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Having system slowness issues
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
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I am having major issues recently. My system is acting very strange. Everything is much slower. I'm having most of my issues with Safari (writing this text is very choppy) and Mail. I do have PithHelmet installed. I heard this could cause a problem but I thought it was only very small. I've been running Pith since it was first released and never had this problem. Also, my other programs are slow. I only have an uptime of 2 days. After I rebooted (and reset the pram) and things seemed faster but that only lasted 1 day. I also have Macaroni running to help with the Unix maintainence. I haven't installed any new items recently except the WoW Stress Test client and I don't think that caused it. Any ideas at all what I could do to get my system running again. Here are my system specs:
Quicksilver G4 867
1.5 Gig of ram
GeForce 4 Ti (I think it was slightly damaged when I installed this (could that be it))
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Open Applications...Utilities...Activity Monitor
Is there any process/application which is constantly consuming your CPU? If so, what is it?
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AlBook G4 15", iMac 20"
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Long Beach, CA
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If there isn't any single process slowing your system down, you could have a failing hard drive. A good way to test this is close down all of your open programs except Activity Monitor (in 10.3); then start the Tech Tool Pro 4 surface scan; then look at the disk activity tab in activity monitor. A hard drive that is functioning normally should a) have no bad blocks and b) show up as a consistent speed that gradually decreases as the surface scan progresses. You should be seeing 30+MB/sec in the Activity Monitor while this is running. If you only see 2MB/sec--and it is jumping around--you have a bad hard drive. Backup whatever data you can and replace the drive.
The only other possibility is that the kernel is chewing up boatloads of processor time--all the time--even from a clean OS install. If this is true, you likely have a bad logic board. Note that I have only seen this issue twice, but it was a logic board both times. One was a Blue and White G3; the other was a G5--very different logic boards.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Canada, Planet Earth
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Tiger 10.4.8
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: New York City
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iPhone 3G 16Gb
24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac, 4GB/320GB/256MB
12" AlBook 1Ghz/768Mb/80Gb/Combo/AX
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Seattle
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Do you have .Mac Virex installed? I had problems with the background apps that it uses. They could not be turned off in the preferences.
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1.25GHz PowerBook
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