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For some weeks my Macbook has seemed slow.
To see if I could fix this I started doing all the tricks with repair permissions, iDefrag. I've also checked the system.log (with console) and I've removed any problems in the log. None of the efforts has changed anything. It's still slow.
Finally today I found xbench (and geekbench - but stay away from the last one) and ran a test on the system. The result is scary .. Overal score is 63.74 where an old Powermac is index 100. My Disk Test peaks at 11.82 where the Powermac is 100.
Full test result here:
Results 63.74
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro5,2
Drive Type ST9500420ASG
CPU Test 214.08
GCD Loop 357.10 18.82 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 171.68 4.08 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 141.79 4.68 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 332.58 57.91 Mops/sec
Thread Test 362.23
Computation 540.72 10.95 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 272.33 11.72 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 195.05
System 253.65
Allocate 512.48 1.88 Malloc/sec
Fill 192.71 9369.83 MB/sec
Copy 213.36 4406.78 MB/sec
Stream 158.45
Copy 150.29 3104.09 MB/sec
Scale 149.68 3092.36 MB/sec
Add 166.75 3552.17 MB/sec
Triad 169.11 3617.73 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 244.45
Line 211.85 14.10 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 279.39 83.41 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 236.72 19.30 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 248.63 6.27 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 255.88 16.01 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 171.92
Spinning Squares 171.92 218.09 frames/sec
User Interface Test 368.28
Elements 368.28 1.69 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 11.82
Sequential 10.36
Uncached Write 19.86 12.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 18.24 10.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 4.20 1.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 23.42 11.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 13.74
Uncached Write 5.27 0.56 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 23.61 7.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 33.99 0.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 33.92 6.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
While doing the test no other program ran (i disabled everything I could) and no external hardware was plugged in.
Please help.
/Jesper Ordrup

What does Disk Utility say about the SMART status of your hard drive? You may also want to download and run [SMART Utility|http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php] and see how it evaluates your drive.
The 250GB, 5400RPM drive in my MBP 5,1 (the 15" unibody model immediately preceding your 17") scores about 40 on the overall disk test in XBench, so there is clearly something wrong with your drive, which should be faster than mine.
How much free space is available on the drive?

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