On 8/14/02 1:09 PM, Peter C.S. Adams deftly typed out: > 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*?
I thought I'd see if I could reproduce what you are seeing, so I opened 10 message windows while running top in a Terminal window. Entourage spiked to 20% while opening and rendering the message windows and then dropped back down to it's usual usage (less than 6% when just sitting there reading a message). 600 MHz iBook with 256MB RAM, 70.5 MB database (I archive and prune regularly). -Remo Del Bello -- Cyber bumper sticker: Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. -- 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/>
