On Jun 7, 2004, at 8:46 AM, Marc van Gemert wrote:
My workstation which is a G4 933 w/ 768MB RAM isn't as fast as I had hoped. Using only Photoshop CS is slower than running Photoshop 6.01 in 9.2.2. I notice the difference while dragging the images around the screen, the screen redraw is a bit slow, f.e. it looks almost the same as doing heavy Photoshop work on a first rev G3. I've been told that this is because the network speed in OS X isn't up to speed as it was in OS 9 (all images are on the fileserver). This is bugging me, because that means a slowdown in production. Too bad that this hasn't been fixed by Apple. I mean we have to switch to OS X (what IMHO is no problem), but then make sure everything is running A-OK, right?
Two things:
What you're seeing is most likely a video card issue, not networking issues, though I don't have a lot of experience with Netboot stuff. The latest 10.3.4 upgrade included OpenGL fixes that have affected some video cards; also ATI just released an upgraded set of driver, though I don't know if those have been superceded by 10.3.4.
Are the Macs HDD's running in Journaled mode? If all your stuff is on the network, all that journalling does is slow things down on the workstation; turn it off via Disk Utility. I saw that that made a big difference in speed with a B&W G3 I installed Panther on.
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