[captainkrypto]

Hello everyone,

I recently did a clean install of Snow Leopard on a Mini 10v with 2GB ram and a 120GB HD using Netbook Maker/Netbook Installer v.8.2. Everything seems to be working as far as the install goes, but the performance of Snow Leopard as compared to Leopard is lacking. With my previous Leopard install everything seemed to be more responsive. Now, with Snow Leopard, there seems to be a slight delay with everything, i.e. dock animation, opening/closing windows, bootup, internet browsing. The Activity Monitor does not show any processes taking up all the resources. Is anyone else experiencing this performance decrease with Snow Leopard? Are there any suggestions on what to look for that might be causing this performance decrease? If you've experienced an increase in performance with Snow Leopard, can you describe your configuration?

Thanks for the input!

Dave

[gbk]

By know means do I have any idea what I'm talking about from a technical aspect, but I think repairing permissions and rerunning NBI to regenerate the dsdt.aml helps. Run geekbench and see how your scores compare before and after.

[bubun]

Although I didn't run geekbench, I timed the bootup and shutdown time. They are darn good. 30 sec for bootup and 5 sec for shutdown. Snow leopard is running on 8GB SSD, 1GB RAM, Vostro A90 with 3GB free space (as reported by Snow Leopard.. I know they changed the calculation) The only other software I have installed so far is yahoo messenger and TV viewer plugin for itunes. Previously my bootup time were longer at about 1.5 min. Yes disk space was cramped too and I was running 10.5.4. Also I was running on MBR partition. I tested to make sure that QE/CI is enabled (this doesn't show up in System Profile anymore). Checked couple of HD videos and normal videos at youtune and Hulu. The HD videos were getting buffered because of my network connection, 800Kbps DSL and that too with wireless. Also checked that flash had set HW Acceleration for the videos.

[bmcclure937]

You may also want to specify between Mini 10v and Mini 9. Snow Leopard improved the boot time on the Mini 9 but it made it worse on the 10v.

Not quite sure why...

[captainkrypto]

Originally Posted by gbk

By know means do I have any idea what I'm talking about from a technical aspect, but I think repairing permissions and rerunning NBI to regenerate the dsdt.aml helps. Run geekbench and see how your scores compare before and after.

So I repaired the permissions and re-generated the dsdt.aml file. I did the geekbench test before and after. I got an 985 before and a 990 after. The funny thing is that according to the benchmarks on the geekbench site, I have the 2nd highest score for a Mini 10v.

Here is the report for my last run, and here are the results for the 10v.

gbk, what kind of results do you get from geekbench? Or anyone else for that matter.

As an aside, for some reason, I can't open any image file in iPhoto or Preview (so far). I can see the thumbnails, but when I attempt to open the full view, I get the following in my Console:

9/23/09 1:02:50 PM Preview[211] invalid pixel format
9/23/09 1:02:50 PM Preview[211] invalid context

I'm wondering if that is a symptom of a larger problem? Or more specifically, the cause of the decreased performance. But, I digress and will start a new post for that one.

[Crisu]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

You may also want to specify between Mini 10v and Mini 9. Snow Leopard improved the boot time on the Mini 9 but it made it worse on the 10v.

Not quite sure why...

The slow booting is obviously a problem which occures with the Mini10v.
I made a screenshot of the boot-screen. Perhaps this could help, maybe meklort has an idea.

I think at this point is a short delay

launchctl: Please convert the following to launced /etc/match_init.d/dashboardadvidsoryd.plist


here at this point is a long delay:

Warning - com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport declared no kknerel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.


After that, here is a delay, too:

AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1

I hope that meklort can fix this issue, it is very annoying that booting 10.6.1 takes much longer than 10.5.8

[starkruzr]

Booting and shutdown are faster on my 2GB Mini 9. Performance in general is about the same.

[dew912]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

You may also want to specify between Mini 10v and Mini 9. Snow Leopard improved the boot time on the Mini 9 but it made it worse on the 10v.

Not quite sure why...

Anyone have any ideas on why this is going on with the mini10v?

[funnysac]

Originally Posted by bubun

Although I didn't run geekbench, I timed the bootup and shutdown time. They are darn good. 30 sec for bootup and 5 sec for shutdown. Snow leopard is running on 8GB SSD, 1GB RAM, Vostro A90 with 3GB free space (as reported by Snow Leopard.. I know they changed the calculation) The only other software I have installed so far is yahoo messenger and TV viewer plugin for itunes. Previously my bootup time were longer at about 1.5 min. Yes disk space was cramped too and I was running 10.5.4. Also I was running on MBR partition. I tested to make sure that QE/CI is enabled (this doesn't show up in System Profile anymore). Checked couple of HD videos and normal videos at youtune and Hulu. The HD videos were getting buffered because of my network connection, 800Kbps DSL and that too with wireless. Also checked that flash had set HW Acceleration for the videos.

how has your experience been with SL on Vostro A90?

[Lobsterbib]

I just did an upgrade from Leopard on my Mini 9 and everything's working nearly perfectly. The only thing I've noticed is that the battery menu shows a "Service Battery" warning but nothing seems to be wrong with it. Other than that, I haven't noticed anything wrong.

When I did the upgrade, I went through the process of upgrading from a USB drive. When it was done it restarted and had a kernel panic. I rebooted to the USB drive again, went into utilities and ran the netbook installer and then restarted again and everything works great. I then did software update to update itunes to 9 and os x to 10.6.1. Did this and restarted. Still working excellently.

I think the upgrade freed up a little over 2GB from Leopard. I'm currently showing nearly 6GB free on my 16GB SSD. This is after monolingual and xslimmer and I don't have too many additional applications or anything, so I don't know if this is considerably good or bad, but it's good to me.