mcdermd said:
No, I understand what you are saying I have a B/W G3. The issue isn't just game play but anytime you are doing heavy CPU tasks as well. It can slow CPU and GPU intensive tasks down by half.
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No, I understand what you are saying I have a B/W G3. The issue isn't just game play but anytime you are doing heavy CPU tasks as well. It can slow CPU and GPU intensive tasks down by half.
rdrr said:You are assuming that they are counting the updates on base10 system. They could be using hexadecimal versioning... you know .8 .9 .a .b .c ... .f
Base10 doesn't have two decimal points. They can count to 10.3.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or more if they wanted to.
I may have spoken too soon about the memory leak from 10.3.6 being gone. I'm at 1.2 GB in use with most of it being inactive memory.
However, I've noticed that the virtual memory hit percentage is 95 per cent--a record, that. It used to be anywhere from 15 to 75 percent by this time.
However, I've noticed that the virtual memory hit percentage is 95 per cent--a record, that. It used to be anywhere from 15 to 75 percent by this time.
mcdermd said:Which is why I have a PB G4 1.25ghz/1.25gb and a dual G4 500mhz/1gb for the heavier lifting. The B&W is basically a just a web machine for me (and the Classic II is just a networked toy
Ah, yup I understand that. I think I would have stuck to OS9 on the B/W though. Much snappier.
mail MUCH slower since update
Ok, haven't had time to go through all 11 pages so far (read about half of them). Mail is working incredibly slow! Only one bounce but then take about 20 seconds before ANYTHING appears! I mean even clicking on the mail icon in the dock doesn't bring up the mail menu items.
Any suggestions or other people with this problem? And yes, I did repair permissions.
Other things to note, web pages load slower in both safari and camino. I feel like I am running 10.1.5 - this sucks!
Ok, haven't had time to go through all 11 pages so far (read about half of them). Mail is working incredibly slow! Only one bounce but then take about 20 seconds before ANYTHING appears! I mean even clicking on the mail icon in the dock doesn't bring up the mail menu items.
Any suggestions or other people with this problem? And yes, I did repair permissions.
Other things to note, web pages load slower in both safari and camino. I feel like I am running 10.1.5 - this sucks!
macnews said:
yeah i get a simialr problem on my 1.33 12" powerbook. time to get more memory? (i have 256)
Need some real help!
RAM isn't the answer for me. I have 1.5 GB on a Dual 1 Ghz G4 and Mail takes 1-2 Minutes! I'm not kidding, I counted. Let me explain what I did and see out there if anyone can help. Started Repairing permisions, Installed "delta" update, restarted then Repaired again(nothing was out of whack by the way). Mail and Omniweb take an excruciatingly long time to load so I shut down and ran a little Diskwarrior. Restarted. same thing. Ran the full blown Cocktail ritual including all caches and prebinding. Restarted again. No change. I downloaded the combo update and installed that with all the regular restarts and repairs. no change. Then I reinstalled the Mail.app with Pacifist from the install CD's and repaired permissions again. No freakin' change. I gave up and figuered that Mail and onmi must share similar frameworks that were bugged out in the new update. If anyone can add anything I'm all ears. If this sound a little snippy its cause It has sucked a good 3 hours out of my day. Thanks!
RAM isn't the answer for me. I have 1.5 GB on a Dual 1 Ghz G4 and Mail takes 1-2 Minutes! I'm not kidding, I counted. Let me explain what I did and see out there if anyone can help. Started Repairing permisions, Installed "delta" update, restarted then Repaired again(nothing was out of whack by the way). Mail and Omniweb take an excruciatingly long time to load so I shut down and ran a little Diskwarrior. Restarted. same thing. Ran the full blown Cocktail ritual including all caches and prebinding. Restarted again. No change. I downloaded the combo update and installed that with all the regular restarts and repairs. no change. Then I reinstalled the Mail.app with Pacifist from the install CD's and repaired permissions again. No freakin' change. I gave up and figuered that Mail and onmi must share similar frameworks that were bugged out in the new update. If anyone can add anything I'm all ears. If this sound a little snippy its cause It has sucked a good 3 hours out of my day. Thanks!
