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Optimizing OS 9
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle, WA
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I have a friend who is still running OS 9 on one of his machines and complains that it's getting slower and slower. I told him I'd take a look at it, but my expertise is in OS X. Any tips on how to make OS 9 more snappy�?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Best optimization for OS 9 that I've found is installing OS X. 
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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You could defrag the drive (which is done automatically in OS X btw), remove unused extensions, make sure there's enough free HD space...that's all I've got right now, the OS 9 days were a long time ago!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Amboy Navada, Canadia.
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Clear out pref files, DiskWarrior, take out the unused extensions, disable unused features when possible, check energysaver to make sure that's correctly set for CPU cycles, run a virusscan (666/Sevendust can cause that slowdown, check the extensions folder for an extension named 666).
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I definitely saw an improvement after defragging my 8600, the first and only time I did it in the seven years it was my primary Mac. Clean installs of the OS also make things run more smoothly. Disable unnecessary extensions. Oh, and if you can afford it, get at least 256MBs of RAM (or more, depending on the number of large apps he runs) and turn off Virtual Memory. After I upgraded to my DP 2.0 and moved my 8600 to a secondary location, I installed 128MBs of RAM I had purchased for it. After installing it and turning off Virtual Memory, my 8600 appeared to run much faster.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Amboy Navada, Canadia.
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What Big Mac said. Except for the Virtual Memory thing, that's highly questionable now....back in System 7 days it was great to be able to do that (in fact, necessary). In System 8, not so much. Supposedly in MacOS 9, turning off VM was a drag on performance. OS 9 didn't use RAM very well, if you had 512mb or 768mb and weren't using it for Photoshop etc, all you could do was allocate 50mb of RAM to Simpletext etc ;-D
Agreed with the clean install thing, it's nice to get a fresh start with any OS. Not even very difficult with OS 9 to do either.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally posted by Big Mac:
turn off Virtual Memory.
I thought the general consensus was that turning on VM to give you 1 MB more than you would normally have is the best approach, because then it will use VM to load libraries (both saving memory and speeding things up) but won't do a lot of crappy swapping.
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