About twice a week I use MacJanitor. About one a month when I get up in the middle of the night (which is every night at my age - 76), I boot my G4, turn off all sleeping, close almost everytrhing and leave the G4 on for the rest of the night.
Several times on such nights, I stayed up past 3:00 AM and watched the percentage of CPU activity as displayed by MenuMeters (which is a free download). The percentages before 3:00 AM with every thing turned off would range from 2% to 5% and within 10 minutes would display from about 8% to 14% which would last for several minutes and then go back to the percentages prior to 3:00 AM. I can't state for a certainty that what I saw was indicative of anything but I am reporting what I saw. Mel --- On Sat, 4/25/09, Anne Keller-Smith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Anne Keller-Smith <[email protected]> Subject: Re: MacJanitor To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 10:16 AM On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Charles Davis wrote:MacJanitor should now be 'in the dock' for any future bootings of the system. Chuck D. Thanks, Chuck. I think the operative word is "should." My Dad had a problem where most of his dock icons disappeared (about a year ago I think) and I had to put them back from their apps in the Apps folder. I ran Macjanitor and Repair Disk and I told him to use Macjanitor regularly, but I don't think he has. You can lead your parents to the water, but you can't make them drink! Interesting that Apple hasn't automated this, but maybe we're the only morons left who turn off the puter at night. I start leaving it on when I first got my G4, but it wasn't sleeping properly at that time and the HD was spinning all night long, and I didn't realize this, I thought it was asleep when the screensaver was up, but anywhoo that is when the fan broke. It was under warranty so once fixed and I educated myself about sleep, all was fine. But I was twitchy about what the puter might be doing while I was sleeping, so have kept it off at night since then ... Anne Keller SmithDown to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 Intel iMac 2.66gHz Core 2 Duo2GB RAM, 264GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.6 mailto:[email protected]://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
