Recent content by sanduku

If it was a background process that was freezing everything, wouldn't that have shown up using 'ps' or 'top'? I haven't seen anything obviously unusual in the console.app logs, but I'm not sure what is supposed to be usual in many parts. I will keep looking, but any hints of what to be...

Hello All I am dealing with what seems to be a dying hard drive. I am using OSX 10.4.11 on a PowerPC G5. I am the only user of the machine. Last week, I started having a problem with the computer running extreeeemly slow in my main account: taking 15 minutes or more to log in, and some 45...