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Dreamaker
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Hi All,

 

My config in signature.

 

I working with Adobe CS3. But I detected very slow action in GUI. Everythink works, but very slow. In Vista all my work goes much faster. In Vista I can open many windows and get fast move.

 

Seems like HDs read/write is very slow.

 

I run a test Xbench... here is a results:

 

Results	148.61	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.5.1 (9B18)
	Physical RAM		2048 MB
	Model		Mac Pro
	Drive Type		HDT722516DLA380
CPU Test	152.21	
	GCD Loop	313.66	16.53 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	149.55	3.55 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	120.14	3.96 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	123.74	21.55 Mops/sec
Thread Test	232.98	
	Computation	234.20	4.74 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	231.77	9.97 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	213.49	
	System	241.79	
		Allocate	343.97	1.26 Malloc/sec
		Fill	197.60	9607.75 MB/sec
		Copy	225.26	4652.71 MB/sec
	Stream	191.12	
		Copy	176.38	3642.96 MB/sec
		Scale	183.89	3799.08 MB/sec
		Add	203.50	4334.92 MB/sec
		Triad	203.78	4359.32 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	187.74	
	Line	173.45	11.55 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	228.92	68.34 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	181.94	14.83 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	184.90	4.66 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	178.76	11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	176.96	
	Spinning Squares	176.96	224.48 frames/sec
User Interface Test	251.58	
	Elements	251.58	1.15 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test	60.23	
	Sequential	85.78	
		Uncached Write	69.13	42.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	84.64	47.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	88.72	25.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	110.16	55.36 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	46.40	
		Uncached Write	17.70	1.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	85.75	27.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	94.07	0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	135.03	25.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

Any ideas? What you can advice to do?

 

Thx for any advice!

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argonlazer
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I have the same problem here. My disk speeds are appauling!

 

Results	16.86	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.5.2 (9C31)
	Physical RAM		2048 MB
	Model		ACPI
	Drive Type		SAMSUNG SP1604N SAMSUNG SP1604N
CPU Test	62.68	
	GCD Loop	81.04	4.27 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	66.54	1.58 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	37.90	1.25 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	99.39	17.31 Mops/sec
Thread Test	127.00	
	Computation	109.65	2.22 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	150.88	6.49 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	76.55	
	System	75.60	
		Allocate	79.67	292.57 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	89.07	4330.91 MB/sec
		Copy	62.87	1298.57 MB/sec
	Stream	77.52	
		Copy	77.90	1609.02 MB/sec
		Scale	76.40	1578.46 MB/sec
		Add	77.65	1654.04 MB/sec
		Triad	78.16	1672.13 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	105.66	
	Line	85.79	5.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	100.47	29.99 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	92.62	7.55 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	95.18	2.40 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	226.75	14.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	88.79	
	Spinning Squares	88.79	112.64 frames/sec
User Interface Test	110.26	
	Elements	110.26	506.03 refresh/sec
Disk Test	2.87	
	Sequential	1.87	
		Uncached Write	1.54	0.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	1.58	0.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	3.06	0.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	1.89	0.95 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	6.15	
		Uncached Write	9.08	0.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	3.13	1.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	49.89	0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	4.98	0.92 MB/sec [256K blocks]

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MrRoper
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I'm in the same boat, tho my read/write speeds are closer to dreamaker's i'm in the 7's who hooo

Not sure if there's an alternative for u to try, I tried a new sata controller kext for nforce. raised my scores quite a bit, but my sata dvd drive would not recognize dvd's anymore. so i had to revert

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Λύκος
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Anyone have any idea on this? My read/write speeds are ungodly slow as well, makes installing games etc. nearly impossible on OS X. No problem at all on XP.

 

If anyone knows anything, please help.

 

My system specs are in my sig, the OS X machine being Coiotes.

 

Using Kalyway + 10.5.2 Kalyway ComboUpdate

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Λύκος
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Here's a tip - Don't use XBench. A random number generator would be more accurate. Try geekbench or Cinebench (doesn't test hard drive).

 

Doesn't make a difference if I use XBench or not. It'd take 30 minutes to transfer a 1 gig app from a DMG file to my HDD regardless of what some app showed me.

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popaz
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Doesn't make a difference if I use XBench or not. It'd take 30 minutes to transfer a 1 gig app from a DMG file to my HDD regardless of what some app showed me.

 

I have the same problem on IP35 pro :S

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jacob08
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as stupid as this sounds the only way i can get my system to run fast is by running random terminal commands...otherwise it takes like 10 seconds for the menu from a right-click to go awayneat so correction to my previous post... the machine also runs a good speed when its not plugged in...

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jansan
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All you guys should have a look at your activity monitor (check "all processes"). There is a kernel task issue. The process eats all CPU. try searching for it around the forums, cause your descriptions seem like fitting to this problem.

 

It can be cured :-)

 

But this is connected only to actions on the HDD (writing/reading to/from hard disk causes system slowdown to absurdity). I have generally slow performence compared to Tiger and other distros of Leopard and Windows (currently running Iatkos 10.5.1). Everything works but very slowly, while read/write speeds are ok.

 

Any ideas what to look for before giving up on Iatkos? Can it be related to wireless (zydas 1211) recently installed?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

here some specs:

 

Nvidia Gforce 6200 PCI

Intel Pentium 4 3.07 Ghz

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jadphoto14
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I'm having this same issue. Everything is incredibly slow. In fact, so slow I have unplugged my leopard hard drive and plugged in my XP drive to type this. I just got done installing iAtkos R2, and I don't even know if my computer works well or not, because it was so slow. So, if anyone finds a solution, that would be great, but until then I'm sticking to XP.

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00diabolic
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{censored}.. I read this post yesturday & thought I had a different issue then you guys. I was using geekbench to do some testing between Vista, 10.5.1 and 10.5.2 and found 10.5.2 was the slowest and I could not figure out why. Geekbench does not tell you what your HD is transfering at but having it slow does affect your results. See my post about slow 10.5.2 results if you care.

 

I had never had a slow boot up though like you guys until today. Today on battery i booted up and it took like freakin 8 mins on my laptop.

 

I definitely have the same problem and its because of one of the ATA drivers on kalyway 10.5.2.

 

My xbench score is 67.37 and my disk test are in the 70's and low 80's for the most part. So now that I have a good idea whats causing this. Who wants to fix it?

 

This is what we need to do.

 

Go and reinstall your systems this time making changes to anything that installs a IDE, SATA, ATA driver. Try one you never tried before.

 

In kalyway 10.5.2 it warns do not unselect all of the drivers in that section. Whatever driver is in 10.5.1 works for me and I intend to find it and use that one.

 

Hope that helps you guys. Let me know what you come across. I know a lot of you are on desktops and I'm on a laptop but hopefully we can figure this out.

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zarac
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you all guys probably suffer from the same problem: chipset driver

usually if osx installation takes longer than 30-35 minutes it means generic ata driver is loaded.

you can check what kext is loaded when booting with verbose switch (-v). look for the long line that starts with "Boot Device Detected..."

whatever kext is mentioned in that line takes care of your drive.

if it says AppleGenericATA.kext you're bound for really low disk transfers. on my old amd machine install alone took over 90 minutes with that kext. it turned out i needed AppleVIAATA.kext with my device/vendor id inserted in it.

 

you can help yourself by checking your motherboard chipset (cpu-z in windows) and finding the appropriate kext for it.

if you're not running windows, you can use DPCIManager in osx which will display a complete list of devices in your system with their vendor and device id's.

on this site you can find what hardware is behind those vendor/device codes and identify your chipset.

 

hope this helps a bit.

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