact it uses only one processor and this makes it run incredibly slow."
Those are not observations and represent two direct conclusions, both of which are incorrect. The first conclusion is that the clone tool is not threaded for multiple processors (it is). The second conclusion is that the lack of threading is what makes the clone tool run slow on your system (almost certainly not the case).
Implied in your statements is a third conclusion: that using more processors makes things faster (rarely true). That is a common enough fallacy that I felt the need to offer a more detailed explanation to help you and other readers understand more about the issues involved. I tried to keep that explanation short and simple.
I gave you an alternate hypothesis (small clone area) that could have explained your observation, since you didn't provide enough details for us to rule that out.
I also gave you more information about what is going on under the hood to help you understand why you observed what you did on processor usage.
Then I pointed you to existing topics that offer a much more likely explanation for the slowdown you are seeing.
If you had described with the clone tool slowdown without the incorrect conclusions and without phrasing most of your post as accusations, you probably would have gotten useful help from other users more quickly. Even my first instinct was to ignore your post, but it sounded like you were confused, a bit angry, and needed some help.
I am sorry you read things into my post that I did not intend. I'm simply trying to help you understand what you observed, and find a solution to the problem you described.

Flash 9.0r45 causing slowdowns?

I seem to be experiencing a problem when using Flash content
on my Mac (specs below) upon upgrading to Flash Player 9.0r45.
After viewing two or three pieces, my computer slows to a crawl;
for example, windows and menus take an incredibly long time to
draw, and my dock zooming is choppy. When I first experienced the
problem (not knowing what may have been causing it), I went to my
Activity Viewer to see if an app/process was misbehaving, and I
found that WindowServer was taking anywhere from 70 to 90 per cent
of my CPU. It wasn't until yesterday that I discovered this
slowdown seemed to occur after viewing Flash content. Logging out
fixes the slowdown issue, until the next time it happens, of
course.
I've since downgraded to 9.0r28, hoping that will solve the
problem for now, but I'm hoping that some tech genius at Adobe is
able to figure out what's going on and is able to fix this problem
in the next release. I'm currently using a Power Mac G4, upgraded
to dual 1.2 GHz processors (PowerPC 7447). My system has 640
megabytes of RAM, and has ample free hard drive space. I'm
currently running Mac OS X 10.4.9 (8P135) and Safari 2.0.4
(419.3).

Just a little update: downgrading to 9.0r28 has done nothing
to solve the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any
older versions to see if they would work any better.

Strange - severe WindowServer slowdowns after Safari use

I've run across this really strange problem only in the past few days after years of flawless Safari performance. My symptom is apparently that WindowServer (which controls drawing to all windows onscreen and offscreen in OS X) starts taking inordinate time for even simple graphics operations after certain conditions occur in Safari. The condition seems to be permanent until I log out or restart, at which time performance returns to normal.
I first noticed this problem after starting to view TV show episodes at nbc.com (Heroes, if that makes a difference). After a few minutes, or as little as one minute, the video framerate would reduce considerably and the system as a whole became less responsive. In some cases it feels "jerky", similarly to times of heavy pageouts. However, the condition is not associated with low memory and doesn't recover after a period of time. Graphics operations such as scrolling or moving a window, or even just typing text as I am doing now (I'm currently experiencing the symptom) cause WindowServer processor usage to spike inordinately. I can't see what WindowServer is doing with its processor time since, because it is owned by the "windowserver" user, I can't sample it using Activity Monitor.
At first, since the NBC site uses Flash and Javascript heavily, I thought that it perhaps was a problem with a beta version of Flash. I had been using version 9.0.20.0 and reverted to 9.0.16.0, but the problem still occurs. It's possible that an even earlier version, such as 8.0 might do better. I didn't test Javascript because the NBC site doesn't work with it turned off and there's no way to revert to an "earlier version" of Javascript.
However, I then noticed that seemingly the same symptom occurred two other times under different circumstances - once at cbs.com (which uses Real video) and once, strangely enough, while downloading a RAR file. The server misrepresented the MIME type of the RAR as a .txt file and, since I had it downloading from a background tab, I didn't realize that it was loading 17 MB worth of text into the Safari window instead of downloading to the Desktop. I switched to that tab and tried to stop the download around 11 MB, whereupon Safari stopped responding and the whole system bogged down until the file (and an AVI file downloading properly) finished downloading. That's when I noticed the WindowServer slowdown I am now experiencing.
If anyone has any advice about this (or can kick Apple or Adobe or Real or somebody into doing something about this) I'd appreciate it. I'm going to try reapplying the 10.4.8 combo updater and see what happens. Also, below I've reproduced the graphics sections of two Xbench tests representing "before" and "after" scenarios. You can see that OpenGL remains mostly unaffected, but Quartz graphics really take a hit.
Aaron
---------------Before---------------
Quartz Graphics Test 71.11
-- Line 53.54 3.56 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
-- Rectangle 57.66 17.22 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
-- Circle 59.59 4.86 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
-- Bezier 74.86 1.89 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
-- Text 240.66 15.05 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 78.53
-- Spinning Squares 78.53 99.62 frames/sec
User Interface Test 51.48
-- Elements 51.48 236.26 refresh/sec
---------------After---------------
Quartz Graphics Test 11.40
-- Line 13.47 896.68 lines/sec [50% alpha]
-- Rectangle 5.38 1.61 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
-- Circle 8.41 685.90 circles/sec [50% alpha]
-- Bezier 35.71 900.71 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
-- Text 31.72 1.98 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 75.95
-- Spinning Squares 75.95 96.34 frames/sec
User Interface Test 4.79
-- Elements 4.79 22.00 refresh/sec
Quicksilver 2001 Mac OS X (10.4.8) GigaDesigns 1.8x2, 1.5 GB RAM, Radeon 8500

