<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:12 AM, dafydd hughes wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. Anybody running Pd and 10.4 on a G4 Powerbook 867 with 640 MB RAM?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is 10.4 perhaps written for faster computers, meaning I should go back to 10.3?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV>I would stick with 10.3 if it was working fine. There aren't a lot of new audio features in 10.4 that Pd uses and the graphics and video ones like CoreImage/GLSL you can't use fully on that hardware. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The integrated dictionary is my favorite 10.4 feature so far, which is pretty faint praise. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. Are there any background processes I should shut down in order to get better audio performance?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Spotlight. There's a system preference panel for excluding volumes. Put all of the drives you have in the list. This will disable searching in the Finder though, so either use locate or a 3rd party tool. Spotlight is one of the dumbest search implementations ever developed. It constantly runs checking and indexing new files and volumes just in case a user happens to search for something on those. It takes many hours to index a modern hard drive during which Spotlight monopolizes disk I/O making the computer slow to a crawl.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dashboard eats a fair amount of RAM, plus it has serious security issues. Drag it out of the Dock and 'poof' it's gone.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Google for ways to permanently disable these if they are of no use to you.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3. Maybe this one's for a Mac list, but... My initial attempt at upgrading failed part way through due to unspecified errors.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A second attempt went fine, even though it looks like 10.4 was half installed (Dashboard was showing etc).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is a clean install in order?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I usually put new OS upgrades on an external Firewire drive for testing first. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>cgc</DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>