I use the disk fragmenter that comes with Drive 10. Works fine for me and it is quite straightforward
==Tamer > From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:35:36 -0800 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Entourage X Hogs CPU > > Peter, this definitely isn't right; it isn't a common experience. Have you > tried closing various Entourage <windows> rather than the entire app? I've > seen cases where, for some reason, a particular window was causing me the > problem (IIRC often an HTML message). Closing that window freed up the CPU. > > Also, I'd wonder about your disk space, and disk fragmentation. Do you have > LOTS of free space (> 1 GB) on your startup disk partition? I've seen > everything slow down when swap file space was getting scarce, as can happen > after days of uptime. And try running a defrag program on your disks. I see > a marked speed improvement and diminished CPU time every time I defrag my > disks. It takes forever, but the results are worth it. (Plus Optimizer is > part of the Disk Warrior package, and slow; SpeedDisk is part of Norton, and > fast, but you have to tweak it by defining a special OS X profile if you > want efficient file placement. Not for the squeamish; it took me quite a > while to figure it out even after reading a post about it on OSXFAQ.) > > > On or near 1/22/2003 6:15 PM, Peter C.S. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > observed: > >> I've simply learned to live with Entourage using all available CPU time. >> After a while, I get fed up and quit. When I restart Entourage, it's fine >> again, then gradually gets slower and slower until I have to quit again. >> (This usually takes days, but occasionally only hours of exceptionally heavy >> use.) > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
