soooo sloooow.

[Kobushi]

I've got a G4 powermac here that's giving me some issues lately. I can't put my finger on exactly when it started, but I know I didn't install anything that would have caused it (unless it was an Apple update).

The problem: It's doing certain tasks insanely slow. I first noticed when I tried to put it to sleep, it stares at me for about a minute before it dozes off. Now when I go into system prefs and click on sharing, it takes a good 5 minutes before it comes up. The other prefs and apps seems to act normal. I'm running 10.3.9 and I've tried just a good old fashioned reboot to no avail. Any thoughts?

 

[grapes911]

Try repairing permissions and running the periodic scripts.

 

[Kobushi]

Try repairing permissions and running the periodic scripts.

Let's see that's a disk utility thing, right? Ok yeah, I see it. What's this periodic scripts?

 

[grapes911]

This is the guide about the scripts:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Maintenance_Scripts

Here is the guide about permissions (in case you need extra info):
http://guides.macrumors.com/Repairing_Permissions

 

[gekko513]

How much hard drive space is left on the drive that the OS resides on? You should have at least 8GB for best performance.

 

[Kobushi]

How much hard drive space is left on the drive that the OS resides on? You should have at least 8GB for best performance.

The OS is on the 80GB stock drive and it's only 50% full. I keep all my junk on a secondary drive. I thought maybe more RAM as I'm also running on the 512MB stock...but that shouldn't affect these 2 particulars should it? I can still run multiple apps without any problems. Notwithstanding, I plan to get a gig when I can afford it.

Thanks for the script info, I shall check it out.

 

[gekko513]

You might also like to look at the Activity Monitor utility and see what's sucking up the resources.

 

[Kobushi]

You might also like to look at the Activity Monitor utility and see what's sucking up the resources.

Weird. nothing really uses any CPU power. That makes sense as I can still function normally in other apps while I'm waiting for system prefs. However, system prefs does go red and "hang"....I wonder if it's looking for something that isn't there......