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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #44: Processors, Networking, Optimizing and More From The Mailbag

by , 9:55 PM EST, March 20th, 2006

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Your questions, their answers! This weeks's show features John and Dave going through the mailbag, answering questions and offering insights about processors, networking, optimizing your Mac, and more. One of the best episodes yet! Plus: iChat... with TABS!

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Close Name:cwerdna Posts: 4 Joined: 28 Mar 2006
Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:39 am Subject: iMac G5 performance

Regarding the guy's commments regarding his iMac G5 performance, I think one should ask/find out what his exact scenarios are (what steps is he taking) and how long it's taking him. It would help to figure out where the bottleneck is (disk, memory bus, video hardware, etc.)

Also, he should go to System Prefs > Energy Saver > Options and turn up Performance to Highest to see if that helps.

I'd also have him go to the Unix prompt and try running top then look at the # of pageouts per second as mentioned at http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html. If his machine is paging all the time, then he doesn't have enough RAM for what he's running and doing w/his apps.


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