Ok, I'm mostly a PC user and use a mac at work. I often use processor intensive applications that I leave running while I do other stuff. In windows, if something is running the processor will give it all the power it needs, i.e. as much as is available after whatever it is you are doing in the "foreground" has been taken into account. On the mac, even if I just click on the desktop, and NO OTHER APPLICATIONS ARE RUNNING, the processor-intensive application suddenly starts to go at a snail's pace! What is going on? Is the processor just twiddling its thumbs? How do I sort this. I have founf the activity monitor, but that seems to do b. all....

if u r getting the beach ball or a color wheel spinning, trash your caches folder and reboot. user/libery/caches other then that it should work very guickly! also try running Disk frist aide form the os disk. let me know what happens. b101875@aol.com jel

Don't get the beach ball / wheel. I should have said, the application is running in OS9 mode, if that makes a diff.

Apple menu, System Preferences, Classic, Advanced tab, Put Classic to Sleep Never might help.

Ok, I've investigated this further. "Put Classic to sleep never" doesn't help. The weird thing is that I can bring up the activity monitor and watch the processor and memory usage of "true blue" (which I understand covers everything running in classic mode). When I am running this number crunching OS9 app, true blue is making full use of the processor. When I click on the desktop, i.e. so that the OS9 app is no longer highlighted, there is no real change in the activity monitor, i.e. it says that true blue is still using 80%+ of the processor... and yet the application slows down to a crawl! I don't understand this. It's almost as if the classic environment is hogging the processor without allocating it to the application (or something). Any ideas?

messages dont go to the top, listed by date and html number (~11778.html) memory info: ManagingMemory memory is used differently on macs, check your control panel for memory, ram and cache, and also properties on the program(s) allocation of memory, possible that some programs are sharing memory, 6B 69 6C 72 6F 79 20 77 61 73 20 68 65 72 65

oh yes, this old chestnut. OS 9, running in emmulation mode has actually crashed. Your best bet is to put in a clean install of OS 9. but it is much less stable than OS X. it WILL crash often... when it does you get trueblue running at 100% Download menumeters from www.versiontracker.com to keep an eye on this and many other things.