I think something might be goofed up in ~/Library/Mail. Your mailboxes are located there, as are various other Mail-specific files. Try quitting Mail, moving that folder elsewhere, and relaunching Mail. If it now comes up immediately, something inside there is messed up. Some trial and error will eventually find the offending file(s) - I don't know of any other good method.symptom said:
Doing this update has definately made my heart skip a few beats! The installer seemed to go successfully and I pressed Restart at the end of it when it asked me to. But the system hung on a grey screen with a rotating circle (that kept rotating) so I gave it 10 minutes but it still didn't restart.
In the end I powered it down by holding the power button until it turned off and then switched it on again. That time it took ages to start up and take me to the login screen.
But it seems to have updated OK, I get 10.3.7 from About This Mac. And it's restarting and booting properly. But it hanging made me feel a bit scared!
In the end I powered it down by holding the power button until it turned off and then switched it on again. That time it took ages to start up and take me to the login screen.
But it seems to have updated OK, I get 10.3.7 from About This Mac. And it's restarting and booting properly. But it hanging made me feel a bit scared!
Sometimes these issues are caused by corrupt fonts, of all things. If you think about it, it's logical, as fonts are used by practically all Mac OS X applications. Any applications that use a corrupt font will experience slowdowns loading that font.symptom said:
This install wrought havock for me. I followed all the install advice but on reboot my system was fried. It took hours of booting from external drives and performing every kind of repair to get it working again.
Then this morning, 36 hours after install, my 2 external FW HDs which had been working OK since the update (and were unconnected during upgrade) suddenly refused to mount through several reboots. They are back again now, thank God. No idea why!
This is unacceptable from Apple - I've wasted almost 2 working days on this. They should get these updates sorted, other wise they are causing more problems than they are curing.
Then this morning, 36 hours after install, my 2 external FW HDs which had been working OK since the update (and were unconnected during upgrade) suddenly refused to mount through several reboots. They are back again now, thank God. No idea why!
This is unacceptable from Apple - I've wasted almost 2 working days on this. They should get these updates sorted, other wise they are causing more problems than they are curing.
Noiseboy said:
ProTools 6.4 LE works fine with my 17" PB and an M-box plus a 002.
Haven't got 6.7 yet.
Logic, Reason, Reaktor and numerous plug-ins all reporting for duty.
Well this is a new one for me as I've never had issues with any updates post Jaguar.
Granted I'm running on an old sawtooth but since updating 20 minutes ago I've had Safari quit on me four times, plus all apps take twice as long to open. Suppose my lucks run out, no biggie though, perhaps its time to use a cache cleaning app.
Granted I'm running on an old sawtooth but since updating 20 minutes ago I've had Safari quit on me four times, plus all apps take twice as long to open. Suppose my lucks run out, no biggie though, perhaps its time to use a cache cleaning app.
MacBandit said:
Yes, I do actually. The cube that is wired into the network has an iPod plugged in. Why do you ask?
All is good now with the manual addresses on my network. (regarding slow login times)
I suppose it is an external firewire drive.
macnews said:
I don't know what camino is, but on my iMac G5 1.8 Ghz, web pages load slowly now in Safari as well. Everything else seems OK I think, but nothing is "snappier" like others have noted. In fact, I think everything is just a tad slower. But I have no real proof of that. And my machine is about as vanilla as it gets. They only two 3rd Party apps I have are Office and Stuffit.
I'm sorry for those of you who have had problems. 10.3.7 has given me a noticeable performance increase over the last update on my G4 Powerbook 1.25ghz/1.25gb RAM - so much so, that I'm actually kind of NERVOUS about upgrading to 10.3.8 when it comes, because I think I'm pretty wholly satisfied with this upgrade.
Granted, I haven't had any real problems in the past, but this is definitely a vast improvement.
Granted, I haven't had any real problems in the past, but this is definitely a vast improvement.