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- Your Mac's Specs
- G4 + Mac Pro 8-core 6Gb
Leopard was spending far too much time on beachballs on my 2008 Mac Pro 2.8GHz 8-core, 6BGb, with 100Gb free on the boot disk. Things are a lot worse since being Snowed-up. Booting used to be < 1 min, and ready for use.
Now on 10.6.7, arriving at the lovely blue screen gets the beachball spinning before the before menubar appears. Long wait to be used. Always 100Gb free.
1. iTunes - in days of G3, I've never known a machine that can't play a tune. I get more than 50% pausing, like a scratched CD. That is frustrating. I use it constantly
2. Finder does tend to spend a good time on 50-99%. Dock (WindowServer) gets stuck frozen (maginfied 100% at full size). From 2 seconds to several minutes to respond.
3. Safari seems better since resetting. I wish the Top Sites preview fetcher could be disabled. How about the option, Apple? Flash can be disabled by disabling plug-ins. I spend too long switching this on/off per site.
The boot disk makes a lot of grinding noise, now that iTunes is silent. I'm sure it was the same noise when iTunes was always working, when I never heard it. Verifying the disk comes up trumps all green. Repairing permissions is regular for me, with no benefit.
I ain't reinstalling the OS. I want to address in within first. The only CPU usage anywhere close to 80% is when using Handbrake and running SQL Server 2008 in VMWare WinXP. The beachballs prevent me from clicking for 10 minutes+ when the max CPU activity is 2%. In this state, when I get a second to click on a non-running dock item, it does bounce for 10, 20, 30 minutes. Sometimes no bounce - just ignoring me.
My standby G4 gives no beachballs, ever; used as a file server. When busy transferring files, and screen sharing, at 100% CPU, nothing stalls. It didn't have to reboot for 8 months at a stretch
Now on 10.6.7, arriving at the lovely blue screen gets the beachball spinning before the before menubar appears. Long wait to be used. Always 100Gb free.
1. iTunes - in days of G3, I've never known a machine that can't play a tune. I get more than 50% pausing, like a scratched CD. That is frustrating. I use it constantly
2. Finder does tend to spend a good time on 50-99%. Dock (WindowServer) gets stuck frozen (maginfied 100% at full size). From 2 seconds to several minutes to respond.
3. Safari seems better since resetting. I wish the Top Sites preview fetcher could be disabled. How about the option, Apple? Flash can be disabled by disabling plug-ins. I spend too long switching this on/off per site.
The boot disk makes a lot of grinding noise, now that iTunes is silent. I'm sure it was the same noise when iTunes was always working, when I never heard it. Verifying the disk comes up trumps all green. Repairing permissions is regular for me, with no benefit.
I ain't reinstalling the OS. I want to address in within first. The only CPU usage anywhere close to 80% is when using Handbrake and running SQL Server 2008 in VMWare WinXP. The beachballs prevent me from clicking for 10 minutes+ when the max CPU activity is 2%. In this state, when I get a second to click on a non-running dock item, it does bounce for 10, 20, 30 minutes. Sometimes no bounce - just ignoring me.
My standby G4 gives no beachballs, ever; used as a file server. When busy transferring files, and screen sharing, at 100% CPU, nothing stalls. It didn't have to reboot for 8 months at a stretch