Powerbook g4 completely sluggish
I have no clue what swith my system but for the past few hours its been very sluggish. i tried rebooting, and shutting down the computer and as soon as it starts it's very slow, the whole boot process takes a very logn time and logging in is a battle too. i tried running Onyx to tweak my system but it's still very bad. what should I do?i have 1.25 gigs of ram so i dont get what the problem is
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i see its gradually getting faster and more usable, but still. what could have caused this? just the fact that it slowed down my boot up process is peculiar to me even after shutting it down and rebooting
and i still don't understand how it can start from the initial start up even before OSX is loaded. and now be back to normal
While you're in there, you can check the SMART status of the drive, if it supports it. It will give some early warning of failure in many cases.
Or it could be sunspots.
Or actually, you've got a solid 5GB of VM there... what's your free space like? When it gets low, that can cause things to come to a crawl, *and* on restart, cause some things not to get properly saved to disk or flushed out of queue.
Try getting SMARTreporter from version tracker. It is a free app which reports diagnostics which are maintained by the HD. If the drive is somehow operating out of spec this should flag it.
Also, you could try running Xbench and see if something is remarkably slower than the typical PB like yours.
i'll download SMARTreporter and see what happens
also you can see per this thread - http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=52131
that this problem was evident not too long ago, but has gradually gotten worse, and i think it has to do with the hard drive. what else could it possibly be