Re: Working on Mac OS X 10.3.7
Re: Working on Mac OS X 10.3.7
- Subject: Re: Working on Mac OS X 10.3.7
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:29:25 -0600
On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 10:17AM, Stephane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
>Is there a solution to be able to work (develop) on Mac OS X 10.3.7?
>
>I'm experiencing huge slowness in the launch of XCode, Terminal,
>Console.app (Dev Tools). Could it be linked to the DNS bug in 10.3.7 or
>is there something wrong with using XCode 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.7?
A couple of days ago, I experienced a strange slowdown. I also have 10.3.7 and at the time I was at least running:
Xcode 1.5
Mail
Safari
Photoshop CS
Illustrator CS
Accessorizer
my own app
I first noticed the slowdowns when launching my app from within Xcode; On my 2GHz G5, it normally takes 1.7 sec to launch. But it was taking at least 5 or more seconds. Also, when moving from screen to screen (this is a kiosk-type app), it initially was also sluggish. But the app caches all its UI and graphics, so moving to a screen that was already shown at least once was at normal speed.
My app loads quite a bit of PDF documents for its graphics content and it was ultimately the longer disk reads that was slowing my app launch down.
At this point, I have no clue what caused such slow file access to occur. top reported that top itself was taking about 12% of the CPU. At the time, I was downloading a file in Safari on a dialup connection, but Safari at most would spike up to about 15%. Most of the time it was in single digits. The only other item shown by top that was in the upper single-digits was lookupd.
Finally, I remember quitting all my open apps, then lauching them again and all was back to normal. I've never seen this behavior since.
--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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