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Mac OS X slower after 10.2.4

upgrade?

From: Larry Fransson <newsgroups@larryandjenny.net>
Subject: Re: OSX 10.2.4 massive slowdown over 10.2.3 and other major issues
References: <bbec26f6.0302220210.6a28730@posting.google.com> 
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:01:06 GMT

In article <bbec26f6.0302220210.6a28730@posting.google.com>,
 google@owonder.com (Wonderkid) wrote:

> OSX 10.2.4 massive slowdown over 10.2.3 and other major issues
> 
> Warning: This is a very angrily written posting

Advice:  Chill out some before you write next time.

> Is it possible
> Apple have knobbled OS 10.2.4 to force people to upgrade to faster
> machines?

Anything is possible.  Very little is likely.  Conspiracy theories 
generally don't add to a person's credibility.

> I do not want to hear back from people saying this is my configuration
> or from those defending Apple.

No, no.  Anything but your point of view would be pointless, wouldn't it?

> I want to hear from those who have the same problem and know how to
> fix it....

I've found that any time there is a major slowdown, it's related to a 
rogue process hogging a lot of processor time.  Do you ever run any 
applications in Classic?  I've had Classic (the process name is 
"TrueBlueEnvironment") take off and hog a whole lot of processor time a 
couple of times when it should have been sitting relatively idle since I 
didn't have any Classic applications running at the time.  Stopping 
Classic fixed the problem.  I've generally had to force quit Classic in 
those cases because Classic was too busy to be interrupted by a normal 
shutdown.

Beyond that, 10.2.4 seems no slower than any previous version.

-- 
Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA

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