[t_hah]

My PowerBook G4 runs just fine, but lately everything takes forever to load. When i click on Safari it takes like 10 bounces to open sometimes. Other small apps like a "Notes" take forever as well. There are not big apps. They used to open very quickly.

I also have pauses, which I do not understand. Sometimes when I direct Safari to a site it would take forever for it to start working again. It just sits there and it is kind of locked up. At that time I cannot do anything with Safari, but other apps seem to be OK.

Word does the same thing. When press Apple+P, to print it sometimes takes about 30 seconds to being up the print window.

All of this pretty much starte happening after 10.2.6. I ran DiskWarrior on my disk, I do prebinding quite often.

Any ideas what can be going on here?

Thank you,


t

[cambro]

Hmmm.
Something must be screwy...10.2.6 works very snappily on my Ghz Tibook.

I assume you have tried restarting? Also, launch the terminal and run top to see if some process is sucking down CPUs. One time in 10.2.5 I had the Finder just start gobbling cycles for no apparent reason, which caused a system slow down (found this out by top). Relaunching the finder fixed the problem.

You could also try deleting Safari (and it's prefs) and reinstalling a fresh download.

And of course there is the perennial fix permissions and trash prefs. suggestions...

Good luck.

[moreno]

Are you using Mac OS ten?

[t_hah]

I have not tried the repair permissions thing before....


But I gave it a try so I will see if this helps. I really hope so, because my computer used to be really nice and kind of quick...it is just really annoying to wait for a print window for half a minute or for a page to start loading...

If you guys have any other ideas, please share...I will try almost anything.


Thanks,


t

[KidRed]

So the title should've read "My PowerBook is dog slow...any ideas?"

[t_hah]

Originally posted by KidRed:
So the title should've read "My PowerBook is dog slow...any ideas?"

Picky, picky, picky....
I think the focus of this is OSX and not my PowerBook. As I mentioned above things were fine until I updated to 10.2.6. I am not saying that 10.2.6 is what made the system slow, but that is when things started happening.

By the way as cambro suggested I repaired permissions, but that did not seem to fix my problem. I still have the same things happening. Word took about 20 seconds of bouncing, just waiting for the Word splash screen to appear. It only then started loading...

Really weird. Any other ideas?


Thanks,


t

[Person Man]

Originally posted by t_hah:

Really weird. Any other ideas?

Well, a couple things you can try...

1. Make a new user (so that there will be no old Preference files), and see if it is just as slow. If it is not, then maybe you need to delete some preference files from your regular user folder.

2. As a last resort, back everything up and reinstall the OS (a pain in the neck, I know, but once I was having some problems that the usual stuff didn't fix, so I reinstalled, and things were fine since), and see if that doesn't make things better (You can always do an Archive and Install, but I would just back it all up and do a clean install to ensure you get new preference files).

Let us know if either of the above helps.

[himself]

How much free space is left on your startup volume? If it is too low (<1GB), virtual memory will slow things down quite a bit, especially when working in memory hungry apps and when starting up applications.

Also, do you have any font utilities installed on your machine? I have a problem with Font Reserve that started after I updated to 10.2.6 where after every restart/login, my machine (667 TiBook) would slow to an impossibly unresponsive crawl for 15-20 minutes while font reserve did it's thing. Your problem could be something similar.

[t_hah]

I do not have any font utilities. Also, I have about 8GB free on my startup drive. That should be OK.

I have tried logging out and logging in as a different user. If I log in as root everything seems fine, but then again, root loads very minimal everything.

I might try using something like Jaguar Cache Cleaner and see if that helps..but if anyone has experienced such thing before and has some solution, please share.

Thanks,

t

Originally posted by Person Man:
Well, a couple things you can try...

1. Make a new user (so that there will be no old Preference files), and see if it is just as slow. If it is not, then maybe you need to delete some preference files from your regular user folder.

2. As a last resort, back everything up and reinstall the OS (a pain in the neck, I know, but once I was having some problems that the usual stuff didn't fix, so I reinstalled, and things were fine since), and see if that doesn't make things better (You can always do an Archive and Install, but I would just back it all up and do a clean install to ensure you get new preference files).

Let us know if either of the above helps.

[midwinter]

Create a new user account and log in that way. If root is faster, I'll bet that this will be, too. Something in your user account seems to be corrupted. Even on my iBook 500 applications don't take that long to load.

If the new user is also slow, let us know.

Cheers
Scott

[milhouse]

I'd suggest deleting your caches (JCC works well) and running maintenance scripts too. You should also repair permissions as they seem to be implicated is some "slowdowns".

I've heard that running disc utility from the OS X install CD works when the native app fails.

good luck

[SpeedRacer]

Did you crash and/or quit the 10.2.6 update before it completed? Any problems you've noticed during installation of any other apps?

If the issue is that the apps are taking a long time to launch then it sounds a prebinding issue. If an OS or app update drops before it completes this process it can really slow your machine down. To re-bind your Mac, type the following at the Terminal:

sudo update_prebinding -root /

HTH

Speed