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I don't know what it is but my G5 has been getting slow lately and it has been slowing the internet too. Age of Myth closes online when someone attacks me and I was dling stuff off of aan email in mail and the computer slowed to a crawl like my old Mac that stopped every 5 minutes and you'd have to wait 1 minnute for it to come back. Its a dual 1.8 G5, 512 Ram and ati radeon 9600. Maybe I need more Ram but It wasn't like this when I first got it. I had a 120 gig hard drive and there's still "63.73 GB" left. I thought I might need to defrag so I got a defragger through...legal means and it said it didn't need to be defragged. And it didn't seem like it needed it by the charts. I think I might have spyware or something that is eating up my memory. I don't know though. Suggestions?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by Kool_Aid_Man:
I don't know what it is but my G5 has been getting slow lately and it has been slowing the internet too.
Darn, so it is YOU who slows down the intarweb. I suspected that ! 
-t
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No spyware. Verify the disk in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilitiy.app. Use Activity monitor in that folder to see what is using the CPU, you may have a third party program using resources. Just general maintenance stuff, you don't have any specifics about the problem, so the only thing other than maintenance would be "Backup, Reformat, Reinstall, Restore"....I don't even know if the G5 has PRAM ;-).
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Check the 'top 'command in the terminal - to make sure that one program that maybe running in the backround is suck - causing your cpu to be pegged. Tell tale sign - if your fan is running.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Definitely run Activity Monitor or top to see what your processor utilization looked like. RAM can rarely, spontaneously, go bad after years of trouble-free use. Such was the case with my iBook and a 256MB generic DIMM. When it failed, my iBook slowed to a crawl, and top showed at most 5% processor utilization. If that's what it's showing for you, immediately suspect the RAM.
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