I really apologise if this topic is too vague or something, but this problem has been bugging me for so long and I want to fix it!
I'm currently running Tiger on an iMac g4 that I think was purchased around 6 years ago, if my memory serves me correctly.
The problem is that generally if I have more than 3 or so apps open at a time (usually iTunes, Adium and Camino), everything is incredibly slow and the spinning rainbow cursor appears a LOT more than it ever used to. Camino is painfully slow at doing everything, even opening a new window. My homepage is set to nothing yet it tries to load something for maybe close to a minute or even more before going blank. Sometimes the rainbow cursor appears then too.
It's not just Camino because it affects everything else as well.
Now I think I can remember reading somewhere that Tiger is best run on 512MB of RAM at least. I currently only have 256MB. So I'm assuming and kind of hoping that this is the problem and that it will easily be sorted with an upgrade. I've been using Tiger for a long time now though, and it was never as bad as this before. Could my computer just be dying of old age? I'm sure they are much more resilient than that so I'm hoping that is not the case.
If anyone has any inkling about this then I'd be more than grateful. Thanks!
I'm currently running Tiger on an iMac g4 that I think was purchased around 6 years ago, if my memory serves me correctly.
The problem is that generally if I have more than 3 or so apps open at a time (usually iTunes, Adium and Camino), everything is incredibly slow and the spinning rainbow cursor appears a LOT more than it ever used to. Camino is painfully slow at doing everything, even opening a new window. My homepage is set to nothing yet it tries to load something for maybe close to a minute or even more before going blank. Sometimes the rainbow cursor appears then too.
It's not just Camino because it affects everything else as well.
Now I think I can remember reading somewhere that Tiger is best run on 512MB of RAM at least. I currently only have 256MB. So I'm assuming and kind of hoping that this is the problem and that it will easily be sorted with an upgrade. I've been using Tiger for a long time now though, and it was never as bad as this before. Could my computer just be dying of old age? I'm sure they are much more resilient than that so I'm hoping that is not the case.
If anyone has any inkling about this then I'd be more than grateful. Thanks!