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Tips for improving Mac performance?

  • 20-02-2007 11:06am
    #1
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, I've been using my Mac Mini (10.4.7, 1.25gigs RAM, 1.83 Intel Core Duo) here at work for a while now and I've noticed it getting more and more sluggish of late, I was wondering if anyone has tips for improving its performance. For example, right now I'm using Mail, Firefox, Xcode, Terminal, Skype and iTunes, none of which i'd consider very memory intensive, and the little Activity Monitor pie chart says I only have about a hundred megs of free RAM. Dashboard and Exposé are very slow to respond and even the volume controls often take a couple of seconds to respond. Any tips/links for getting rid of some of this sluggishness? Thanks!


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  • #2
    eirlink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭eirlink


    cornbb wrote:
    Hey guys, I've been using my Mac Mini (10.4.7, 1.25gigs RAM, 1.83 Intel Core Duo) here at work for a while now and I've noticed it getting more and more sluggish of late, I was wondering if anyone has tips for improving its performance. For example, right now I'm using Mail, Firefox, Xcode, Terminal, Skype and iTunes, none of which i'd consider very memory intensive, and the little Activity Monitor pie chart says I only have about a hundred megs of free RAM. Dashboard and Exposé are very slow to respond and even the volume controls often take a couple of seconds to respond. Any tips/links for getting rid of some of this sluggishness? Thanks!

    download ONYX ( google) and run it. Also you could go into disk utiity and repair permissions on the macintosh HD.
    http://www.titanium.free.fr/dl/OnyX.dmg


  • #3
    Sad Professor
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    The sluggishness is probably more due to the processor than the RAM, so is they're anything in Activity monitor that's hogging the cpu?

    Recently my imac was getting very slow and refusing to spin down the hd or sleep. I discovered a background HP manager app for my scanner that was using up to 10% of the CPU and 2GB of virtual memory. And the scanner wasn't even connected.


  • #4
    eirlink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭eirlink


    Sad Professor wrote:
    The sluggishness is probably more due to the processor than the RAM, so is they're anything in Activity monitor that's hogging the cpu?

    Recently my imac was getting very slow and refusing to spin down the hd or sleep. I discovered a background HP manager app for my scanner that was using up to 10% of the CPU and 2GB of virtual memory. And the scanner wasn't even connected.

    thanks for that sad professor...just checked my activity monitor and my HP manager was pulling 7.5 % from CPU...scanner not connected either!! tks again


  • #5
    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    I'd recommend upgrading to 2GB RAM.


  • #6
    Nature Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Nature Boy


    I found this app yesterday:

    http://www.macdentro.com/MacDentro/Home.html

    It runs the system maintainence tasks that mac would usually run at night, but it also clears chaches, repairs permissions etc. Haven't really used it yet though!


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  • #7
    uncle_sam_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭uncle_sam_ie


    Nature Boy wrote:
    I found this app yesterday:

    http://www.macdentro.com/MacDentro/Home.html

    It runs the system maintainence tasks that mac would usually run at night, but it also clears chaches, repairs permissions etc. Haven't really used it yet though!
    Onxy does all that too and more.


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