Sorry about the length of the following, but I'm not sure what shouldn't be left out :)
For quite a while - I'm not sure how long, but certainly before updating 10.2.4 -> 10.2.6 - this pismo (500mhz, 640MB) has been suffering from increased sluggishness the longer it stays up. The most extreme symptom is from Keyboard Maestro, which after a few days' uptime takes around 10 seconds to bring an app to the front. The brightness and volume F-keys also start to respond slowly as well; I hit, say, F4 three times in quick succession and there's no response for a few seconds. Virtual Desktop also slows down, with the windows from the new desktop overlapping with those from the previous one. These seem to get worse at about the same rate as KM. One odd thing about the KM problem is that it doesn't seem to happen with the bundled macros, only with those I've defined myself. These are very simple ones of the "activate a specific application" type. Now, I do tend to have a lot of apps running at once, including the X11 server, but I don't think I'm seeing all the classic signs of RAM shortage: if I run vm_stat, I don't see lots of pageouts (although when KM is invoked, I _do_ see lots of vm_faults - around 12-15,000. Unfortunately I have no idea what they are..). I also haven't noticed much disk thrashing, and the Spinning Beachball of Death(tm) rarely appears. Most of the time, there's 30-60MB of free RAM, which afaik is pretty normal for OS X usage (or is it?). That being the case, swapfiles are another mystery. Before logging out and back just now, there were 6 swapfiles, the most recent created 4 days ago. Now there are still 3, even though there's 382MB free RAM. (A restart does get rid of all except one.) Disk space on the startup volume is reasonable I think - it was down to about 700MB recently, but I did some housekeeping, thinking free disk space might be a factor, and it's now around 1.3GB. I think that has improved things, though I don't really understand why; there were always a few hundred MB free, so the system wasn't running out of swapfile space. Any hints appreciated, including how to go about troubleshooting in a more systematic fashion! At the moment I'm just noodling about with various apps while watching vm_stat and Memory Usage Getter do their things.. No startlingly obvious memory leaks to be seen! TimH -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
