Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- Subject: Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- From: "Bob Hansen" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:33:55 -0500
Here's one more for the archive.
I was running an iMac with 1.5Ghz processor and 1GB of RAM but was so incredibly so I hardly could get work done.
Now I'm running a Mac Pro with 2 x 2.66Ghz dual-core Intel Xeons (4 cores total) and 2GB RAM using Xcode 2.5. Even with this expensive configuration I would say the Xcode experience is decent at best. Xcode randomly hangs for seconds at a time, and adding new files to the project takes no less than 20 seconds, sometimes minutes. Even simple things like opening a C file can take a whole second or two.
The project is about 1000 files for a 20MB executable. I feel Xcode is to blame. The only other software that I've seen bring this kind of hardware to its knees is video editing and games. But text editing? Give me a break!
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:53 PM, P Teeson <
email@hidden> wrote:
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.
(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>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: P Teeson <email@hidden>) |