Thus spake Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 8/14/2002 3:13 PM: > Well, I'm on a G3 myself - an old 350 CPU one - and I don't find Entourage > slow. My database currently is about 250 MB in size, as well. But I have 768 > MB RAM - that's the secret, You need 512 MB RAM to fell really comfortable > at those sizes, and more is better.
I'm on a 500 MB iBook with a 260 MB database and 640 MB RAM, and I find it very slow. But I recognize that it is my workflow. I tend to have a lot of apps open at once and a lot of windows open at once. For instance, I might open 20 emails at once so I can read all the messages in a thread one after another. That means heavy lifting for OS X. What I find bizarre is the way Entourage will suck up all available CPU time, even when it's not ostensibly doing anything. Even when I am just reading a message offline, Entourage will take 35-50% of the CPU's time. I've watched this with top and saw it hit 50.8%, although it is regularly 35-40%. I just can't imagine what it is doing. In the background, working offline, it will still take up 10-20%, leaving 30-40% idle. Bring Entourage to the foreground and it rarely leaves *any* CPU idle time. And it's not swapping. Top reports zero pageouts. It's not just Entourage, either. Word routinely wants 10-20% of the CPU time while it's in the background, supposedly doing nothing. What are they *doing*? -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
