Speed up Mac
- Thread starter diroga
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tlarkin
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That is pretty vague, and you will have to take a look at it.
tlarkin
VIP Member
Reinstalling the OS is probably not needed, which is why we need more information. Which is why I said it was too vague.
What slow downs?
How does it slow down?
Is it related to a particular apps?
What is the user doing with this machine?
diroga
New Member
WOW, thanks, that will be handy.
Client doesnt know much about computers and i dont know much about Mac OS X. Installing the RAM is the cheapest service that can be preformed. It didnt seem slow to me but i didnt run much. It was really slow when I started XP in Virtual PC, obviously.
They wanted to run iTunes 8 and remove XP, QuickBooks, defrag, and "system clean up". I showed them they need to update the OS to install iTunes. I tried explaining to them that removing XP and QuickBooks wont speed up the computer. I tried to explain to them that the file system that OS X uses does not require defragging. As for system speed up there seems like there is not much that could be done to make any significant preformance improvement.
Im not familour with BSD commands. I tried pstree but does not exists. I ran top and looked like nothing was using cpu but top. i couldnt figure out the rest of the out put for memory.
patrickv
Active Member
I'm running leopard and i got a few hints on the link
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
Might work in your case, take a look at it
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
Might work in your case, take a look at it
tlarkin
VIP Member
Well virtual machines eat up RAM for sure. Here is a script I wrote a while ago for basic diagnostics, it was written for Tiger so not sure what has changed if anything in leopard.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#This is a menu for basic diagnostics by Thomas Larkin
echo "Hello $USER, Welcome to the Tom's Diagnostic script!"
echo "Today is ";date
echo "Number of user logged in : " ; who | wc -l
echo "Calendar"
cal
selection=
until [ "$selection" = "0" ]; do
echo ""
echo "Select an option please"
echo "1 - Display all objects in /Volumes"
echo "2 - Display total disk usage of /, this may take a while. You will be prompted for admin access"
echo "3 - Display the disk usage of my Home Directory, this may take a while"
echo "4 - Print the contents of /var/log/system.log"
echo "5 - List all current users logged in this computer"
echo "6 - Display my Network Settings and Information"
echo "7 - Display my BASH command paths"
echo "8 - Display all the current running processes"
echo "9 - Display current resources being used"
echo "10 - Display the print error log"
echo "11 - Display the crash reporter log"
echo "12 - Run Verify permissions on the boot volume"
echo "13 - Run Repair Permissions on the boot volume"
echo "14 - Run verify volume on the boot volume"
echo "15 - list all information of boot volume"
echo "0 - exit program"
echo ""
echo -n "Enter selection: "
read selection
echo ""
case $selection in
1 ) ls -al /Volumes ;;
2 ) sudo du -h / | sort ;;
3 ) du -a -h /Users/$USER | sort ;;
4 ) cat /var/log/system.log ;;
5 ) finger -h ;;
6 ) ifconfig ;;
7 ) echo $PATH ;;
8 ) ps -A ;;
9 ) top -s5 20 ;;
10 ) cat /var/log/cups/error_log ;;
11 ) cat /var/log/crashreporter.log ;;
12 ) diskutil verifyPermissions / ;;
13 ) diskutil repairPermissions / ;;
14 ) diskutil verifyVolume / ;;
15 ) diskutil list / ;;
0 ) exit ;;
* ) echo "Please enter a valid option"
esac
donePlease note you run this at your own risk. I published it on OS X Hints dot com a while back ago, here is the original post:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070831171105304
