On 5/15/08 4:51 PM, in article
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[email protected], "Diane Ross"
Hi Diane,
Lots of reports of sluggish behavior. Open the Activity Monitor and select
CPU. It might give you clue to what is happening. I see you have a G4 with
1.5 GB RAM. Depending on what you have open, you could be swapping out
virtual memory.
I don't know what "swapping out virtual memory" means. I've pasted info
below:
1. Disk utility HD
2. Activity Monitor main window below
3. ... overall percentages of memory in use
Perhaps you can tell something from there.
In addition, the free space available on your HD could play a factor.
According to Disk utility HD info Available : 19.7 GB out of 55.8 GB
Put the combination of a sluggish Entourage together with other applications
you are running then factor in the physical aspects like RAM and drive space
it's hard to know exactly what is causing the slow down.
Does 'drive space' mean HD capacity?
Thanks, Rafael
Disk utility HD info
Mount Point : / Capacity : 55.8 GB
Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Available : 19.7 GB
Owners Enabled : Yes Used : 36.0 GB
Number of Folders : 101,244 Number of Files : 473,944
overall percentages of memory in use or idle at the bottom of the Activity
Monitor window.
CPU
% User 20.00 Green Threads 251
% System 1.00 Red Processes 69
% Nice 0.00 Blue
% Idle 79.00 Black
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Activity Monitor Window
Process Name % CPU #Threads Real Memory Virtual Memory
mdimport 0.00 3 3.06 MB 43.23 MB
Help Viewer 0.00 6 18.95 MB 146.71 MB
System Profiler 0.00 5 21.37 MB 133.88 MB
Finder 0.00 4 14.36 MB 159.46 MB
Stickies 0.00 2 11.84 MB 150.91 MB
Activity Monitor 6.10 3 15.20 MB 147.74 MB
Image Capture Extension 0.00 3 10.52 MB 117.24 MB
iPhoto 0.00 4 37.91 MB 160.68 MB
iCal 0.00 4 31.40 MB 146.59 MB
AppleModemOnHold 0.00 3 3.42 MB 122.12 MB
Dictionary 0.00 5 30.66 MB 154.73 MB
Safari 0.00 11 152.33 MB 474.22 MB
AppleSpell 0.00 1 4.86 MB 37.75 MB
TextEdit 0.00 5 26.32 MB 143.39 MB
QuickTime Player 0.00 4 32.84 MB 158.79 MB
Word 2.30 8 76.77 MB 307.63 MB
Alerts Daemon 0.00 3 9.86 MB 127.05 MB
Entourage 1.20 11 52.64 MB 251.38 MB
HP Scheduler 0.00 2 9.43 MB 116.98 MB
HP IO Classic Proxy 0.00 2 6.60 MB 115.00 MB
HP IO Classic Proxy 2 0.20 2 6.55 MB 114.68 MB
Print Daemon 0.00 1 3.33 MB 27.11 MB
HP Event Handler 0.00 4 8.80 MB 119.54 MB
LifeBoatAnchor 0.00 2 11.72 MB 124.50 MB
Database Daemon 0.00 3 22.07 MB 128.71 MB
TruBlueEnvironme 0.10 14 36.93 MB 1.10 GB
UniversalAccessApp 1.30 2 11.50 MB 122.75 MB
iTunes Helper 0.00 3 7.14 MB 113.38 MB
iCalAlarmScheduler 0.00 2 9.95 MB 116.71 MB
SystemUIServer 0.00 4 37.08 MB 160.42 MB
Dock 0.00 3 9.72 MB 131.01 MB
aped 0.00 1 3.32 MB 27.29 MB
pbs 0.00 2 5.88 MB 58.65 MB
loginwindow 0.00 4 22.46 MB 135.60 MB
ATSServer 0.00 2 3.80 MB 81.92 MB