At 6:48 PM -0500 11/24/2009, carter foreman wrote:
>G4 dual 1ghz  1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11.

Fully updated, Safari 4.0.4 also?
Spotlight indexing enabled?

>Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too 
>much cpu time.
>So i turned them off.

Dashboard can be problematic.  It always runs, using both memory and 
cpu resources.  Once a widget is loaded, it's always running too.

Try temporarily disabling Dashboard altogether using a tool like OnyX.

>Safari keeps quiting and it takes way too much CPU time too.
>Apps quit too frequently and memory seems to be leaking.

Any kernel panics (whole OS crashes)?

What does Activity Monitor say are the top cpu pigs?

What do the app crash logs say?   (If you don't know how to read 
them, please take a bunch, zip 'em up and email them to me directly. 
I'll take a quick look.   Please DO NOT post them into the group).

In Safari, do you have the page previews enabled?  do you have 
fraudulent site checking enabled?  Those two "features" greatly slow 
Safari and make it chew a LOT of cpu time.

>Right now i am running MAIL and Activity Monitor and that is all, 
>aside from Finder.
>I have 16.36MB Free memory and 917 MB active 461MB inactive, 140MB wired
>
>How is this possible?

You gots something else running.

Try disabling Dashboard then re-check.

- Dan.
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