Juliemaya
Mon Aug 29 14:55:24 CDT 2005
I am experiencing the same issue as Jay and have ever since upgrading
to Tiger a few weeks ago. I have 2GB of SDRAM and about 7GB of
available hard drive space. With the maximum amount of memory possible
in my PowerBook G4, I don't think it is a memory issue on my system. I
do have a lot of email stored in folders on the system, also important
for archival purposes for my work.
This problem is really driving me nuts; it locks up Entourage all the
time, mainly when I am drafting email. The lock up takes so long, that
I just quit trying to type and go to a different application until I
hear the hard drive stop spinning. It doesn't matter if Entourage is
the only application running or if I have three Adobe apps running
along side it, the performance issues are still the same.
Any advice or fixes are much appreciated! I've looked for additional
information, but haven't come up with any solution.
Thanks!
Julie
Barry Wainwright wrote:
> On 29/8/05 19:14, in article
> 1125339295.110172.226880@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "jay"
> <john@shulers.net> wrote:
>
> > I am increasingly having a problem where, for no apparent reason,
> > Entourage hangs up on my Powerbook while I hear a ton of hard drive
> > access, as if it was saving or sorting or reading the disk. Everything
> > works fine after it stops, but this situation occurs, now, multple
> > times per day and for a good minute or so each time. It also impacts my
> > ability to use other applications, since it kind of dominates my CPU.
> >
> > I have a lot of old emails, and also sort mail into folders to keep
> > them organized. Is there a magic point where Entourage suddenly can't
> > handle the volume of old email and starts having to constantly
> > rearrange the files, or something? I have gone and deleted many very
> > old emails, but I use the computer for my consulting work, and many of
> > the old emails are important for archival purposes.
> >
>
> The only consistent repetitive disk access you should be getting is the
> database engine carrying out a consistency check, but this is barely more
> than a 'tick' every couple of seconds.
>
> The other possibility is that you are seeing a lot of swap file access
> because the system is running low on useable memory. How much RAM do you
> have? Is the problem reduced when you restart the system and only start up
> entourage?
>
> --
> Barry Wainwright
> Microsoft MVP (see
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
> Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
> <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>