Improve performance?

[Aspect]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

PS. Run what command in terminal?

sudo periodic daily

 

[Aspect]

sudo periodic daily

Oh i see now

 

[iSam]

Try Onyx, that will clear some space.

Or a RAM update.

 

[TheVoice]

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]

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

Seriously??

 

[KPeh]

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

Why so?

 

[iSam]

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]

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]

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]

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.