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- Your Mac's Specs
- PowerBook G4, 1ghz, 40gb HD, 768mb mem, Tiger
Running G4 at 533mhz, 768mb memory.
The machine has had an uptime of several weeks (without restart) and is becomming less responsive.
I've been use to this type of thing on Windows platform. I thought OS/X would be better.
It seems the machine is busy doing it's own thing and careless of what I want it to do. Why should it take 10 seconds of hard drive crunching just to open another tab in Opera or Firefox? In fact the hard drive crunching is almost a 24/7 thing on idle. What the heck is going on?
Any ideas why this ill-responsiveness happens/never ending hard drive crunching and is there a solution other than restarting the machine?
This sort of thing makes me think less of OS/X resource management design. I've never had problem like this running OS/2, even on a three month up-time. OS/2 runs just as efficent on a fresh start as it does with several months uptime.
The machine has had an uptime of several weeks (without restart) and is becomming less responsive.
I've been use to this type of thing on Windows platform. I thought OS/X would be better.
It seems the machine is busy doing it's own thing and careless of what I want it to do. Why should it take 10 seconds of hard drive crunching just to open another tab in Opera or Firefox? In fact the hard drive crunching is almost a 24/7 thing on idle. What the heck is going on?
Any ideas why this ill-responsiveness happens/never ending hard drive crunching and is there a solution other than restarting the machine?
This sort of thing makes me think less of OS/X resource management design. I've never had problem like this running OS/2, even on a three month up-time. OS/2 runs just as efficent on a fresh start as it does with several months uptime.