Improve performance?

Aspect · 11 Mar 2008 at 11:16

My MBP just doesnt feel as quick as it used to. Is there anything i can do to speed it up?

Im guessing it may be down to free hard drive space, but i was wondering if there was anything else to look out for.

I understand that macs auto defrag in the background, but apps just dont load as quick as they used to. Maybe something to do with 10.5.2?

Will_3rd · 11 Mar 2008 at 11:40

There are a couple out there including Onyx, Cocktail, and Monolingual/Delocalizer which you run to carry out maintenance.

How much RAM you running at the moment anyway?

Aspect · 11 Mar 2008 at 11:45

Will_3rd said:
There are a couple out there including Onyx, Cocktail, and Monolingual/Delocalizer which you run to carry out maintenance.

How much RAM you running at the moment anyway?

It's got 2 gig in.

Deleted member 651465 · 11 Mar 2008 at 11:49

If you have less than 50% hard drive space then OS X will start choking.

You can clear out caches (~Macintosh HD, Library, Cache OR ~Library, Cache) and run a command in Terminal;

sudo periodic daily

It will ask for a password, enter it and press return.

Aspect · 11 Mar 2008 at 12:19

EVH said:
If you have less than 50% hard drive space then OS X will start choking.

You can clear out caches (~Macintosh HD, Library, Cache OR ~Library, Cache) and run a command in Terminal;

sudo periodic daily

It will ask for a password, enter it and press return.

I think i have around 1/3 free hard drive space. I'll have a look what i can clear off tonight.

PS. Run what command in terminal?

Slogan · 11 Mar 2008 at 12:24

Aspect said:
PS. Run what command in terminal?

sudo periodic daily

Aspect · 11 Mar 2008 at 12:46

Slogan said:
sudo periodic daily

Oh i see now

iSam · 11 Mar 2008 at 12:59

Try Onyx, that will clear some space.

Or a RAM update.

TheVoice · 11 Mar 2008 at 21:44

iDefrag? Seen it used on a couple of my friends Macs and it does make a noticeable difference, especially to start-up times.

pc-modd · 11 Mar 2008 at 21:48

EVH said:
If you have less than 50% hard drive space then OS X will start choking.

Seriously?? :eek:

KPeh · 11 Mar 2008 at 22:01

EVH said:
If you have less than 50% hard drive space then OS X will start choking.

Why so?

iSam · 11 Mar 2008 at 22:08

TheVoice said:
iDefrag? Seen it used on a couple of my friends Macs and it does make a noticeable difference, especially to start-up times.

Doesn't OS X automatically defrag?

J1234 · 11 Mar 2008 at 22:12

iSam said:
Doesn't OS X automatically defrag?

Correct.

Because OS X will be running on HSF+ it does it automatically.

Edit: straight from the horses mouth.

artaxerxes · 11 Mar 2008 at 22:28

onyx, xslimmer and for that freshly installed feeling back up to a firewire drive, then boot from that, and then copy it back onto the first drive, defrag for free

MagicBoy · 11 Mar 2008 at 23:20

Check the fragmentation. My MBP was being horribly slow a couple of weeks ago and I was getting the spinning ball of doom a lot. Had a fresh install of Leopard on a new hard drive around launch day, so around 6 months old. Being a lazy git I'd filled the drive up and there was around a 1GB (of 250GB!) free.

A friend suggested iDefrag ... and it was showing very very heavily fragmented. Copied a load of stuff off (100Gb) and ran a full defrag which took 14 hours. I had to install Tiger onto an external drive as iDefrag needs to unmount the main disk.

Now all is good.

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