High disk activity slowing down all other processes

[Frank Renner]

Hi,

on my PB G4/667, Entourage frequently (let me say every 2-3 days) starts to
do SOMETHING that slows down performance dramatically (Entourage is not
usable anymore, all other processes are handicapped and disk is operating
with high activity). The problem is that this is running for nearly 10
minutes!!! It is not a schedule but something that seems to run in
background like some indexing that Entourage seems to need from time to
time. Any hints on what that might be? Any workarounds?

Thanks,
Frank Renner

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Frank,

on my PB G4/667, Entourage frequently (let me say every 2-3 days) starts to
do SOMETHING that slows down performance dramatically (Entourage is not
usable anymore, all other processes are handicapped and disk is operating
with high activity). The problem is that this is running for nearly 10
minutes!!!

Do you have large projects in Entourage (possibly including numerous
contacts and their e-mails) ???


Corentin

 

[Frank Renner]

Yes, but what to do? Archive and delete them all?

Thanks,
Frank

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Yes, but what to do? Archive and delete them all?

You can remove the contacts (and their associated e-mails) from the
project. Of course you can also archive and remove them.

At first I created projects for some discussion lists, adding the
contacts from the list to the projects. As e-mails piled up, it ended up
tremendously slowing down a lot of operations. I finally gave up on the
idea and dI stick to filters and smart boxes now.
..

Corentin