[geeks] OSX optimizations

[Kevin]

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Thanks for the info.  I went with the Apple Extended (which i
assume is HFS+), but i was wondering if i would get better
performance with UFS.  My guess now is that i should leave it
at Apple Extended.

/KRM

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:58:42 +0100
Joacim Melin <listor at melin.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 'Vulcans do not mingle.' - Tuvoc, Star Trek DS9.
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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
> >
> > 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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> >don't> be surprised St. Petersburg, FL        if you wind
> >up with a> blow-gun dart in your
> >>                             prosthetic boobies."    -Kurt
> >>                             Huhn
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