On 30/05/2009, at 8:51 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:
I'm sure that this has been addressed before but would be useful to
revisit it.
The progress indicator on my iMac at work has become very slow of
late.
Where do i start to find out why?
Hello Stuart,
A persistent progress indicator often is due to insufficient RAM.
Mac OS X uses a portion of the hard drive called the ”swap file” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap_file
to temporarily offload one or more programs you have launched with
too little free RAM. Because the hard drive reads and writes more
slowly than RAM chips, Mac OS X displays the progress indicator while
accessing the swap file, and you perceive your Mac to be sluggish.
Another possible culprit is a communications bottleneck while your Mac
is attempting to connect with the network, server.
When are you experiencing the progress indicator ... on startup,
connecting to the Network, running applications ...?
Cheers,
Ronni
17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 3GB / 800MHz / 160GB
OS X 10.5.7
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