Hi Ronni, Thanks for your help. I checked the Activity monitor and nothing seemed to be taking too big a percentage.
Nothing is taking more than 0.8% of CPU. The largest items of Real Memory are 148 MB for Earth Desk Core, 109 MB for iClip, 70MB for Entourage and 30 MB for URL Manager. But I trashed the .plist file anyway and restarted. I know this depends on the applications set to launch on boot but it took one minute 35 secs to launch everything. It still took 35 secs for a 1 gig USB drive to show up and 45 secs for my Firewire 250 gig ext disk to show up. That is an improvement but still much longer than under ordinary old Leopard. I quit all those applications and it made no difference to the time it takes for the ext drives to show up. Thanks Lloyd > > Hi Lloyd, > > If you Mac is running slow since Snow Leopard installation, check in Activity > Viewer to see if "Core Audiod" is using a heap of available RAM. > If so, delete this preference file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ > com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist > > Then Restart your Mac and it should run a fast responsive Snow Leopard. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 03/01/2010, at 2:58 PM, Lloyd White wrote: > >> >> I hear people say that Snow Leopard should be faster but since upgrading >> everything is v e r y slow. >> E.g. it takes 50 sec and up to 90 secs for a CD or a USB thumb drive to show >> up on the screen. >> >> My 250 gig ext hard drive takes more like 2 minutes to appear. >> Is there some way of speeding this up? Clean the spark plugs? Lube and oil >> change? >> >> Done the normal things using Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner to no avail. >> >> Lloyd (whose life is slipping away waiting). -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
