Mac slow after Xcode use
Mac slow after Xcode use
- Subject: Mac slow after Xcode use
- From: Patrick Mau <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:24:28 +0200
Hallo everyone
This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to know if this is a known
issue.
I use Xcode 3.1.3 with 10.5.7 developing mostly for my Mac, just a
little on the iPhone.
My system is a MacPro 3.1, 8 cores and 8GB RAM, using a seperate disk
for my development account.
This is not my "normal" account used for mail and web browsing and the
startup disk, including
"/Developer" is also on a different drive.
Whenever I used Xcode for a couple of hours, my overall system is
becoming painfully slow to
respond. Scrolling in Firefox, Expose functions, or minimizing windows
becomes really sluggish.
There are other symptoms like scrollbars and menues flickering, slow
Spotlight results, etc.
The slowdown persists even after I quit Xcode, log out and then switch
to my non-development account.
There's no CPU load at all, neither Activity Monitor nor "top" in
Terminal shows any CPU hogs.
My swapfile setting is modified to use 256MB for each file and used
swap is currently 4MB, probably
because I leave my Mac on for long periods of time.
I suspect that this has something to do with using the debugger,
setting breakpoints and stepping
through code, because if I only start Xcode, compile and run a project
and quit afterwards,
everything is still allright.
What kind of helps is to restart Finder and the Dock using:
sudo killall Dock
sudo killall Finder
Is Xcode or gdb setting some kind of traps inside the kernel that
slows down the system?
What else could I look out for?
Regards
Patrick
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