OS 10.4 - iBook G4 running extremely slow

petenet · petenet #1 (**permalink**)

03-12-2006, 07:01 PM

Good evening, all.

I am new to Macs - been using an iBook for the last three months.

Anyhow, my iBook, over the last few days, has been going extremely slow - opening applications takes longer than it did a week back. It seems sluggish - if that makes sense. When I reboot it, it takes a long time for it load up.

My system specs:
G4 1.42
1GB Ram
100 GB HDD

Is there something I can do/run/check to see what is causing this?

Thanks in advance!

- Pete

MacsWork · MacsWork #2 (**permalink**)

03-12-2006, 08:19 PM

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What's loading at startup?

/Library/StartupItems/
/System/Library/StartupItems/
System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items

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Any apps doing logging of any kind? Does this happen when the internet is unplugged? Are you automounting network drives?

petenet · petenet #3 (**permalink**)

03-12-2006, 08:24 PM

Thanks for the reply!

in /library/startupitems, I've got one folder:
Nleac

in /system/library/startupitems:

Apache
AppleShare
Appservices
Authserver
Crashreporter
Disks
Fibrechannel
IFCStart
IPServices
Metadata
NetworkTime
NFS
NIS
Printing Services
RemotedesktopAgent
SNMP

And in system prefs, accounts

LCCDaemon

Quote:

Any apps doing logging of any kind? Does this happen when the internet is unplugged? Are you automounting network drives

No logging that I know of - it doesn't matter if I am online or not - I do mount a network share, but manually, it's not needed that often.

Thanks!

PowerBookG4 · PowerBookG4 #4 (**permalink**)

03-12-2006, 08:31 PM

Did you repair permissions?

petenet · petenet #5 (**permalink**)

03-12-2006, 10:16 PM

Yeah, I tried that, but no luck.

Any other ideas?

Thank!

Aptmunich · Aptmunich #6 (**permalink**)

03-13-2006, 02:29 AM

Have you run cron jobs?
If not download a tool like OnyX (Versiontracker.com) and run the maintenance scripts to clear out some old logs etc.

petenet #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 13, 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 81 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD	03-12-2006, 07:01 PM Good evening, all. I am new to Macs - been using an iBook for the last three months. Anyhow, my iBook, over the last few days, has been going extremely slow - opening applications takes longer than it did a week back. It seems sluggish - if that makes sense. When I reboot it, it takes a long time for it load up. My system specs: G4 1.42 1GB Ram 100 GB HDD Is there something I can do/run/check to see what is causing this? Thanks in advance! - Pete Last edited by petenet; 03-12-2006 at 07:07 PM.
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Member Since: May 22, 2005 Location: Closer than you think. Posts: 2,074 Mac Specs: Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3	03-12-2006, 08:19 PM * What's loading at startup? /Library/StartupItems/ /System/Library/StartupItems/ System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items * Any apps doing logging of any kind? Does this happen when the internet is unplugged? Are you automounting network drives?
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Member Since: Jan 13, 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 81 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD	03-12-2006, 10:16 PM Yeah, I tried that, but no luck. Any other ideas? Thank!
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