Archive for October, 2009
Speeding up rarely used Leopard laptop
I have an old G4 laptop that comes out sometimes when my girlfriend fiance is using the shiny new MacBook Air. Unfortunately, every time I use it, the hard drive thrashes and the CPU goes to 90%. This is not good when you’re simply trying to read nytimes.com.
What you’ll probably notice if you look at the activity monitor or the output of ps from the terminal is the locate command running. This is trying to update the locate database – which makes running ‘locate’ from the command line faster and I’m presuming is the backend for Spotlight?
Just pop into the terminal and from /etc/periodic run:
sudo mv weekly/310.locate monthly/
sudo mv /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate /etc/periodic/monthly/
Now, locate will only run monthly when you haven’t opened it in a long time. If you don’t care about locate – you can also just delete the file entirely – if it’s just a browser machine with no new files – it doesn’t matter anyway.
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