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renpar61 · May 30, 2004, 02:05 PM

In the past few days, my iBook G4 got awfully slow. Beachball showing up all the time, since login. It takes 3 or 4 times longer after login before I can start working. I haven't done anything special, or installed new software. The last thing I installed is the 10.3.4 update, but everything was fine and fast after the installation and for the next couple of days. Everything seems normal on Activity Viewer. Where should I start looking?

Randman · May 30, 2004, 02:15 PM

Repair permissions.

renpar61 · May 30, 2004, 02:31 PM

Done that already...what else?

Randman · May 30, 2004, 02:38 PM

That should do it.
Are you still getting them? Have you installed new ram lately?

bergy · May 30, 2004, 03:46 PM

See if any of this applies to you ...

Mac OSX Speed Troubleshooting
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html

Also ..

http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html#Anchor-38414

renpar61 · May 31, 2004, 10:07 AM

Thanks for the help!
I did a full clean up and maintenance with Onyx, deleting all caches, running the scripts, repair permission etc.
Now everything is back to normal!

Randman · May 31, 2004, 10:37 AM

Maintain is a good freeware for cron jobs. And there's always Cocktail...