I am getting very slow performance from my i7, 27" iMac and it is very hot to the touch. Is this a sign of an imminent failure coming?

I get the colour wheel constantly after most clicks of the mouse and the unit is very hot causing the fan to start running for simple operations like checking email. Just wondering if anybody had any suggestions.
Thanks...

If you have more than ten or so files or folders on your Desktop, move them, temporarily at least, somewhere else in your home folder.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except keyboard, mouse, and monitor, if applicable. Launch the usual set of applications you use when you notice the slowdown.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the page that opens.
Select the CPU tab.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Step 2
Launch the Console application in the same way as above, and select “kernel.log” from the file list. Post the dozen or so most recent messages in the log — the text, please, not a screenshot.
If there are runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Do not post many repetitions of the same message.

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Hi guys,
I recently purchased Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements 10 to edit some wedding video. I am experiencing some slow performance with the software (and random lockups for that matter). My CPU usage shows nearly nil when using the program and with IE with multiple tabs open at the moment and the Premiere Elements open, I am showing that I still have about 5GB of RAM free. However, I am still getting some slow performance from the software with random lockups. The video came from a sony HDR-CX700V camera, it is all 1080P video and there is about 3 hours worth of footage added to my current project. I imported the footage by just dragging and dropping the video folder contents into the "Project" tab within the program.
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One - your project must match your video... if you have a red line over the timeline immediately after importing the video, your project is wrong
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... a screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
For Mac http://mediainspector.massanti.com/
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html
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http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
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Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
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Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
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Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
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Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Greetings.
I bought a 500 GB Hitachi drive for my iMac intending to install it myself. But, alas, I have an iSight iMac and I think it's beyond my ability to do the job. A Mac dealer nearby can do it for me, but wants the computer for two or three days, even thought the installation takes about an hour. They will not make an appointment for me to come in with it and wait.
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TABLES: vbak,
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         erdat TYPE vbak-erdat,
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         sa_city TYPE adrc-city1,
         sa_state TYPE adrc-region,
         sa_zip TYPE adrc-post_code1,
         sa_tel TYPE adrc-tel_number,
         kunnr TYPE vbpa-kunnr,
         ag_name TYPE kna1-name1,
         ag_street TYPE kna1-stras,
         ag_city TYPE kna1-ort01,
         ag_state TYPE kna1-regio,
         ag_zip TYPE kna1-pstlz,
         ag_tel TYPE kna1-telf1,
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         we_num TYPE likp-kunnr,
         we_name TYPE kna1-name1,
         we_name2 TYPE kna1-name2,
         we_street TYPE kna1-stras,
         we_city TYPE kna1-ort01,
         we_state TYPE kna1-regio,
         we_zip TYPE kna1-pstlz,
         we_tel TYPE kna1-telf1,
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DATA: it_detail TYPE TABLE OF ty_detail WITH KEY vbeln adrnr kunnr we_num,
      wa_detail LIKE LINE OF it_detail.
DATA: addressnum TYPE vbpa-adrnr,
      temp_kunnr TYPE likp-kunnr.
* S E L E C T I O N - S C R E E N
SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK required WITH FRAME TITLE text-002.
SELECT-OPTIONS: s_vdatu FOR vbak-vdatu OBLIGATORY.    "Req delivery date
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK required.
SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK temp WITH FRAME TITLE text-001.
SELECT-OPTIONS: s_auart FOR vbak-auart OBLIGATORY.
PARAMETER: p_parfun TYPE vbpa-parvw DEFAULT 'Z5' OBLIGATORY.
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK temp.
*INITIALIZATION.
* REFRESH s_auart.
* CLEAR s_auart.
* s_auart-sign = 'I'.
* s_auart-option = 'EQ'.
* s_auart-low = 'OR'.
* APPEND s_auart.
* s_auart-low = 'ZDT'.
* APPEND s_auart.
* END OF SELECTION SCREEN
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*Main select statement.
SELECT a~vbeln a~erdat a~vdatu c~adrnr c~kunnr
    INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE it_detail
    FROM vbak AS a
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          ON b~vbeln = a~vbeln
      INNER JOIN vbpa AS c
          ON c~vbeln = b~vbeln
*          AND c~posnr = b~posnr
               WHERE a~auart IN s_auart
               AND a~vdatu IN s_vdatu
               AND c~parvw = p_parfun.
LOOP AT it_detail INTO wa_detail.
SELECT SINGLE name1 street city1 region post_code1 tel_number
      FROM adrc INTO (wa_detail-sa_name, wa_detail-sa_street, wa_detail-sa_city, wa_detail-sa_state,
                        wa_detail-sa_zip, wa_detail-sa_tel)
      WHERE addrnumber = wa_detail-adrnr.
SELECT SINGLE name1 stras ort01 regio pstlz telf1
      FROM kna1 INTO (wa_detail-ag_name, wa_detail-ag_street, wa_detail-ag_city, wa_detail-ag_state,
                        wa_detail-ag_zip, wa_detail-ag_tel)
      WHERE kunnr = wa_detail-kunnr.
SELECT SINGLE c~kunnr INTO temp_kunnr
      FROM vbpa AS a
          INNER JOIN lips AS b
            ON b~vgbel = a~vbeln
          INNER JOIN likp AS c
            ON c~vbeln = b~vbeln
            WHERE a~vbeln = wa_detail-vbeln.
wa_detail-we_num = temp_kunnr.
SELECT SINGLE name1 name2 stras ort01 regio pstlz telf1
      FROM kna1 INTO (wa_detail-we_name, wa_detail-we_name2, wa_detail-we_street, wa_detail-we_city, wa_detail-we_state,
                        wa_detail-we_zip, wa_detail-we_tel)
      WHERE kunnr = wa_detail-we_num.
SELECT SINGLE vkbur FROM knvv INTO wa_detail-vkbur
      WHERE kunnr = wa_detail-kunnr.
MODIFY it_detail FROM wa_detail.
ENDLOOP.
PERFORM display.
INCLUDE zpartner_displayf01.
Regards,
Davis

