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From: Richard Maine on 25 Sep 2009 12:30
John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> Why in the name of all that's Holy would you want to have TM enabled
> when you're playing games?

Probably because that's sort of what TM advertizes - that after you set
it up, you pretty much forget about it. You aren't supposed to have to
switch it on and off depending on what you are doing.... but that's
probably what I'd recommend for games.

Or I personally tweak TM to do its backups only every 4 hours instead of
every hour (ways to do this are all over the web), whch minimizes the
interference.

I don't use .Mac, so I have no idea what the issues there are (I didn't
even recognize PreferencesSyncClient until that connection was
mentioned).

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From: P. Sture on 27 Sep 2009 09:40
In article <4abf0481$0$2023$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>,
Kevin McMurtrie <kevinmcm(a)sonic.net> wrote:

> It helped a lot in my older Intel Mac Pro. 10.6.1, LaCie 5big 2.2.3
> firmware upgrade, local disk upgrade to RAID, 5GB RAM, and Gigabit
> Ethernet with 9000 byte frames comes out to a 4-10 second TM incremental
> update with no noticeable stalling. The poster revealed that it's for
> an iMac so there's not much to be done there.

Not quite in the same league, but my G3 iBook's internal drive died
several years ago and I've been running it on a pair of LaCie Firewire
disks ever since. Now I know that I'm short on RAM on my PowerBook, but
if I boot both systems at the same time, the 600 MHZ iBook running Tiger
comes up far faster than the 1.5 GHz PowerBook booted from its internal
disk and running Leopard.

I don't notice any significant performance drop when Time Machine (with
a Firewire backup disk) kicks in, though I'm not running any games here.

Perhaps I'm comparing Apples with, er, Apples here :-)

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Paul Sture
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