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cheers.

It's only ASDM-IDM on the MAC that is having issues.
More specifically, the issues only happen when running IDM within ASDM on MAC.  On the MAC if I run IDM by itself as suggested via https://sensor-url then it works fine.  Looks like an ASDM issue then, no?
Sensor info:
Sensor up-time is 4 days.
Platform: ASA-SSM-20
Booted Partition: application
Partition: application
  Build Version: 7.0(2)E4
  Host:
    Realm Keys      key1.0
  Signature Definition:
    Signature Update      S491.0    2010-05-19
  Os Version: 2.4.30-IDS-smp-bigphys
  Applications
    MainApp
      B-BEAU_2009_OCT_15_08_07_7_0_1_111  2009-10-15T08:09:06-0500  ipsbuild
      Execution State: running
    AnalysisEngine
      BE-BEAU_E4_2010_MAR_25_02_09_7_0_2  2010-03-25T02:11:05-0500  ipsbuild
      Execution State: running
    CollaborationApp
      B-BEAU_2009_OCT_15_08_07_7_0_1_111  2009-10-15T08:09:06-0500  ipsbuild
      Execution State: running
  Installed Upgrades
    Upgrade name: IPS-K9-7.0-2-E4
    Time Installed: March 25, 2010 12:00:07 AM
    Upgrade name: IPS-sig-S491-req-E4.pkg
    Time Installed: May 20, 2010 8:02:13 AM
  Next Downgrade:
Partition: recovery
  Build Version: 1.1 - 7.0(2)E4
PEP Udi Module
  description ASA 5500 Series Security Services Module-20
  pid ASA-SSM-20
  vid V02
  sn XXXXXXX
Memory usage
  usedBytes=1029808128
  freeBytes=1063792640
  totalBytes=2093600768
Disk usage
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  application-data is using 46.1M out of 166.8M bytes of available disk space (29% usage)
  boot is using 41.6M out of 68.6M bytes of available disk space (64% usage)
  application-log is using 123.5M out of 513.0M bytes of available disk space (24% usage)

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    I am using a number of Adobe programs on my new Windows 8 64 bit system, with 16 gigs of ram, an Intel Core i5 2.67ghz, and AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 gig. All the programs (including After Effects and Illustrator) work very well with the exception of Photoshop CS6 64 bit, which has extremely slow performance with Use Graphics Processor enabled in my preferences (which Photoshop selects by default). If I turn off Use Graphics Processor, the slow performance vanishes. If I change Drawing Mode to Basic, there might be a slightly detectable improvement over Normal and Advanced, but it's still horribly slow. The refresh rate seems to be just a few frames per second. Everything is slow: brushes, zooming, panning, everything.
    I've tried changing the settings I've seen suggested elsewhere: I switched Cache levels to 2, history states to 10, and tile size to 128k. No effect. Photoshop is currently at the default of using 60% of available ram. Efficiency has remained at 100% throughout all my tests. Also, this slow performance has affected me from the moment I installed Photoshop; it didn't crop up after previous good performance. The problem exists regardless of the size or number of documents I have open. Performance is still terrible even when I create a 500 x 500 pixel blank new canvas and try a simple task like drawing with the brush.
    Photoshop is fully up to date, and so are my graphics drivers (Catalyst version 13.1). Any help would be greatly appreciated; at the moment performance is so bad in Photoshop that it's unusable with graphics acceleration enabled. Thanks in advance for replying.
