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I have a 12'' powerbook 1.33 GHz powerPC G4 768 MB, mac os x 10.3.9.....
lately my computer has been running pretty slow. i installed a program to monitor my CPU and ram usage. my ram rarely exceeds 400 MB of usage and seems not to be the problem but my CPU is commonly at 100%..... please advise as what to do to speed up or whatever has to be done. thank you |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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What program did you install?
You can monitor CPU and memory usage with the included Activity Monitor application (at /Applications/Utilities). Open Activity Monitor to find the name of the process that is using up so much of your CPU. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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I shot the sherrif.
Join Date: May 2004
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If you just installed Tiger, it's probably indexing your HD.
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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But then he wouldn't be running 10.3.9 any more, would he?
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Join Date: May 2005
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havent installed tiger yet although i plan on doing it soon.....
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I shot the sherrif.
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just had to point out i didn't bother reading beyond the title, didn't you.  |
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Me? Never. Just tried to be informative ...
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Join Date: May 2005
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i have 15 gig availible, it doesnt seem to be single processes taking up the CPU space i think it might just be too slow altogether
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
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I doubt that. I have the exact same PowerBook (12" 1.3 GHz G4) and everything is generally speedy. Of course, speed is objective, but I really doubt you'd be experiencing general slowness unless there's a culprit here.
Have you rebooted recently? Have you gone through our FAQ and performed the maintenance steps? (disk and permissions repairs, removing caches) The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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I shot the sherrif.
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more importantly, what processes are using up more than 10% of the cpu? if you can list them here that would help.
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