Jeremy Gugenheim
Junior Member
I have a mid 2009 MBP 17", Fully patched OSX 10.6.4, the guest is Win XP SP3.
I have tried to test this fairly carefully. After fitting more RAM (now 8GB), reinstalling OSX (because it had become unusable) and then reinstalling P6 11822 I am almost back to the same position I was with P5. I can hear the Mac disk repetitively rattling away in OSX and apps take 30sec or so to open - the mouse is fully responsive but usually only displays the spinning pizza of doom during these periods when not over the desktop. Then suddenly any clicks or drags I have tried all suddenly get processed and we're back to normal for a few minutes.
Interestingly, after installing P6 I rebooted the VM several times, all was well. I rebooted the Mac several times, all was well. I closed the lid on the Mac, let it sleep, then woke it up. THATS when the problems started. This may have been true with P5 & the first P6 install, but I can't remember. Another thing that is different since sleeping is that before, the Activity Monitor showed down to about 10MB free, after sleeping it now shows about 2GB free. Since I was rebooting a lot I would have thought that the Inactive RAM would have been returned to the pool. I realise this last bit is a little wooly, but I thought I'd mention it.
Also after waking, the bluetooth mouse wouldn't connect. I had to tell it to connect from the menu at which point it did immediately.
I notice quite a few people on the web with MBP are saying they have particular performance problems; is this a model specific thing & should I perhaps give up before wasting more days on this?
Thanks
Jeremy
I have tried to test this fairly carefully. After fitting more RAM (now 8GB), reinstalling OSX (because it had become unusable) and then reinstalling P6 11822 I am almost back to the same position I was with P5. I can hear the Mac disk repetitively rattling away in OSX and apps take 30sec or so to open - the mouse is fully responsive but usually only displays the spinning pizza of doom during these periods when not over the desktop. Then suddenly any clicks or drags I have tried all suddenly get processed and we're back to normal for a few minutes.
Interestingly, after installing P6 I rebooted the VM several times, all was well. I rebooted the Mac several times, all was well. I closed the lid on the Mac, let it sleep, then woke it up. THATS when the problems started. This may have been true with P5 & the first P6 install, but I can't remember. Another thing that is different since sleeping is that before, the Activity Monitor showed down to about 10MB free, after sleeping it now shows about 2GB free. Since I was rebooting a lot I would have thought that the Inactive RAM would have been returned to the pool. I realise this last bit is a little wooly, but I thought I'd mention it.
Also after waking, the bluetooth mouse wouldn't connect. I had to tell it to connect from the menu at which point it did immediately.
I notice quite a few people on the web with MBP are saying they have particular performance problems; is this a model specific thing & should I perhaps give up before wasting more days on this?
Thanks
Jeremy
