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Quit the Finder to give Virtual PC a speed boost
Authored by: vogunaescht on Oct 07, '03 11:10:36AM

How can this be? On my Mac, the Finder doesn't use any CPU time if it doesn't do anything, so It won't speed up VPC if I quit it.
Can you provide any CPU usage measurement to back this statement?
Maybe you have installed some contextual menu items or services that consume CPU time while the finder is running.
To definitely improve speed in VPC close the Virtual PC List window. It constantly updates a small preview of the active virtual machines and this definitely does consume CPU time.



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Quit the Finder to give Virtual PC a speed boost
Authored by: rhamm on Oct 07, '03 09:11:47PM

Looking at both top and ProcessViewer, the Finder CPU usage is zero. How amazing, it's like that all the time. Therefore, there should be no speed increase.

BUT, there is. I think it is the RAM, as Typhoon14 said. My argument: the increase is really only noticeable when playing games or using Adobe Illustrator or LimeWire, which are all, I believe, very memory-intensive.

Because it is relevant, I have 256mb of the stuff.



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