Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
(the faster machine taking notably longer than the slower machine to open livecode and a file). On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Ah well. I give. If you find a solution let me know, i'm curious now. *blush* This could, ahh, be explained if, perhaps, the postgres server is r

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah well. I give. If you find a solution let me know, i'm curious now. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > Hmm actually do you have anything pegging a core at 100%? Check activity > > monitor and see. Not only would that s

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Hmm actually do you have anything pegging a core at 100%? Check activity > monitor and see. Not only would that slow things down, it might cause > enough heat for a throttle. They all show low; 93% idle. For many years, xload was part of my s

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Bonner
Hmm actually do you have anything pegging a core at 100%? Check activity monitor and see. Not only would that slow things down, it might cause enough heat for a throttle. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Well I guess the next thing i'd be wondering about is if spotlight has

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Bonner
Well I guess the next thing i'd be wondering about is if spotlight has decided to go into perpetual indexing mode. Have seen this before, don't recall how I fixed it though. Some command line thing that basically tells it to wipe out the current spotlight database and rebuild, but wouldn't do this

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Might be a strange question, but.. do you have an external (usb) drive > hooked up to the faster machine and not the slower? Nope. The only thing connected is the same model of external monitor as is on the slower machine. And this happens wi

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Bonner
Might be a strange question, but.. do you have an external (usb) drive hooked up to the faster machine and not the slower? If so, can you eject/remove the drive and try again? Also, you said 16gb on the old mac, are you talking of first load of LC and your program or subsequent? (making sure thing

loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have a quad-core 27" imac, about two years old, 16gb, spinning hard drive, and an i5 quad-core processor. This retina macbook has the same memory, a touch faster clock speed on an i7, and an SSD drive. It takes under two seconds for the desktop to load livecode 5.5.5 and my program, but several