arshmenarnar Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 i need some uber good advice right now. i am having a frustrating performance average from my osx86 machine running 10.5. I am a long time osx86'er at this point, and i custom spec'd each part of this particular computer to run as a speedy machine for web design and adobe stuff. im running kalyway 10.5.1 paired with a dual core cpu, 4gb of ddr2 667, 7200gs nvidia, over 2tb of disc space on various locations accessible to this computer either via FW or all on sata 2 drives, and even still indexing files during a search requires finder to like take over. Anywho it's to the point I have turned off all automatic backups of my web server data, turned off norton antivirus and other bg type programs, disabled the 3d dock, etc. I am really annoyed that im lagging on virtual memory so badly. What the hell can I do. At any average moment (nearly 24-7) I'm at least running Firefox, Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I open a ton of tabs in FF reloading code. I'm finding myself having to budget with Photoshop CS3 and continually close extra files that I am not using, and even without any files open its using about 1gb of memory by itself. forget VMware anymore, too. This shouldn't be happening; perhaps I need to change distros or do something in Terminal but I basically want to trim down OS X so that I can get the speed I had with 10.4.8 Jas. Any suggestions? Im forced to restart the computer an average of twice a day to clear Photoshop CS3s questionable memory hole issues. Perhaps I should take 1gb out of stay under the 3GB celing too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86539-leopard-x86-performance-troubles/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
arshmenarnar Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 i just wanted to follow up that i solved this problem by removing 1gb of ram and staying under the 4gb mark. with 3gb everything is smooth as silk. add the extra 1gb in again and im toast. this is on an msi 945p neo board. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86539-leopard-x86-performance-troubles/#findComment-632632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Was it bad RAM perhaps? have you tried labeling the RAM and them swapping out one at a time? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86539-leopard-x86-performance-troubles/#findComment-632839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arshmenarnar Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 no definately not bad ram because ive got the module in another system. i think it has to do with the motherboard having some kind of chipset limitation. the bios only detected 3.12gb of ram even with 4gb installed, os x detected all 4gb but windows and all other oses only 3.12gb that includes x64 versions of windows. i think its some kind of limitation of the 945 chipset. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86539-leopard-x86-performance-troubles/#findComment-633184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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