at the risk of sounding like an idiot.....

um my computer's been slowing down a little bit lately....maybe because i left it on for almost 5 days (haven't shut down in 5 days) and it's been getting slowish.

 

What applications do you have running? Any beta releases?

It's possible one of your applications has a memory leak and your machine is running out of available RAM.

You could check using Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor) and see if any apps are using a suspiciously large amount of RAM or CPU time.

 

I restarted the thing and it's all better now...thanx. for reference i was running safari, iTunes and neooffice.

 

um there IS this thing called "grep" that's eating up 528mbs...other than that nothing suspicious.

 

you have restart once it a while..

 

Either that or restart your applications. Things like web browsers and office applications eat up more and more RAM over time, so if you restart them (cmd+Q instead of cmd+W), the RAM will be freed and you're good.

Talking about grep, it's a regular expression matching command in UNIX. I guess it might be a part of neoOffice or something. Maybe try restarting your neoOffice and see if it resets its RAM usage.

 

just having it on for five days won't be the cause of slowdown, usually its memory leaks. safari is horrible for that. after awhile, it eats alot of ram.

i have had my ibook on for more then a month straight, and it was running just fine.

 

I'd definitely put my money on NeoOfiice... OpenOffice on my linux box at home is prone to memory leaks too.