phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (10/17/89)
Hi, I have started seeing a strange problem with Stuffit 1.5.1 on my 5mb Mac II. When I unstiff things, I notice it now does it in 'slow motion'. I mean, The completion guages flicker at me in stead of quickly updating as each section of a file is completed....It seems to be taking about 10 times the normal time to unstuff a file..... I haven't added any new INITs, this just started happening...Any ideas? ================================================================== Phil Hunt "Wherever you go, there you are!!!" Digital Equipment Corporation Phone: (508)486-2164 ENET: VAXPHW::PHIL USENET: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com MOREUSENET: phil%vaxphw.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com EVENMORE: ....!decwrl!dec-vaxphw!phil
dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (10/17/89)
phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes: > [talks about how all of sudden stuffit's slow and the display flickers] I've noticed that this happens when you've got the "allow background" item checked in stuffit's preferences dialog. go to preferences and un-check this item and you'll be up and running fast again in no time. hope this helps. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | Graduating in March of 1990, with a BS in Computer Science & need a Job. | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) (10/17/89)
In article <5450@shlump.nac.dec.com> phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
[slowdown of Stuffit observed]
The "Allow Background Tasks" option is checked in the Preferences...
menu item under the Option menu. Uncheck it to revert to the speed you
are used to.
On a related note: I would expect Stuffit to perform almost as well
with this option checked as without if no other programs are using CPU
cycles in the background. This is not the case, though. Does anyone
have any clues why?
Edgar
(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) (10/17/89)
Phil, I don't know if this is related, since you don't say if your II has an FDHD in it, but I have noticed that StuffIt literally CREEPS when I unStuff files to my SE/30's FDHD. Same files unStuffed to an 800K floppy in the FDHD work fine--I should clarify and say it is slow to 1.4 MEG disks *only*. Has anyone else seen this behavior? .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | UUCP: {rosevax, crash, orator}!orbit!pnet51!pj | Working with idiots keeps | | ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!pj@nosc.mil | my life interesting... | | INET: pj@pnet51.cts.com | | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'