Thanks a lot for the tip. The webpage and the problem it tackles seems very close to what I'm dealing with. I'll report back if this repair does the trick!

10.4.2 is causing enough trouble that I'm about to hire a PC for a while to actually get some work done. Has anyone heard of how far away 10.4.3 might be?

What kind of trouble?

Seems weird it's really 10.4.2 that causes all the trouble..

Ok.

Well one can never be sure but it just 'seems' to have flared up since 10.4.2. Basically the problems happen under serious load (which never used to be a problem). It seems like a …

v10.4.4 is bugless™ if you can hold out for that long.

I'll try hold on Not sure I'll have enough disk space, this leak if that is what it is gobbles up disk space (went to bed last night and machine had 6Gb free, this morning it has …

Quote: Originally Posted by rm199 I'll try hold on Not sure I'll have enough disk space, this leak if that is what it is gobbles up disk space (went to bed last night and machi…

Quote: Originally Posted by rm199 I'll try hold on Not sure I'll have enough disk space, this leak if that is what it is gobbles up disk space (went to bed last night and machi…

Quote: Originally Posted by rm199 10.4.2 is causing enough trouble that I'm about to hire a PC for a while to actually get some work done. Has anyone heard of how far away 10.4.…

Details-- how much RAM do these machines have, and how many swap files are you generating as it slows down, if any? Have you looked at your memory stats in either top or Activity M…

Quote: Originally Posted by rm199 I'll try hold on Not sure I'll have enough disk space, this leak if that is what it is gobbles up disk space (went to bed last night and machi…

Check your system log files. Something happens to my g5 and the log file fills the HD. I would look at my huge log file to find out whats going on but I cannot open the 8 gig fi…

I have no problems whatsoever... oh yeah... I forgot... I'm running Panther. Hmm.

Tiger has always worked well for me and dot2 is no different. However, I am looking forward to dot3. I like new stuff.

I'm glad to see this thread because I've been having mysterious slowdowns too. I can't remember exactly when I began noticing them, but it was no earlier than 10.4.2. It struck m…

Filevault.

pc hired *sigh of relief* (using it via remote desktop - the macs are stable enough if they are basically idle). now that the pressure is off to some degree I'm going to go throug…

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman Filevault. Are you saying the invisible RAM usage is a normal side-effect of Filevault, or that there is a bug in Filevault that's causing…

Mine's taken to freezing up as of late, it comes up with this in the console: Sep 23 13:42:42 crush DirectoryService[87]: Failed Authentication return is being delayed due to over…

Quote: Originally Posted by rm199 Well one can never be sure but it just 'seems' to have flared up since 10.4.2. Basically the problems happen under serious load (which never us…

If you're using Filevault on a slower drive it makes a lot of sense that things will be appreciably slower and that things will get even slower as files are loaded in and out. Turn…

Filevault on a desktop can be death. And it will eat space.

" very often that is the pre-warning of anotherl thing that happens, the machine will no longer load anything new. Something already running continues however nothing new can be lo…