Well, well, well. Don't I feel stupid. Guess I fell into the common scenario where the person experiencing the problem assumes it's because of anything but himself. The problem had been very reproducible with NBC, and I still don't understand how anything Safari does could affect WindowServer like I was seeing, but the problem did not reoccur with a clean user account (after restarting - the "corrupt" WindowServer seemed to affect all users the same). So I went back to my normal user and used Onyx to clean out ALL caches (App, Font, System, Kernel) for all users and, for good measure, had it delete "Temporary and obsolete items". Restarted again and now the problem doesn't occur even in my normal account, at least for now. I never found these freeware maintenance apps to be much use, since they never actively repair problems and most of their functions are placebos anyway (running the OS's maintenance scripts, prebinding, etc.). I never ran into corrupt caches before (if that's what it was this time) and so I didn't find that useful either. There's always a first time.
Thanks for your help.
Aaron

Aperture slowdown

Well I am still on latest snow leopard and wait for updates to Aperture and OS Lion beofre I will upgrade to Lion. But til the latest upgrades to SL, I do have some slowdowns with Aperture 3.1.3 and some other Apple Apps, if Aperture is running.
First I saw that, was as I refined a slideshow within Aperture which was created half a year before. I know, exporting that slideshow to a movie took about four to five minutes at full hd resolution. But now, it took around 25 minutes with the same export settings. I tried that with few other slideshows too and with the same slowdown.
Today, I had iTunes made a photosync with iPad from iPhoto 9.1.5, which was running too and beside I opend Aperture, which took about 10 minutes to start. My Aperture library has only 25k of images in it and it takes normally only few seconds to start.
Has anyone the same behavior in case of Aperture and SL 10.6.8?

Hello Frank,
Mac Pro 2006, 2.66 GHz, 10 GB RAM, Aperture library resides on 2 TB disk, 1.2 TB free
I did a check of activity monitor but could not see any unusable like huge processor values on any process - Aperture runs most times within 100% - means one core is used or four cores are used by 25%.
I did this morning too a disk check but not faults overall. I do have a newer ATI 5770 graphics card installed, so this can not be the solution. What I changed in the last 6 weeks was, I installed new some apps from the mac app store like Apple Motion 5, iMovie 11, iPhoto 11 and Compressor 4. So my thought was first, a newer app could be the reason and thats why I checked activity monitor. On the other hand, I do have build in two 2 TB drives this year (one for my Aperture libraries, one for Time Machine Backup) and do have since 2007, as I bought this Mac, a 750 GB drive and my boot disk, the original 250 GB drive, in there. And because a drive can fail, I checked the disks too.
Ah, my boot disk is as over the past years never filled up with more than 50 %, today I have 140 GB free and 110 GB is in use. That didn't change this year. And because my libaries reside on the second drive, that can not be the reason.

How do I speed up my computer? Version OS X 10.8.5 Processor 2.66 GHZ Memory 2GB 20 inch 2009

How do I speed up my computer? Version OS X 10.8.5 Processor 2.66 GHZ Memory 2GB 20 inch 2009

The 2 places I’ve seen recommended most to buy reliable RAM are below. I have purchased RAM several times from Other World Computing and have always been very satisfied with the product and service. They also have on-line instructions on how to replace the RAM. OWC has also tested RAM above what Apple states is the minimum. I now have 6GB installed on a machine supposedly limited to 4 GB.
Crucial
Other World Computing
Activity Monitor – Monitor Performance Problems
Performance Guide
Why is my computer slow
Why your Mac runs slower than it should
Things you can do to resolve slowdowns see post by Kappy

CS4 Installation Causing Extreme Slowdowns

I recently installed CS4 on my computer (HP xw4300 workstation). In the process I somehow lost my user profile and am experiencing extreme slowdowns when trying to open any of the CS4 programs. I actually talked to HP customer service and they said there is no reason (memory capability, etc...) as to why this should be happening. Any suggestions?

