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My PB is becoming very sluggish
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Lately my computer will go threw slowdowns. I only have Limewire, iTunes, Safari, Yahoo Messenger, and Adium running, what gives? Once I restart it it works fin, naturally, but after a day or 2 maybe I'll open Photoshop, Adobe Reader, and after I close them, everything is just sluggish. I will have to wait close to 10 seconds for Safari to bring up the next site, I have beachballs with Expose, Safari, switching to different programs and all. What gives? Is this the need for more memory? I wouldn't think it would go threw all of this though off of 512mb Ram. Is there a utility that frees up the resources or optimizes the hard disk on a frequent basis that would help?
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17" Apple Powerbook 1.33ghz
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Have you tried running top or Activity Monitor to see if something else is running taking up processor cycles?
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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How much space is left on your drive?
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I've run into a similar problem with sluggishness on my TiBook 800 with Panther 10.3.2. Using Activity Monitor, it seems like there is a process "kass" which starts eating up CPU cycles constantly. Killing the process simply restarts it. I think it is spawned by the WindowServer.
Logging out and logging back in always fixes the problem until several days/weeks later when it comes up again.
Occasionally, I will see the problem immediately after a clean boot or restart. Again, logging out and back in fixes it.
Does anyone know what the "kass" process does?
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I should add that I also make heavy use of Adobe apps (Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) as well as Word/Excel as well as several Java and scientific apps.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally posted by _?_:
How much space is left on your drive?
46.01 gb.
I will try the Activity Monitor to see if I can isolate the problem to a specific application.
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17" Apple Powerbook 1.33ghz
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i had the same problem. I just deleted crap off my main drive and now no more beach ball.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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For a short term solution try logging out and logging back in.
Are you leaving limewire running 24/7? that app is actually known (or was known) for tremendous memory holes, that could be the cause.
Try typing top -o rprvt in a terminal window, it will list apps by their memory usage, the highest stuff being the stuff likely causing the lag.
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I did that and Safari is first followed by limewire and Adium. Safari is running the most sluggish, go figure. Maybe I need to switch back to Netscape 
I didn' t have this problem often with Netscape.
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Power Mac 2.0 with 4GB RAM
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