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I've played with renice as root with syntax like this: [localhost:~] root# renice -20 1751 1751: old priority 0, new priority -20 The primary things I'd like to speed up are the window manager, and when I access the dock. Negative numbers are faster. I'm looking for GUI responsiveness...

I'm running OS X w/Classic on a 233 rev. B iMac w/ 96 MB RAM, and it's fine. Pages to disk a bit, but not annoying or unproductive.

Check your login items in your preference panel, and turn off PPPConnect. I suspect that's the culprit.

Is there any way to say, give an MP3 player or some other real-time app greater access to the processor or memory or disk? I'm tired of the player skipping everytime the mail app indexes or I switch apps.

If Apple is serious about going after the enterprise, they actually need to work with people like Oracle, Sun, SAP, Siebel, etc. Proprietary is fine if you have marketshare, but 5% - less if we're talking enterprise - and proprietary is the kiss of death.

You're thinking Quartz. Aqua is the GUI. The pinstripes, the throbbing blue, etc. Not the antialiasing, PDFizing of Quartz.

I don't give a rat's about the dock. Who is that G4 BABE! I HAVE TO KNOW!

And for a brief shining moment, before I logged out and back in, my software update icon in the dock was an OSX CD icon (white, with the Aqua X) with an orangy arrow on top of it, pointing down. The icon in the finder wasn't changed, though, so I force quit the desktop to see if that worked...

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I don't understand how the finder in OS 9 is any better (or that much different, come to think of it) than Finder.tiff on my homepage. It's 800K, just to let you know.

Weird. OK, the change was it changed my software update icon in my dock to a little OS X cd with an orange arrow, in place of the gray icon it has now. But when I logged out, and logged back in, it was gone. Must have been a test.

Software update works. Only made one little change, though, that I noticed, though no record of it in console. Can anyone else find out where the changes are logged? It said none of my software needed updating, but it did make that little change.

Did it work?

The only options I have seen so far to tweak them are making sure the interface is configured with a maximum transfer unit of 1500 bytes (the maximum ethernet packet size, excepting jumbo frames) by typing "ifconfig en0 mtu 1500" without the quotes (that's a zero), and in pppoe.config, which I'm...

OK. Looking at the FreeBSD tweaks pages, as well as the HOW-TO-CONNECT file in the PPPoE folder (reading it with pico), I've changed the CLAMPMSS=1412 to CLAMPMSS=no. According to the bandwidth testing sites, that sped up my connection from a consistant 700-800K on a Westell modem to 1.2...

OK. I wrote Verizon and wailed on tech support for not giving my my full 1.5 MB DSL. I have two computers on the hub: a Win98 laptop, and an iMac w/OSX PB. Both were getting only ~400-500Kbps. I did a little digging, and found out how to adjust the TCP RWIN value for the 98 laptop, and now...

OK, so if I had 32 MB RAM that I upgraded to 96, what would be the most ecomonical upgrade? Which slot? (clarification: I have already upgraded to 96 and want to upgrade to more) [Edited by MasonMcD on 10-05-2000 at 06:14 AM]

I don't think root is faster now. I think all the cruft just hadn't built up in the user prefs. Now root is just as pokey as other user accts.

Anyone know how to do this? I ask because I think a lot of the thrashing I'm experiencing is due to a non-optimal swap file size, but I don't know if there are any rules of thumb. What's the swap file called anyway? Where is it? How do I change it? Any help appreciated. masonmcd@mac.com

This *is* extremely odd. I've duplicated my user folder when I was in root, renamed root as OldRoot, and my user space folder as root, and logged back in as root. It's *much* snappier. Course I don't have *any* compromising services turned on, and I'm really the only one who uses this comp, so...