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Slow Octocore
If I didn’t know better I would bet the farm that my octocore (Early 2009) with 8gGB of Ram has either a virus or tons of spyware running on it. It is slow as molasses in everything it does. Discs take 30 seconds to access even though the “put discs to sleep button” is off, The computer takes 8 minutes or so to boot. changing windows is slow. Compressor is talking 2 hours on a 5 minute compress. I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and FCS 3 Q3 of last year, and was raving about the speed…now I feel like i got a bargain basement PC. How beneficial would it really be not to run Mail or Safari on the machine, and use my laptop for those apps. I have Istat installed and rarely do I see memory or processor usage approaching the top end!. By the way I’m booted to the 32bit kernal.
Any ideas?
Don WalkerJohn 3:16
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5 Replies
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Sounds like you need a fresh ERASE and install from the ground up (not a clean reinstall). Begin your backup ASAP, then start from scratch.
Kevin Monahan
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I would try:
fixing permissions
then download a free app called “cache out x”
that might really help.
if not then a format/reinst are in order.
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A good habit is to have the Activity Monitor open all the time. I reference it constantly. You can check to see if a flash page is slowing everything up, you can see if there’s memory leaks, almost anything.
If the Activity MOnitor is showing nothing, then I would assume as has been suggested here, that a ground up erase and install will be in order. I’d check out your RAM as well.
Jeremy
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FWIW – there is not spyware/viruses on the mac, but that is not to say that things don’t get messed up. Make sure you HD is okay also.
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[Michael Sacci] “there is not spyware/viruses on the mac”
you would be surprised. a number of mischevious individuals are targetting
the mac platform as well now…linux too.
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