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I did get almost exactly one week of uptime after installing the OS 10.5.2 Update and Leopard Graphics Update Thursday before last, the longest I've ever gone without Spaces malfunctioning, and I was pretty much convinced that I could give Spaces a clean bill of health on that issue, but last evening the bug resurfaced. I had been pushing the computer pretty hard all week, and had four browsers open as well as about a dozen other applications. The question now is whether a reboot will give me another week of proper behavior or are we back into a spiral of diminishing stability.
Processor heating seems quite erratic with OS 10.5.2. I'm running the 1.33 GHz G4 at Reduces processor speed (presumably about 667 MHz), since switching to Automatic makes the fan cycle relentlessly, but eve at Reduced, doing anything with POP3 email sends the processor temperature spiking up. Email performance in general is as awful as ever.
Oddly, intensive browsing sessions, even with two dozen or so tabs loading in the background, don't seem to heat the processor up much. Curious.
Leopard is still a cranky and idiosyncratic kitty.
By contrast Tiger 10.4.11 on my old Pismo 550 MHz G4 is a rock of stability. I'm typing this report on it right now, and it's been running for a couple of hours and is barely warm to the touch. It hasn't been restarted in 5 weeks or so, and I'm up to "Untitled 122" in Tex Edit Plus documents. Even with its paltry 578 MB or RAM, performance is quite acceptable (especially since I'm running at only 667 MHz in my "fast" PowerBook anyway). And email works perfectly.
Progress? What's wrong with this picture?
Charles W. Moore
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