Hi Ellie,
To fix your problem, I would suggest adding memory to your system. Your processor seems to be O.K. (but nothing more), so investing a tiny $25 into memory would be a good solution possibly.
Add another GB of RAM or so. If that is too expensive, get this RAM.
If you are not experienced in computer maintenance, make sure you follow the simple steps of installing more memory. It really isn't that hard. And unless you go rubbing your feet around on the carpet and come back to shock your computer, you're not going to wreck it. Just remember to ground yourself once in a while on the power supply (the box inside the computer case).
I don't know how much you know, so here's some simple steps:
Turn your computer off
Unplug it (fat black cord)
Wait about 30 seconds (the motherboard holds power for a little while)
Open the case (the 'box' that makes the noise when it's on)
Ground yourself to the power supply by touching the metal housing (again, this is the *usually silver box inside the case - around where you pulled the cable from the back)
Find the slots for the memory (make sure there is no dust in the slots!)
Open the clasps and put the sticks in evenly with equal amount of pressure on both sides until they snap in
Close the case
Plug it in
Turn it on
Once the PC is on and you're logged on, press the windows key (on the bottom - between the 'Ctrl' and 'Alt' keys) and the 'Pause/Break' button at the same time. This will bring up your system properties. Depending on how much RAM you bought, it should show something like 1.5GB or 2.5GB or a large number of MB's (2444MB for example). If it still shows 512MB, you either didn't install the chips correctly or the system isn't recognizing them.
Hope this helps.
-Michael D

Computer speed slowdown

This is a general question about the speed of my computer. I have noticed a progressive slowdown in being able to switch between applications, the speed of applications in general, and an increase in the level of my frustration with my Powerbook 15" G4. Processor is a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 with 256 MB RAM and 10 GB free of hard drive space (total capacity is about 75 MB).
I am unsure of what variables have changed, but I have had this computer for about 2 years now and I don't remember ever having this degree of slowness. It is so bad and I am wasting soooo much time just waiting and waiting and waiting, that I am considering upgrading to a newer computer. I noticed that the computer slows down terribly when running iPhoto 6 and/or iWeb, but there seems to be a slowness even when not running those apps. What can I do to investigate or remedy the problem? Do I need to sign up at the local Apple Genius bar for assistance?

Oh, I forgot you had them posted in your original post, my bad.
Here is the memory from Apple:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/2.RSLID?nclm= EFBC43B8http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/2.RSLID?nclm= EFBC43B8
512 mb is $150
1 gb is $300
Here is the memory from Crucial:
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Apple%2BPowerBook&m fr=Apple&tabid=AM&model=PowerBookG4+1.5GHz+%2815-inchDisplay%29&submit=Go
512 mb is $69.91
1 gb is $205.63
I would suggest you get at least a 512. I know apple doesn't have a 256, but Crucial does. Don't get it, get more than that, it will be worth it.
You would be fine with an additional 512, or depending on what kind of applications you use, you could get an additional 1 gig. I think you will be happy with the 512 mb extra, to give you 768 mb.
The reason I think it is Ram that is slowing you down is because having a few programs open uses more ram, and when it doesn't have enough, it uses the VM on the hard drive. When you tab between programs, it has to keep pulling it out of the VM on the hard drive, and thus makes it slow switching, and not snappy. With a 1.5 G4, it should definitely be snappy.
Let me know if you have any more questions!
Mike

Dual 450mhz Gigabit Ethernet - Processor drops out.

Hi,
I have a G4 Gigabit Ethernet with dual 450mhz processors, and I am having a problem where one of my processors will drop out all together. This has happened sporadically over the past year and a half that I've owned the machine, but it has happened three times in the past month. This doesn't seem like a good sign to me. When the processor fails - according to the activity monitor it's always the same processor - the only way one can tell is by the slowdown of the machine; there are no app crashes, freezes or anything out of the ordinary. A simple shutdown and boot up is all that is needed to get the processor back online, and once that has happened the processor keeps going. I can continuously run this Mac for days without incident. Before this, months.
Has anybody else run into this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Malcolm

Thank you Japamac and Rodney,
When my friend, who is a Apple certified tech, comes around later this week to scope things out with my Mac, I'll have him check the heat sink and thermal compound.
When the processor dropped out the first two times, it did seem to coincide with an application crashing, the same app both times. However with the latest three episodes, there was no crash and that application was not running - The app I suspected I use almost on a daily basis and it has crashed a couple of times without coinciding with the processor dropping out - so I'm moving away from that theory. As I said previously, when the processor fails, the only way you know for sure is by the degradation of performance. I have also had one freeze up quite recently (maybe the third in a year in a half) but I don't know how you could determine if it was related to this problem, though. There was no information in hardware diagnostics.
Again thank you for your replies.

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