On 7/14/01 11:39 AM, Bryan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me why E-rage sometimes slows down to a crawl? I referring
>> to the sporadic times when the cursor slows down to about half the speed of
>> my typing (and I�m not real fast). As I type this, it�s like a slug. I
>> have to pause to wait for the cursor to catch up. Very frustrating.
>> Re-starting always clears it up, but is there anything else that might be
>> causing it that can be fixed?
>
>
> You may have some process running in the background that's sucking up
> processor cycles. If that's the case, there's an app called Peek-a-Boo that
> will help you find it (see www.versiontracker.com).
>
> You may also have AppleScripts running (this often happens during Send &
> Receive All). Scripts run quickly, but 'rage can't do anything while they
> do, and if you run a script on every incoming message, that can be a lot of
> runs.
I wish it were this simple. In the past, when this has happened to me, I've
verified that no scripts were running, (I only have a couple of rules tied
to scripts and they rarely fire, but I disabled them as well) quit all
applications, restarted just Entourage and the problem persisted. It seems
that once it starts doing it, only a restart of the entire machine clears
it. I do see the temporary *normal* slowdowns when a digest is bursting or a
script is running but the problem Mac Carter was talking about is different,
it slows down the whole app and makes typing, even as slow as I am, very
frustrating and it persists until restart.
> Or you could just have a slow machine (doesn't happen to be a Performa 6400
> does it?)
It happens here on a 7600 with a 400mhz G3 upgrade and an UltraWide-SCSI
hard disk as well as on a Rev A iMac, neither of which would set speed
records but Entourage's operations are normally very zippy on each.
Jim Baskins
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