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I WAS the One · May 30, 2005, 07:29 AM

How much memory I need to use Tiger without problems? I have 1Gig and Tiger's running S-L-O-W! with Panther it was FASTER!!! what's going on?

Randman · May 30, 2005, 07:32 AM

How did you install? I find Tiger to be pretty good at memory management. Using 223MB right now on a mini with Safari, iTunes and Mail up and I'm copying stuff from one external to another.

I WAS the One · May 30, 2005, 07:37 AM

Erase and Install...
I have a PowerMac Dual G4 MDD @ 867Mhz. its that the problem?

andreadeca · May 30, 2005, 10:12 AM

I would say not, it IS a double processor after all, 867Mhz is not that slow, and 1Gb of ram is quite sufficient to run a bunch of apps without problems.

Also, Erase and Install is the best way to install Tiger (way cleaner than upgrade), so you got that correct.

Perhaps you have a slow hard drive? odd that 10.3 was running faster though...

orry_main · May 30, 2005, 10:18 AM

I'm using an iBook G3 800 with 384 RAM and Tiger sings along quite happily, definitely faster than Panther. I did an erase and install.

I WAS the One · May 30, 2005, 12:58 PM

well... it is slow... I also have installed 3 hard drive inside, 80g (storage) ,60g (Tiger) and a 20g (OS 9) is this the problem?

Chuckit · May 30, 2005, 01:10 PM

You have waited for Spotlight to finish indexing, right?

I WAS the One · May 30, 2005, 04:42 PM

How I know that Tiger is indexing? I don't see nothing like telling me its indexing.... what do I have to do?

orry_main · May 30, 2005, 04:44 PM

If you look at the Spotlight icon in the menubar, there will be a little dot inside the lens of the magnifying glass that will pulse it indexes. Also, if you open the Spotlight menu, it will tell you that it is indexing.

I WAS the One · May 30, 2005, 07:32 PM

Well, I'm looking at it, and I don't think is indexing at all, but I always turn it off, and then turn in on every day, maybe that's causing the problem don't you think?

analogika · May 30, 2005, 08:51 PM

Huh? How are you turning it off? And why?

Every time you turn it back on, it needs to RE-index everything - all three drives.

Just have it index once and be done with it.

andreadeca · May 31, 2005, 04:13 AM

woah, wait a minute.

Spotlight does NOT re-index every time you turn it on.
First of all, you really cannot turn spotlight off, unless you remove the drives from the list of indexed drives.
Spotlight runs in the background, always, and when you turn your mac on it does not do anything like re-indexing. It might check for new info, but that is a matter of seconds.

I doubt it is spotlight, BUT, if you want to be sure, you can "turn off " spolight by adding all your hard drives in the "privaxy" section of the spotligh configuration ("preferences" -> "spotlight" -> "privacy", and add in there your drives). Spotilight will remove any previous index it made off those drives, and will not index them.

However, keep in mind that if you want spotlight back and remove the drives from the privacy list, they WILL be re-indexed, and that might take quite a while (from 30mins to a couple of hours, depending on how much data you have and how fast your drives are).

IMHO, it is not spotlight, tho.

andrea

Millennium · May 31, 2005, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

Huh? How are you turning it off? And why?

I think the original poster is turning the computer off, not Spotlight.

I WAS the One · May 31, 2005, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Millennium

I think the original poster is turning the computer off, not Spotlight.

thanxs! that's was I really mean, sorry about my english... it is not my primary language thoug...
some times I will be mistaking words and all... sorry