    Photoshop System Info:
    Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
    Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
    Version: 6.2
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
    Physical processor count: 4
    Processor speed: 2665 MHz
    Built-in memory: 16379 MB
    Free memory: 13443 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 14697 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 2
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    OpenCL Version: 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
    OpenGL Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Display: 1
    Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920
    Video Card Number: 2
    Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Driver Version:
    Driver Date:
    Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
    Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
    Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Number: 1
    Video Card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Driver Version: 9.12.0.0
    Driver Date: 20121219000000.000000-000
    Video Card Driver:
    Video Mode:
    Video Card Caption: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Video Card Memory: 0 MB
    Serial number: 90970078453021833509
    Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
    Temporary file path: C:\Users\RAFFAE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
    Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
    Scratch volume(s):
      C:\, 931.5G, 534.8G free
    Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
    Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
    Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
    Installed components:
       ACE.dll   ACE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2012/01/25-10:04:55   66.1025012   66.1025012
       AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   6.0.0  
       AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2012/09/10-12:31:21   5.0.4   79.517869
       AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.419471   66.419471
       AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   7.0.0.1686  
       AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   6,0,29,0  
       AGM.dll   AGM 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,7,0,56  
       aif_core.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ocl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ogl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   6.0.0.75 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 16 2012 18:00:00)   1.000000
       ARE.dll   ARE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       Bib.dll   BIB 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       boost_date_time.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_signals.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_system.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       cg.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  
       cgGL.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  
       CIT.dll   Adobe CIT   2.1.0.20577   2.1.0.20577
       CoolType.dll   CoolType 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       data_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       dvaaudiodevice.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvacore.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvamarshal.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvamediatypes.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvaplayer.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvatransport.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dvaunittesting.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       dynamiclink.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo 2012/01/17-15:11:19   66.145433   66.145433
       filter_graph.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       hydra_filters.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       icucnv40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       icudt40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       image_compiler.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_runtime.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.236923   66.236923
       libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)  
       libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  
       LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1681  
       mediacoreif.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       MPS.dll   MPS 2012/02/03-10:33:13   66.495174   66.495174
       msvcm80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcm90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       msvcp100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  
       msvcp80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcp90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       msvcr100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  
       msvcr80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6910  
       msvcr90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  
       pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04  
       Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       PlugPlug.dll   Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlug Standard Dll (64 bit)   3.0.0.383  
       PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       SCCore.dll   ScCore 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       ScriptUIFlex.dll   ScriptUIFlex 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       svml_dispmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  
       tbb.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  
       tbbmalloc.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   3, 0, 2010, 0406  
       updaternotifications.dll   Adobe Updater Notifications Library   6.0.0.24 (BuildVersion: 1.0; BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   6.0.0.24
       WRServices.dll   WRServices Friday January 27 2012 13:22:12   Build 0.17112   0.17112
    Required plug-ins:
       3D Studio 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Accented Edges 13.0
       Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0
       Angled Strokes 13.0
       Average 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Bas Relief 13.0
       BMP 13.0
       Camera Raw 7.3
       Chalk & Charcoal 13.0
       Charcoal 13.0
       Chrome 13.0
       Cineon 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Clouds 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Collada 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Color Halftone 13.0
       Colored Pencil 13.0
       CompuServe GIF 13.0
       Conté Crayon 13.0
       Craquelure 13.0
       Crop and Straighten Photos 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 13.0
       Crosshatch 13.0
       Crystallize 13.0
       Cutout 13.0
       Dark Strokes 13.0
       De-Interlace 13.0
       Dicom 13.0
       Difference Clouds 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Diffuse Glow 13.0
       Displace 13.0
       Dry Brush 13.0
       Eazel Acquire 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Embed Watermark 4.0
       Entropy 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Extrude 13.0
       FastCore Routines 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Fibers 13.0
       Film Grain 13.0
       Filter Gallery 13.0
       Flash 3D 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Fresco 13.0
       Glass 13.0
       Glowing Edges 13.0
       Google Earth 4 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Grain 13.0
       Graphic Pen 13.0
       Halftone Pattern 13.0
       HDRMergeUI 13.0
       IFF Format 13.0
       Ink Outlines 13.0
       JPEG 2000 13.0
       Kurtosis 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Lens Blur 13.0
       Lens Correction 13.0
       Lens Flare 13.0
       Liquify 13.0
       Matlab Operation 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Maximum 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mean 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Measurement Core 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Median 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mezzotint 13.0
       Minimum 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       MMXCore Routines 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Mosaic Tiles 13.0
       Multiprocessor Support 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Neon Glow 13.0
       Note Paper 13.0
       NTSC Colors 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Ocean Ripple 13.0
       Oil Paint 13.0
       OpenEXR 13.0
       Paint Daubs 13.0
       Palette Knife 13.0
       Patchwork 13.0
       Paths to Illustrator 13.0
       PCX 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Photocopy 13.0
       Photoshop 3D Engine 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Picture Package Filter 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Pinch 13.0
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       Plastic Wrap 13.0
       PNG 13.0
       Pointillize 13.0
       Polar Coordinates 13.0
       Portable Bit Map 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Poster Edges 13.0
       Radial Blur 13.0
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       Range 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Read Watermark 4.0
       Reticulation 13.0
       Ripple 13.0
       Rough Pastels 13.0
       Save for Web 13.0
       ScriptingSupport 13.1.2
       Shear 13.0
       Skewness 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Smart Blur 13.0
       Smudge Stick 13.0
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       STL 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       Sumi-e 13.0
       Summation 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
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       Vanishing Point 13.0
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       Variations 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
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       Wireless Bitmap 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00)
       ZigZag 13.0
    Optional and third party plug-ins:
       DAZ Studio 3D Bridge 12.0
       DazUpdateScene 12.0
    Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
    Flash:
       Mini Bridge
       Kuler
    Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

    Great news!
