Very Slow on Start-Up & Shut Down??

[Donne Trav]

Ref: OS 10.4.11 / Mirrored Door / 867 Mhz / 512 Mb Ram

For the past months or so, my machine takes about 40 seconds to start-up
and shut-down. And thats after that little "spinning wheel appears on the
monitor, which takes about 10 to 15 seconds for an image to appear. In the past, it took less than half that amount of time. I've run Macs "Drive Genius" and "Disk Utilities" from the install DVD several times to no avail. Can someone suggest how to at least cut this time down and back to normal. Its
really a drag waiting for this "wheel" to stop spinning, which seems like
forever. THANKS.

 

[Donne Trav]

All the hits this particular thread has had, no one has bothered to answer what
I thought would be a common problem in the Mac community, machine speed.
Isn't there anyone on this forum with a solution to my "very slow start-up —
shut-down" problem? Come On Man!

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

All the hits this particular thread has had, no one has bothered to answer what
I thought would be a common problem in the Mac community, machine speed.
Isn't there anyone on this forum with a solution to my "very slow start-up —
shut-down" problem? Come On Man!

Very good way to get free help on an online forum... your sense of entitlement precedes you.

40 seconds is not unheard of. How long did it used to take? What messages show up in your system log (hint: Console.app) during startup and shutdown that appear to take a long time (log entires are timestamped -- look for something that's taking a long time)?