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Been getting a lot of spinning beachballs lately
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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First off, I'm running 10.3.9 on a G3 powerbook with 384 meg of RAM. Lately, my system's been getting bogged down really easily. For example, right now, I have one safari tab open, mail open with the window closed, and limewire open. MenuMeters is reporting 167 meg of RAM free, but all but about 20 meg of it is "inactive." (I only vaguely know what that means. When I go to open a new tab in safari, the beachball will spin for a good 20 seconds before it'll do anything. Now granted, with my hardware I'm not expecting anything great, but I've always had at least average performance. Right now, it's veering toward unusable.
Is there anything I'm missing that could be causing this slowdown?
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Limewire could be bogging your system down. How much room do you have on the hard drive?
Do you run cron jobs, repair permissions, empty caches? That will help considerably. In Safari, if you haven't already, flush and deactivate the flavicon and Internet caches.
If you have autofill on for others, edit down to a reasonable amount.
If you have room on the HD, create a new user and see if the problem persists on the new profile. If it doesn't, you might consider a reinstall (or upgrade) to clean out all the detritus slowing the system down.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the problem persists even when Limewire's not running. I've tried most of the above already, except for the flavicon tip...how do I do that?
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Virginia
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Go to your Utilities folder (inside the applications folder) and start Activity Monitor. See what task is using the most CPU.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Berkeley, CA
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i'm having some problems as well, especially with apps that are left open and idle for a long time. if i have a word document left open and decide to come back to it a few hours or a day later, it just beachballs and i have no choice but to force quit. i can't speak for the other apps as i've been mostly using word these days, but it wouldn't surprise me that other apps are having similar problems. it's gotta be something with tiger.
yes, i'm running the latest version of office with all the updates.
yes, i did a clean install of tiger and are running 10.4.1.
yes, i have enough space on my hard disk.
yes, i have plenty of ram.
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