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In article <1d2trfv.177t2tjtbac8eN@p11.nas2.is3.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland)
wrote:

>Steve Rogers <thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > > Yes, but for me they vary between "a bit slow" and "so slow they miss
>> > > out characters".
>> > 
>> > The only time I've had anything *that* slow is at times like now, when
>> > MacSoup is expiring old headers (oops - I was lying.  StuffitExpander
>> > was de-hqxing a file at that moment).  Which does seem to imply that
>> > you've got a process processing away for some reason.
>> 
>> Not a visible one, though.  It seems to have something to do with being
>> on the Net even when there's no data passing either way.
>
>Oh blimey - well, it could be almost anything.  The System has lots of
>invisible sub-processes running all the time - more if you're connected
>to the net.
>[snip]
>
>> Restarting always works for me.  Oddly enough, hearing someone else has
>> found this effect happening for no apparent reason feels quite
>> reassuring.
>
>Oh, restarting my 475 always solved the problem in the immediate
>here-and-now; re-building the desktop etc., reduced the frequency with
>which the problem re-occurred.


I could make my 630 slow type by trying to edit large 1.5 M EPS files in
BBedit of Plain Text.

The cure was to increase the Get Info memory.

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