FCP slowing down in timeline

FCP is slowing down in the timeline. In other words, it does not respond instantly as I jump around on the timeline (it does fine in the viewer.) Yet, I have very little in the timeline. I've closed other sequence tabs and reduced the display to its most basic (no waveform display, et cetera.) Why would FCP slow down so easily? What slows down FCP the most?
thanks,
m

There are many possible cause that can affect performance.
Please do not refrain from posting more info about your settings, format you are working with etc.
Problems may occur when for example your preferences get corrupted ([FCPRescue|http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14729] usually can help in such case) or in a completely different scenario when your audio is not 48khz 16bit but lower or when using audio files or video files that FCP does not like very much.
Running several demanding applications (i.e. Motion) with low RAM availability can cause slow performance. Using an external drive via USB is another bad idea.
G.

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