start-up very slow

start-up very slow ...... how to make it faster

my powerbook spec:
PB12" / 256MB / 40GB / 10.2.6

oo_mac_oo said:

start-up very slow ...... how to make it faster

my powerbook spec:
PB12" / 256MB / 40GB / 10.2.6

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Is this a new occurance or just something you've noted? OS X really just doesn't start-up very quickly (at least it never has on my machine). I usually only occasionally fully shut-down my computer anyway - most of the time I just let it sleep.

Yeah os X starts up pretty slow on my machine also, but I do shut it down usually once a day or once every couple of days that way the maintenance scripts for shutdown and startup can run.

I believe, one of the reasons it takes longer to boot, is depended on the amount of memory you have. I think on boot up, there are several system checks being made. The more memory, the longer the system check.

rman said:

I believe, one of the reasons it takes longer to boot, is depended on the amount of memory you have. I think on boot up, there are several system checks being made. The more memory, the longer the system check.

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Yes, interestingly enough its seems to take longer to start-up since I upgraded to 640 MB.

Here is a nice little page about how to speed things up.. as it says it is a work in progress and was just updated a couple of days ago

http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html