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    so if i install them, do i have to then do anything special to speed up the system or does it just happen by itself?

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    Is this speed gain on top of the speed gain from installing the Developer Tools that came with OS X? I already have that installed, and it gave me a little speed boost... Does DT 10.0.1 help on top of DT 10.0?It's probably just the System Optimization; even if it's been optimized before, installing and removing apps would invalidate the Optimization it's already done, therefore it must be done again...
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    doesn't anyone remember this from long ago? after OS X was released some people installed the dev tools and got a speed boost. it was discovered that the install did an update_prebinding command which brought the spped increase.

    maybe this is that again?

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    Exclamation Small dev tools side note

    I LOVE THE BOMB.APP

    It's cool in a simple way
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    WooHoo!

    Wow, OS X IS FLYING!
    Mail in two bounces!
    Ominweb in three!
    The delay opening a new finder window is almost completely gone!
    Menus almost as snappy as OS 9!
    Nice window movement, but resizing has not improved.
    Column view is much faster, opens a 500 file column instantaneously!

    Could this have something to do with that fact that I am running
    10.0.4? (Shh!)
    Anyone else here running it?
    Wow! XP is gonna die!
    Phil Wood

    iBook466 320Mb Airport Base Station
    Cable Modem OS X.1.4

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    First:
    Installed it on my Cube yesterday evening, MacOS 10.0.3, DevTool 10.0, and I got a major speed gain and NO crashed system!

    Second:
    I am running update_prebinding twice a week and this is NOT what made the speed gain. In fact, every update of MacOS X makes an update_prebinding...if you dislike the console, get XOptimize, it does it for you, else, type update_prebinding -verbose -root / (IIRC...verbose is not needed, but it gives you a status of how it's going on)
    It helps a bit.
    But this speed gain is more of a graphical speed increase. Cool!

    Third: Could anyone with a little bit of Unix knowledge help me? I am using the pop up menu from my HDD in the dock quite often, like the Windows (Buuuh) start menu, but at home, I only have a ATA drive, no SCSI, and it always takes a second the FIRST TIME I open a folder over the pop up menu. The following times, it goes very fast. Is it possible to somehow preload the content of the disc at startup? I would even wait a minute at startup to get a faster response from the pop up during later use of the system (I am only restarting my Mac maybe twice a week since I am doing much video capturing and encoding, so my Mac runs 24/7 mostly

    fourth: Apart from the problems at work, I can only suggest the DevTools. My I ask if the people who got a speed increase are also using a Radeon card? Maybe new Radeon drivers?

    five: the bomb app is an app which should demonstrate that a crashing application won't affect the system or other apps. So it's not only a toy

    ulrik

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    I think the problem with the delayed Dock openings in the Dock itself--it doesn't preload anything, though it would be nice if it did.

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    I doubt that for the following reason or behaviour:

    I boot up OS X, then I open the pop-up menu of one of my harddisks in the dock. Not only does the "root" take about two or three seconds to load, every folder I open takes a few seconds. As I told, this only happens once. If I open the same pop-up menu later, it pops up very fast.

    Now, to illustrate what I mean:
    I boot up OS X, then I open the harddisk from the icon on my desktop. I browse through some folders. Now I open the pop up menu from the dock. The folders I already visited in the finder open fast, the others take time to load! I have no big knowledge about how OS X works deep within the kernel, but this behaviour gives me the impression that OS X some kind of creates a real time TOC during it's run, which it accesses once a harddisk access is requested (pop up menu, finder window etc.) so it would be cool of Mac OS X could create this TOC, as I call it, at boot up. I guess this isn't done to prevent the system taking up too much RAM for such stuff, but I have 1024 MB installed at the moment (I love the prices for RAM in germany at the moment and I could spent a bit of it for such an option.
    So after all, to me it doesn't seem like a "problem" in the dock app but in the drive routines structure of the system.

    Anyway, if anyone can understand what I mean (thanx to my bad english) and hears anything about such an option, maybe a terminal command, please let me know!

    btw:
    does sherlock indexing have anything to do with it or is this indexing purely for sherlock?

    ulrik

 

 
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