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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2008Computing excessively slow
Hi everyone, I have a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16Ghz. I have noticed that several times a day, the hard drive starts spinning excessively and everything on the computer grinds to a crawl. Programmes take for ever to boot up and web pages take ages to appear. I thought something could be indexing the system. I currently have Spotlight and Launchbar installed but can't find out where to set up how often they index the system. About a year ago, I also installed Google Desktop. I uninstalled it but could something from that have been left on my system? Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. Danny > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. Once Spotlight is done creating the initial index, it won't spontaneously reindex your entire drive. You can force it to if you like, but the general behavior is that it catches notifications that a file has changed and (almost) instantly refreshes the metadata for that file. Can't speak to the behavior of Launchbar and Google Desktop, but depending on how you uninstalled it it's certainly possible for bits of it to be left behind. Heavy disk use often is accompanied by noticeable CPU utilization, so if this activity usually takes more than several seconds you could try opening a terminal and typing 'top'. By default that'll show you a list of processes in reverse launch order, and you might notice that there's something in that list that's either a high load or a highly fluctuating load. > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > excessively and everything on the computer grinds to a crawl. Programmes > take for ever to boot up and web pages take ages to appear. How much spare space do you have on the drive? Make sure you have enough for the virtual memory (and sleep) to do its thing. >> Hi everyone, >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > How much spare space do you have on the drive? Make sure you have > enough for the virtual memory (and sleep) to do its thing. Sounds like its your browser. I've read of this and experienced it myself. It starts sucking up resources the longer its on and it doesn't return them. Turn off the browser periodically and avoid having a lot of tabs open. If it gets too bad rebooting seems to be the only fix. > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. How much RAM do you have installed? What is the capacity of the startup hard drive? How much hard drive space is free on the startup hard drive? What applications are running when this happens?  SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. If you must contact me through e-mail, let me know when you send email to this address so that your email doesn't get eaten by my SPAM filter. JR > Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. Run Activity Monitor (in your Utilities folder), and when everything is grinding to a halt, look at its process list to see which one is eating up all the CPU cycles. |
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