Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.3) optimizing?

[avezeau]

Any know of how to optimize Tiger 10.4.3 for use in LW by turning off unnecessary processes that show up in Activity Monitor?

How to the Turnkey people do it? Special OS installs?

Thanks for any info.

[Captain Obvious]

And what would those unnecessary processes be? If the process doesn't use any CPU time, it's not doing anything and removing it wouldn't gain you a thing. Disabling shadows around windows or something such will not improve performance either.

[dsol]

I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3 last week on my dual 2.5 G5 and noticed immediately that the drive seemed to churn constantly and that performance (at least as far as UI responsiveness) had suffered.
"Fine" - I thought - "I guess that's just spotlight creating metadata for all my files". Thing is, even after it had finished I was still suffering CPU spasms. Activity Monitor indicated that Apple's Fax Server was gobbling up huge chunks of CPU time, so I killed that and - yay! - the snappyness was back. I've since delected the fax server from the startup items on my user account to save me manually killing it each time I boot. This has the additional benefit of speeding up my boot times :)

Obviously, if you need to fax I imagine this won't be an option. But ****, I haven't sent a fax in like, 5 years! (now it's PDF or bust)

[dsol]

PS: just to clarify, this only seems to be a major problem with 10.4x, the cpu usage on 10.3x is pretty minimal (though not 0%)

[Captain Obvious]

This isn't the first time I've heard of fax center being buggy. I haven't had a problem with it, though. I've only used it for like fifteen minutes in total, but still. :p

[3dworks]

PS: just to clarify, this only seems to be a major problem with 10.4x, the cpu usage on 10.3x is pretty minimal (though not 0%)

on three macs running tiger i never didn't see this problem... maybe this happens only if certain components are used, like the fax center?

markus

[Johnny]

Can't say I've experienced things gobbling up CPU power while just sitting there, with 2 notable exceptions: Safari and iTunes.

I don't know what explains it, but every so often, those apps really start using the juice while doing nothing. Quitting and relaunching them clears the problem.

Activity Monitor will show how much memory and cpu power a process is using, and will allow you to quit those processes which are using too much.

J

[Captain Obvious]

This (http://www.donelleschi.com/cunningfox/) is a great piece of software for optimizing your renders. Photoshop idles at about 2% CPU on my iBook. By pausing it, I can save those percent for Lightwave, without having to actually quit Photoshop. Awesome. ;)