Jacken’s Blog

I’ve been generally happy with tiger on my powerbook. The Spotlight search really has helped me finding my stuff. But I’ve had problems with slowdowns after working with my computer for a couple of days. I never turn of my computer, just putting it to sleep when I’m done working, and after a couple of days the machine would get slower and slower. I finally gave up and started to search for the problem. Turned out that Dashboard (when loaded) ate memory like a hog! My guess is that their is a memory leak when using some of the widgets. But for me, Dashboard is to slow to be of practical use for me, so I opted to disable it. And now the machine works great again.

If your interested in disable Dashboard, do the following:

Open Terminal (you’ll find it under Applications/Utilities)

Type defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

To enable it again, write defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO