MBP 2.4GHz C2D, 2GB RAM, 10.4.10, 200GB HD - about 2 and a half weeks old now.
I connect to our Windows network (2003 Server) at work in the typical way (via SMB, etc.). This past week it's gotten dog slow when transferring/opening files, internet browsing. I've been working on a document in InDesign CS2 and it's been HELL trying to place large image files, much less browse them in the Finder.
The only major change I can think of is that I installed Windows Vista Ultimate using VMware Fusion over the weekend. When I got into work, I fired it up and did some internet work with IE, while doing a bunch of stuff in OSX (InDesign CS2, browsing the network in the Finder, Mail, iChat...basically stuff I had done with Panther and 1GB of RAM with my G4 all this time without any problems--excepting VMware of course).
Everything hung at one point. As I noticed various OSX apps dropping like flies, I shut down Vista and quit VMware Fusion. The pie chart in Activity Monitor for System Memory was out of green slices (Free space) and I had to do a hard restart. I think I was in the middle of trying to copy a handful of large files over from the network to my hard drive.
VMware was set to give Vista 1GB of RAM. It occurred to me that Spotlight may have been trying to index my work network (I don't connect all the time), so I tried to add it to the list of things not to index in Spotlight prefs. Everything hung and I had to hard restart again.
Ever since then, while at work, internet browsing is slow, browsing the network is slow (previews of images take FOREVER to load). This project I'm trying to complete requires me to work with large image files in Indesign CS2 and I've spent what feels like hours waiting.
So I'm not sure if it's Spotlight, VMware Fusion, Vista Ultimate, something else, or a combination of any of the above. I've deleted my Vista virtual machine, uninstalled VMware Fusion, unchecked everything in Spotlight preferences (tried adding the work network to the list of things not to index and no good). Restarted several times.
Activity Monitor's System Memory tab still doesn't show a lot of Free memory. Something named kernel_task is allocated over a GB of Virtual Memory. I thought this might have something to do with Vista/VMware, but it hasn't gone away.
When i'm at home, the internet speeds are fine. It's just when I'm at work.
Any ideas at all on what's going on here? I haven't had time to research the VMware forums. I was hoping if there was anything going on, deleting Vista and VMware would take care of it. But I've seen no change.
Help! I need to finish this project and transfer some large files to my work network in the next few days. Any help is appreciated.
Forgot to mention that I used the Migration Assistant when I first got this computer. Figured I would just do a clean wipe when Leopard comes out since October is so close. I realized some anomalies may have made their way over but to this extent?
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