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- Feb 28, 2005
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- Bagshot, Surrey, UK
- Your Mac's Specs
- Powerbook 17" 1.5GHz, 2GB, 160GB Momentus; iMac 24" 3.06GHz, 2GB; iPhone 2.5G 8GB; iPod 5G 60GB
I've noticed my Powerbook is slower since I upgraded to Tiger; I get the beachball a lot now, despite 1GB / 1.5MHz, and my cooling fan is running a lot more than it used to, even when nothing much is apparently running.
Top shows that DashboardC is consistently hogging 25-35% of my CPU cycles. I have a fairly well-populated Dashboard, but I'd naively assumed the applets would "sleep" when Dashboard wasn't actually showing.
Is there a way to "nice" Dashboard or otherwise tell it to chill out a little? Or do I have a rogue widget?
And what's it actually *doing* when I'm not looking at it? I don't have any widgets which are feasibly doing anything *useful* when Dashboard is hidden.
I'm getting a little tired of having a slow machine, less battery life and a constant fan whirr, just for something I use twice a day.
Thanks,
David
Top shows that DashboardC is consistently hogging 25-35% of my CPU cycles. I have a fairly well-populated Dashboard, but I'd naively assumed the applets would "sleep" when Dashboard wasn't actually showing.
Is there a way to "nice" Dashboard or otherwise tell it to chill out a little? Or do I have a rogue widget?
And what's it actually *doing* when I'm not looking at it? I don't have any widgets which are feasibly doing anything *useful* when Dashboard is hidden.
I'm getting a little tired of having a slow machine, less battery life and a constant fan whirr, just for something I use twice a day.
Thanks,
David