Help - iMac too Slow for 6MP Digital Rebel Photos

[csr]

Okay, I'm home now. Just ran vm_stat 15 and am posting the results below. Thanks for the info on the pageins/pageouts. Good to know that I don't have to reboot this computer just to keep it running smoothly. (And clearly a reboot didn't work because I just rebooted a short while ago and iPhoto was still a dog.)

[Cats-Computer:~] cat% vm_stat 15
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes, cache hits 7%)
free active inac wire faults copy zerofill reactive pageins pageout
78659 18809 21082 12522 785240 34652 348414 0 25163 0
64883 21659 31980 12549 30266 776 18308 0 869 0
27650 22357 67958 13101 85350 187 80704 0 1684 0
12541 22657 82538 13336 73269 157 68418 0 916 0
6364 22945 88384 13379 56721 79 54860 0 33 0
8692 22961 86052 13367 79241 0 78569 0 8 0
35434 22529 60027 13082 59283 0 58866 0 27 0
19354 22214 75897 13607 102265 0 101577 0 0 0
22768 21895 72523 13886 62269 0 61707 0 0 0
28433 22749 66907 12983 90333 0 89551 0 0 0
1348 77762 38909 13053 107899 0 106966 67202 0 681
1543 77329 38789 13411 95980 0 94915 51200 0 631
46019 32436 38873 13744 70599 0 65297 19326 595 9024
70582 10539 37513 12438 67661 1 66788 0 367 0
^C

Thanks again! I really appreciate it!

- Catherine

 

[csr]

I woke up early this morning and reinstalled Panther, wiping the previous installation and hard drive completely. Took awhile, but got the system up and downloaded all of the latest updates. Then I ran 'repair permissions' and had a few repairs to do.

Then I started up iPhoto and imported one of the libraries that had previously been so slow. Lo and behold, it was fast!

I then ran vm_stat 15 and though I have no idea what it means, I figured Brian would. Here are the results:

Cat's-Computer:~ cat$ vm_stat 15
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes, cache hits 10%)
free active inac wire faults copy zerofill reactive pageins pageout
34047 23917 59935 13173 1050844 29065 720914 59923 27749 1204
34341 23784 59913 13034 609 78 91 0 2 0
9302 25000 83463 13307 52772 693 41099 0 39 0
6095 49062 61617 14298 85272 3 81641 46119 8 42
9840 36436 71465 13331 70651 75 69482 0 2 0
9932 36436 71469 13235 969 0 896 0 0 0
9817 36436 71494 13325 11401 0 11105 0 2 0
2144 42004 73563 13361 80914 3 78742 24719 19 0
13990 41996 61797 13289 10778 2 9315 0 0 0
^C
Cat's-Computer:~ cat$

Thanks everyone for your help, particularly Brian for the education on memory and 'top'. I am much happier now. I plan on upgrading the memory still, and iPhoto4, but at least the old iPhoto runs at a pretty good clip now!