Re: Sweet16 Slowdown..

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Andrew,

If you copy and paste that script, get rid of the extra carriage returns
that the usenet editor throws in. Otherwise it won't compile.

Hugh...



in article C66ADC99.2CC5%hughhood@earthlink.net, Hugh Hood at
hughhood@earthlink.net wrote on 6/26/09 8:14 PM:

> Andrew:
> 
> When OS X 10.4 (Tiger) arrived, I had the same problem when running Classic
> under OS X with a single processor PPC. It tied up too much of the CPU, and
> didn't allow other _important_ processes time to breath. Hence, things
> sputtered.
> 
> The solution, I found, was to 'renice' Classic (actually the
> TruBlueEnvironment) and my problems 'all went away'.
> 
> I was about to post an AppleScript to help out those of us who still run
> Bernie under Classic (Sheppy is making Sweet16 feature equal as time
> permits).
> 
> Here is that same AppleScript modified so it renices Sweet16. First start up
> Sweet16, then run the script and let us know your results.
> 
> 
> APPLESCRIPT BEGIN
> 
> set Sweet16PID to do shell script "ps -axww | grep '[/]Sweet16'| awk '{print
> $1}'"
> 
> do shell script "sudo renice 20 -p " & Sweet16PID password "YOURPASSWORD"
> with administrator privileges
> 
> APPLESCRIPT END
> 
> If you feel like getting 'geeky', check out the Unix 'renice' command, which
> is responsible for all of this.
> 
> Oh, this is not an original idea. I stole it from another internet guy. It
> works _wonders_ on Classic on a single CPU PPC machine. (Hint, change the
> (3) instances of 'Sweet16' above to 'TruBlueEnvironment').
> 
> AND, "YOURPASSWORD" above needs to be _your_ password, in quotes.
> 
> Hugh...
> 
>