- Are there any background processes I should shut down in order to
get better audio performance?
yes: macosxhints and other sites offer how-tos for shutting down dashboard and even spotlight. both consume a lot of cpu and worst of all: they generate peaks in cpu usage. the other important thing
is to quit mail.
When I installed OSX 10.4 one of the standard widgets, ToDo Tracker,
seemed to have a serious memory leak. Having run for 2 days doing
basically nothing, it had chewed more than 2 Gb of virtual memory.
Checking the Console Log it seemed that it was in debug state,
creating huge logs about nothing. Throwing that one out, made a huge
difference. I now find Tiger to be faster than 10.3, but I'm not sure
if the real reason is the OS upgrade or rather that i freed a lot
more space on the hard drive while doing the upgrade. I suspect that
i previously had that little free space left that virtual memory
handling became inefficient.
Best, Trond
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Trond Lossius