Spaces Lag

My iMac 24" 2.4 is smooth as silk, though intensive use it will lag. I had used 6 spaces, now only 4 and it is smooth.

 

How many spaces do you actually have set up? I didn't see anything about that in your post. If you have 4 spaces x 3 or 4 apps each, that's 12-16 apps open...I would think that could certainly cause a little bit of lag in spaces, even though you're using less than half your memory...

I have 10 gigs of RAM in my system and I regularly keep at least 4 of my 6 spaces populated with apps, including Firefox (x2), Lightroom and Photoshop - usually 1 or 2 terminal windows and Garageband and Gearbox (music) software as well.

My memory consumption tends to stay around 3-5 gigs, depending how hard I'm pushing Photoshop and/or Lightroom. Spaces is *always* fast and responsive.

-Bryan

 

I have a 4 or 5 apps in separate spaces each, and it's silky smooth, with OWC ram.

I noticed window dragging was consistently choppy for my first couple of days. I had installed 10.5.2 from the combo installer. Numerous restarts and the graphics drivers update didn't help, either. Anyway, I left it alone while I got on with some work. I can't be 100 percent sure about this, but a couple of days later I was running thru the System Profiler info for some reason, and when I got to the Graphics Card section there seemed a slight delay and more info popped up. Since then window dragging and everything else has been spot on. I wondered if the graphics driver could have not been loaded properly somehow, and it was using something generic until System Profiler loaded it? Easy to try, anyways.

 

um...reformatting a RAID array with SOFTWARE RAID will definitely slow you down some.

and there is nothing wrong with your RAM.

relax.

 

ok, two things....

check and see if Spotlight is still indexing. if you have a lot of content or fresh drives of content, it will take a while, and might slow you down a little.

second thing:

your lag is tiny. my first-gen mac pro is nowhere near that fast with that many windows open using expose, much less spaces and expose.

if your video is an example of the worst it gets for you, then i think you'll manage!

 

in all seriousness.. what lag? i saw the video. i saw a .25 second pause.. that's not normal? damn
my macbook has much longer paust than that.

 

hes 2nd video shows it well but its only a 5 second pause...