    I followed your suggestion, Noel, and uninstalled my drivers with the Catalyst Uninstall Utility (which I hadn't used before), rebooted, reinstalled Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7, rebooted, deleted the PS Prefs, started PS, and now the performance is radically improved!
    It baffles me why I would need to do a clean driver uninstall in a new system environment that has only ever had this video card, and is only a few months old, but that action seems to be what's improved the situation. Note that because I deleted the PS preferences, the good performance now occurs with the default Use Graphics Processor enabled, and Drawing Mode set to Advanced (with every feature in the Advanced dialog checked except 30bit display).
    Having no reference point, I can't tell for sure if performance is as good as it theoretically ought to be for my system specs, but using the standard 13px brush is only slightly laggy behind the cursor, even if I become reckless and squiggle on the canvas violently. It wasn't just sluggish response before: Photoshop seemed to be in pain trying to draw the line segments as it laboured to catch up to the cursor. That is pretty much gone now.
    Much more tellingly, zooming and panning the canvas is like it ought to be, responsive and clean, more or less like it was for me in CS4 with my old Nvidia 9600GT. The poor performance with zooming and panning was the most worrying aspect of the issue. It's a great relief to see these working more properly now.
    I have to confess I'm a little embarrassed to have drug you through all this hassle only to discover that something as rudimentary as properly cleaning out the drivers would be the apparent solution. I never would have imagined that doing that, with such a new and stable system, would make any difference, since I don't have a legacy of older drivers dotting my hard drive. In any event, I'm really grateful that you guys took the time to try to help me.
    In the interest of completeness, here's the relevant portion of my system info after doing the reinstall steps I mentioned above:
    Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
    Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
    Version: 6.2
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
    Physical processor count: 4
    Processor speed: 2665 MHz
    Built-in memory: 16379 MB
    Free memory: 13680 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 14695 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 1024K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    OpenCL Version: 3.0
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
    OpenGL Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Display: 1
    Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920
    Video Card Number: 2
    Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Driver Version:
    Driver Date:
    Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
    Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
    Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
    Video Card Number: 1
    Video Card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Driver Version: 12.100.17.0
    Driver Date: 20130226000000.000000-000
    Video Card Driver:
    Video Mode:
    Video Card Caption: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
    Video Card Memory: 0 MB
    As you can see, the Microsoft Basic Render Driver still appears as a Video Card in the list. This presumably has something to do with Windows 8, and I really don't know if its presence here is still a sign that my card is not being used to its optimal capability. I have a hunch that the slight lag that I am still experiencing with the brush when Use Graphics Processor is on -- totally absent with the acceleration turned off -- implies that Photoshop is still unable to take maximum advantage of my card. I would assume that the brush tool should be more responsive with acceleration on than off, in a rig without any issues, but that's just assumption on my part. If you turn off Use Graphics Processor on your systems, is the brush tool more or less responsive?
    But again, panning the canvas with the hand tool is now extremely responsive, without any screen tearing or visible lag, and that's a massive improvement over the total meltdown of performance I was suffering from before.
    Thanks again very much for your help. I'm grateful to all of you who took the time to chime in.

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    bos.64bit 5.2.0.42.
    (주) IBM 엔지니어에게 확인 결과 이 Patch 안에 AIX5L 32bit 용과 64bit
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    Reference Documents
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