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OSX slowed by too many apps?
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This is a borderline OSX question and application question...
In terms of finder and launching speed, does it matter how many and what type of applications you install on your machine? im noticing generally slower operations on my 10.3.2 system in the last few weeks...perhaps because I have a TON of applications installed. The way I think of it, it shouldnt matter how many apps are installed...just how many are active. Is this faulty logic? What dont I know about here?
Thanks,
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The number of apps installed on the disk should not affect performance, except if some of them have background processes running even if the app is not running (like anti-virus for example).
Try to do a 'top' in terminal and see if a process is eating CPU cycles...
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The number of apps installed can sort of have an effect in one case: OSX relies heavily on using some hard drive space as virtual memory. So if you're running really low on drive space, OSX could have some slowdowns/oddities/etc.
Generally, though, performance is affected by how many apps are running. How fast is your Mac? How much RAM do you have? Which apps do you generally have running at the same time?
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How fast is your Mac? How much RAM do you have? Which apps do you generally have running at the same time? [/B]
1ghz G4, 768MB, 80G HD (with about 50 free).
Generally Im using iphoto, photoshop, safari, itunes, possibly one or two other depending on what Im doing. I have a lot of small apps that are directed at specific tasks, ThermographX, prefling, launchbar etc.
Could any of those be a culprit?
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Try what pat++ suggested. (Actually in 10.3.x you can use Activity Monitor rather than running 'top' in the terminal) and see if something pops out at you. I've had a couple weird instances where either WindowServer or MirrorAgent (for iDisk) was hogging huge amounts (45-55%)of CPU for apparently no reason (no window redraws occurring, no iDisk syncing in progress) Had to log out and back in to make them stop acting up.
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yeah copy out the top listing from the terminal in here
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