Recent content by FyreFly

I have never used Path Finder, but I did have a bunch of System level stuff installed including Little Snitch, Flip4Mac, Stuffit Archiver, Virex, TechTool, and DiskWarrior. As I stated above, running the cron scripts with Cocktail did provide with a decent improvement. However I started...

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Ok, I will try and explain my situation in as much detail as possible. BTW, I am an Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist, don't be afraid to get technical. I noticed after installing 10.4.5 on my G4 that the RAM would fill up with "Inactive" in Activity Monitor constantly and after having...

Ok, now things get weirder.... I left my machine on overnight the other day after getting into Cocktail and running all scripts. I noticed that Inactive RAM when down tremendously. I had over 1GB of free RAM. I started to think that the drive was possibly being indexed and because of my...

Did you do a fresh install of Mac OS X when you got this machine from the previous owner? This would have been the first thing I did if I got a used mac: Erase, reformat, erase free space, and install a fresh copy of 10.4.

The problem is that it IS sluggish. If I want to play Halo or Doom III I basically have to reboot before launching them, otherwise they are basically unplayable. ElDiablo, why would UNIX cache 1.3GB of "Inactive" memory if 0 applications were ever opened on the current session(other than...

I'm experiencing this EXACT problem. I think that I may have a runaway app or possibly some kind of memory leak. I never noticed it until after installing 10.4.5 also. I tried logging in as different users and the problem is persistent between them, eliminating one of my many login items...