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From: picard@sbanet.UUCP (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: System 7 slowness
Message-ID: <596@sbanet.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:05:16 GMT
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Reply-To: picard@sbanet.UUCP (Donald Burr)
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In article <1007@utsmips.csd.uts.EDU.AU> james@uts.EDU.AU (J Boswell) writes:
>morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) writes:
>
>>Hi all,
>
>>is it just me or has everyone noticed that system 7.0 is very slow. I can
>>almost count the characters of a window one by one as the OS builds it
>>up.
>
>Well I've had pretty bad response too. One thought for you though -
>have you got "calculate folder sizes' turned on in the Views control panel ?
>That and one of the other options, (forget which) is known to slow the 
>Finder (tm) down considerably.
>
>James

Another thing I've noticed is that file sharing majorly slows me down.
When you first startup, it takes about 5-10 minutes (on my system) of continual
disk access, and things just run more sluggishly.

Another thing to watch for, is if you've got a custom size and/or font in the
Views control panel that you're using for Finder views, if that font and size
doesn't exist in Bitmap form, the OS images it from TrueType, and that can get
really slow, depending on how complex of a font you're trying to image.

If you really can't live without that particular font and size, then I sug-
gest you use a program like Bitfont to make a bitmap of that size, and stick
that in the System Folder.  It saves mucho time.

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