Making my iMac G5 Faster?

[Kalinatek]

hey guys!

its been some time since i last posted something here .. anyway ... i feel that my baby is getting slow .. so what can i do to make it faster ? any files to delete (maybe cache or temp files if there are any?) i delete safari's cache and history everyday but i still feel its slower than before.. it only has about 30 GB of Software+Mp3s and like 130GB of empty HD space .. and i've got 1GB Ram.


thanks

 

[SmurfBoxMasta]

A) Normal housekeeping. Use something like Onyx, CockTail, Macjanitor, or Macoroni for deleting system caches, temp files, old log files ect ect.. Also repair permissions with Disk Utility

B) Directory maintenance: Use Diskwarrior or TechToolPro or Drive Genius

C) Clone your HD to an external drive, erase & reformat the iMac's HD, then clone everything back to it. Use SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner. This wil defrag your HD completely, and if you're running Tiger, run Spotlight afterwards to re-index all your files.

D) Max Da Ram

 

[cr2sh]

D) Max Da Ram

I just spent $300 on a 2GB chip and maxed my 2.1GHz G5 out.

This little bump has really made a difference. I'm constantly opening 400mb tiff files and before it'd take a cool 5 minutes to get it open and now its there as soon as photoshop loads.

Expensive... but there isn't going to be a better way of getting it done right.

 

[mkrishnan]

Other things you can do in terms of speed....

- Have you picked up more running widgets over this time? See if you can rationalize.

- You might try re-indexing spotllight. Sometimes the index gets a little wiggy and slows things down.

 

[Kalinatek]

i dont use any widgets ...

thanks Smurf and all of u guys

 

[mkrishnan]

To see whether adding RAM would help you, run Activity Monitor, and see how many pageouts you're getting, if you haven't already. If the number is >> a few thousand, then it will probably help you to have more RAM, based on your usage profile.