Hmmm Mac OS X recommends 10% of the drive space is left free from virtual memory... Open activity monitor and see what the paging activity is?
Sent from my iPhone Please note: my mac.com email is moving to [email protected], change your address book now. On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Spun off from <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp2341676p2348714.html> > > Two computers: > > A) Mac Mini, circa 1995, 1 GB RAM, 1.42 GHz G4 PowerPC 7447A. > Benchmark represented by MacTracker: 783. > > B) MacBook Pro, 1996, 2 GB RAM, 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo T2600 (Yonah). > Benchmark represented by MacTracker: 2635. > > Each computer runs Chandler desktop 1.0.3 RC1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. > Repositories should be close to identical; both were imported a few > hours > ago from a backup.chex comprising over 48,000 records. > > We might expect Chandler to perform better on the newer, better > specified > Intel MacBook Pro. > > In fact: Chandler is at least TEN TIMES AS FAST on the older low spec > PowerPC Mac Mini! > > Measurements based on launch and quit times. > > Measurements aside, Chandler *feels* so much better on the PowerPC. > > I'd like to know why my Intel MacBook Pro makes Chandler so > horrendously > slow. The issue might be software related, but I look first at the > disk: > > > Mount Point : / > Capacity : 92.8 GB (99,686,268,928 Bytes) > Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) > Available : 3.6 GB (3,894,751,232 Bytes) > Owners Enabled : Yes > Used : 89.2 GB (95,791,517,696 Bytes) > Number of Folders : 366,114 > Number of Files : 2,192,277 > > > Not a great deal of free space, true, but all free space was > recently made > contiguous (using iDefrag). > > Any ideas? > > Does Berkeley DB or Python require more than my MacBook Pro can offer? > > TIA > Graham > > References, mostly relating to the Intel: > > <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12633> > <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12672> > <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12725> > <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12726> > > Relating to the PowerPC: > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/Memory.png > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/Statistics.png > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/all%2Bprocesses%252C%2BChandler%2Bnot%2Bresponding.png > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/all%2Bprocesses%252C%2BChandler%2Bresponding.png > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/macmini01-open-files-and-ports.txt > macmini01-open-files-and-ports.txt > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n2348910/macmini01-transcript.txt > macmini01-transcript.txt > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Performance%3A-comparing-Intel-and-PowerPC-versions-of-Chandler-desktop-1.0.3-RC1-on-Mac-OS-X-10.5.6-tp2348910p2348910.html > Sent from the Chandler users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > unsubscribe here: > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users > Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
