[Phrogman]

I recently installed 10.3.3 and have noticed two things: The hard drive constantly "thrashes" as though its in use, even when I'm not doing anything that would require the drive to be accessed. (i.e. surfing the web etc...) I've also noticed that applications take about 3 times longer to launch than they used to.

Here are my system stats and what I've done so far:

Dual 1ghz MDD with 768mb RAM and original 80gb hard drive.

I have run disk utility...it reports drive is OK
Reset permissions
I ran TOP and it not showing any significant pageouts I think?

processes: 53 total, 4 running, 49 sleeping... 134 threads 09:50:53
Load Avg: 0.97, 0.76, 0.48 CPU usage: 34.3% user, 4.6% sys, 61.1% idle
SharedLibs: num = 110, resident = 25.7M code, 3.02M data, 7.39M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 3732, resident = 72.8M + 12.2M private, 64.2M shared
PhysMem: 65.2M wired, 87.3M active, 114M inactive, 267M used, 500M free
VM: 4.39G + 78.2M 17266(0) pageins, 60(0) pageouts


Any suggestions??? Thanks

[JellyBeen]

Run Disk Warrior and restart. What was your % Directory fragmentation? Greater than 10% ?. Has your disk trashing stopped since running DW? Let us know.

[SMacTech]

Run sudo fs_usage in terminal to see what is accessing the file system.

[Phrogman]

Originally posted by SMacTech:
Run sudo fs_usage in terminal to see what is accessing the file system.

When I'm idle and the hard drive is "thrashing" this is what I get over and over:

1:31:09 lstat 2675908609-1554723729.cache 0.000009 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2675908609-1554723729.cache 0.000006 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2715493124-3554440082.cache 0.000009 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2715493124-3554440082.cache 0.000006 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2880983558-1883490462.cache 0.000009 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2880983558-1883490462.cache 0.000005 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2965495812-0688346268.cache 0.000009 perl
11:31:09 lstat 2965495812-0688346268.cache 0.000006 perl
11:31:09 lstat 3046848265-0544998293.cache 0.000008 perl
11:31:09 lstat 3046848265-0544998293.cache 0.000006 perl

Is this normal stuff??

[Kristoff]

nope...I see no perl in my fs_usage. What have you installed? Are you running some perl scripts in your Apache? (I have mine off in favor of JBoss/Jetty on 443)

[Phrogman]

Originally posted by Kristoff:
nope...I see no perl in my fs_usage. What have you installed? Are you running some perl scripts in your Apache? (I have mine off in favor of JBoss/Jetty on 443)

I haven't installed anything out of the ordinary....to be honest, I don't even know what a perl is.

The only things I have set to run in the background are:

Microsoft Database Daemon
Meteorologist
USBOverdrivehelper
LaunchBar
Epson Scanner Monitor

All have been used for over a year prior to this happening