Is it my install or is X too slow

[jove]

Hello,
Are other X users running into the same application load times I am? X is making MacOS 9 look peppy!

iBook DV, 500Mhz G3, 10Gig HD, and 128MB RAM.

Sample load times right after a restart. The only application loaded at login is Drop Drawers.

1) System Preferences - 8 seconds
2) OmniWeb Splash Screen - 20 seconds
3) OmniWeb Full Load - 30 seconds
4) Mac Help from Finder - 20 seconds
5) QuickTime w/o Document - 20 seconds
6) Not to mention IE and Classic :-(

Jove

[jsodini]

I have the same speed issues on my PowerBook due to the fact that I only have 128 megs of RAM. My Desktop G4 has half a gig and slams right through those things like no tomarrow.

Apple recomends a MINIMUM of 128 which really isn't enough due to my two day expereince.

Although on a brief side note, BSD has a much more effecient way of handling swap files (virtual memory) than any other OS (I could be wrong, so don't quote me on this!) so this could always be worse! Although I don't see a traditional swap partition.

-Jim

[jmo]

I have been running OS X public beta since October, 2000.
OSX 10.0 is noticeably slower than the public beta. I
find myself glaring at that spinning rainbow disk much
more than I used to be. This is disappointing, as some
here indicated that the more recent OS X loads were 3
times faster than the public beta.

PowerMac G4, 256MB, 20GHD-OSX, 20GHD-OS9.1

[BatGuano2000]

Well, I guess it is not not my machine. I too found PB faster than Final.

I was expecting a nice speed increase after reading reviews of 4K78, so what gives now?

I am hoping that is is just the way I have my 333 iMac (192mb) setup. 9.0 upped to 9.1 from download, the OS X "Not for Resale" store version (couldn't wait for fedex).

I will let you all know if I find a difference in speed once my OS X-in-a-box arrives later this week.

[Bartintosh]

I crossed the same slow issues with PowerBook G3 400/192, but only under UFS as far as i try, but anyway my first was so long, strange... for example on after my first installation my Airport card was not recoignzed... and many strange things of that kind. I just change my Hard Drive for a 20 Go, then re-installed OS X on HFS+ file system, and everything work fine finally. I don't know what happend with this OS, but don't be desapointed if something strange happend...






Bartintosh
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[russgold]

I am finding the OS X IE to be much slower than the classic version, especially when popping up select lists. It pauses <i>noticeably</i> and displays the spinning wheel... RAM cannot be the problem - I have 448 MB - and while my beige G3 is "only" 266 Mhz, something very inefficient is happening here. I wonder if Apple skipped the optimizations in order to make the Mar 24 release date?

[mtint]

Hi,

I find os X running siginficaally slow compare to OX9.1,
I have 192M of RAM and 20G HD.

I am thinking about upgrading my mac soon but who is to say
I won't find any improvement?

[jove]

Hello,

I was told on another forum (Apple's) that Powerbook (and I imagine iBook) support is truly lacking in this release.

The suggestion to to turn of "economy ", wherever that is, should speed things up. Another suggestion was to nice the background tasks to lower priorities. I haven't tried it yet.

I find it interesting that I can drag a transparaent playing QT movie without ANY hesitation but the system takes 30 seconds to load simple applications. Could this be an issue of finding and linking libraries to applications?

jove