[geeks] OSX optimizations

[Joacim Melin]

I don't know if this is an issue anymore but if you installed OS X 
10.1.x with the "unix" filesystem you got _really_ low performance.  I 
heard Apple was supposed to have taken care about that one in OS X 10.2 
but I haven't tried that feature yet.

- Joacim

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On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 03:38 Europe/Stockholm, Kevin wrote:

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> I'm planning on taking another look at it this weekend.  Maybe
> trying to shutdown unneeded daemons or just go back and do a
> custom install.  That's the best way to learn it i suppose.  I
> had assumed that a decent amount of that eye candy crap could
> be turned off but from what i have seen in my web searches,
> most of it cannot.  I have never understood the concept of not
> allowing people to disable features.  I can understand some
> BS being turned on by default.  I can even understand
> companies making it difficult to turn off.  But i can cannot
> understand the concept of not giving people the option in the
> end.
>
> /KRM
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> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:52:34 -0500
> Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 05:57 AM, Kevin wrote:
>>> I just set my mother up with OSX.  She is running a
>>> dual G4 1.25, a gig of ram and all 320 SCSI hardware,
>>> no ide drives except the DVD-R.  She says it is not
>>> nearly as responsive as she expected.  You have to wait
>>> a few seconds just to open up basic text files and
>>> such.  Aside from the exception of installing it on her
>>> new machine this weekend, I have never used OSX before.
>>>  Are there any tips for optimizing the speed that i may
>>> have missed?  Are there ways of turning off some of
>>> that BS eye candy?  Are there a million services
>>> running with a basic OSX install?  Any tips we could
>>> get to speed this thing up would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>
>>    I don't have any specific suggestions, but I can
>>    definitely say that
>> something is very wrong.  I played with a dual 800Mhz G4
>> about a year ago and everything was pretty much *instant*.
>>
>>           -Dave
>>
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>> blow-gun dart in your
>>                             prosthetic boobies."    -Kurt
>>                             Huhn
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