Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- Subject: Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- From: P Teeson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:53:31 -0400
On 15-Apr-08, at 6:38 PM, Doug Hill wrote:
On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 10:40AM, "Steve Checkoway"
<email@hidden> wrote:
On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Joachim Deelen wrote:
As I said in my previous post. Increasing RAM (at least more than
1GB) and a clean install of Leopard helped a lot.
My PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz and 1.5 GB RAM works good with Xcode 3. An
the Projects I'm working on are not small at all.
This wasn't my experience. I bought a gig of ram for my PB 1.33
GHz (I
think I had to remove 256 MB to put that stick in) and Xcode is
still
almost totally unusable.
My experience matches Steve's. My 1.33 PB has a gig of RAM and a
clean install of Leopard, and Xcode's editor is unusable on that
system with moderately large Obj-C files (2-3 thousand lines). I
filed a bug report on that back in October rdar://problem/5572897
with a completely reproducible test case and Shark traces
(Instruments is even worse than Xcode on a single core system).
Six months without a bugfix release of the dev tools is a bummer,
too.
My experience is with running Xcode 2.x on a 450MHz G4 tower with
10.4.x installed. With 1 GB of RAM Xcode is so slow as to be
completely unusable. Doing a little bit of poking around in System
Profiler tells me the slowdown comes from massive amounts of paging
to disk when the GCC tools are running. I then upgraded to 2GB of
RAM and things are back to be acceptable. Looking in System
Profiler again, I notice that GCC will use ~2GB of RAM for non-
trivial compiles.
I'm not going to recommend this configuration but I suggest you
start adding RAM until GCC stops paging to disk. It might take more
than 2GB. Also, try out Xcode 2.5 instead of 3.0 and see if that
helps your performance.
Doug Hill
Oracle Corp.
As the OP I can say that I have no complaints with Xcode 2.5 and the
HW I mentioned.
(G4 867mhz, 1.12GB RAM)
Thank you all for your feedback. Looks like I will just wait till I
get my new gear.
respect....
Peter
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| | >G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: P Teeson <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: William Bates <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Wesley Smith" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Joachim Deelen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Doug Hill <email@hidden>) |