On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Johnson < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:46 AM, richardsan wrote: > > > the latest security update 'forced' a reboot and the computer started up > in the SL land, previously from lion. so after a couple days, that > environment turned in to the sluggish, tired old thing that it is already > and i wanted to get back to 10.6.x . > > I haven't noticed and serious slowdonw on any of my 10.7 machines. The > most common reason Macs 'get sluggish' immediately after a re-install or > something like that is because the Spotlight indexing process keeps getting > interrupted or the spotlight database is foo. > > Go to Activity Monitor and see what processes are chewing up RAM or CPU. > If you constantly see 'mdworker' at the top, it's spotlight. Fire up > Terminal and do the following. Replace /path_to_volume with /Volumes/<name > of external drive> if you have external drives attached or just / to stop > it on your boot volume. > > sudo mdutil -i off -a > sudo mdutil -E -a > sudo mdutil -i on / > > <Samuel L. Jackson Voice> And leave it the fuck alone </> > > This lets Spotlight do it's thing on a clean, unchanging file system, and > once it's done rebuilding all it's indices, the mdworker process should > definitely stop being a cpu hog. > > Do you have, perchance a Samsung printer? There's a bigass memory leak in > their current driver in 10.7. You'll see the printtool process gobbling all > the ram it can find. < > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3329492?start=0&tstart=0> > > Otherwise, again look to Activity monitor to see what's a RAM hog and > what's a CPU hog. General sluggishness accompanied by lotsa disk activity > means you have either insufficient RAM for your usage or theres a memory > leak somewhere. > > One thing that'll bring your box to it's knees and beg for mercy is trying > to run OS X and a Windows VM in not enough memory. If you're trying to run > a Windows VM in a box with 4 gigs or less, particularly if you set up the > Windows in the VM with the typically lowball memory allocation they give > (512 megs for Windows 7...REALLY VirtualBox? You expect me to believe that > shit will work?) you set yourself up for diskthrash hell. > > > a few weeks ago, i had complaints about safari web content and safari hogging ram on this machine. by about 2/3's...i think there is something screwed up there(10.7.x). web content was way over a gig i logged into a dummy account, and although not really using it like i normally do, the ram usage is way down. web content is currently using about 300 MB real men. and safari is about 200 MB. also, since i slid off important data from the 10.6.x partition and erased it..it has freed up about 50% of the disk space on the drive. there are only HP printers here and i haven't been in windows. > > knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an oxymoron. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. 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/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