Hi Davis,
The culprit is the select inside the loop.
YOu should use for all entries instead .
I will show for one select, you do similar thing for others:
SELECT addrnumber name1 street city1 region post_code1 tel_number
      FROM adrc INTO table itab_adrc
for all entries in it_detail
      WHERE addrnumber = it_detail-adrnr.
sort itab-adrc by addrnumber.
LOOP AT it_detail INTO wa_detail.
read table it_adrc with key addrnumber = wa_detail-adrnr.
if sy-subrc = 0.
move fiedls of it_adrc into wa_detail.
endif.
ENDLOOP.

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In Numbers:
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Hi,
I've installed two instances of OIF 10.1.4.0.1 in order to create a test configuration to test XASP Attribute Sharing (i.e., we are not doing any other profiles).
Both OIF instances are using a separate instance of Sun Directory Server as its User Data Store, and both are using in-memory for Transient Data Store and have no Federation Data Store. Both OIF instances were installed similarly, using the "BASIC" installation choices, and are running on separate Redhat Linux servers.
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Jim

Hi,
I think I was able to temporarily eliminate this slow response problem. I think that the slow response problem is related to another problem that I posted about in the "Application Server - General" forum (see below, and Port 7200 conflict?
Jim
======= POSTED to Application Server - General forum ============
I think that I was able to temporarily work around this problem, plus another problem that I think is related (see: New OIF installation - Very slow response from OHS
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1) What's the effect of dms not working?
2) Is it possible to just disable dms?
I hope that Oracle support can come up with a "real" fix for both problems, but in the meantime, as long as what I did doesn't break anything else besides dms, we can at least test the OIF stuff.
Jim

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This has not always been a problem!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall acrobat, without any luck!
Thanks
Peder

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very slow performance.
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SharedLibs: 1660K resident, 0B data, 0B linkedit.
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PhysMem: 695M wired, 2175M active, 1083M inactive, 3953M used, 13M free.
VM: 250G vsize, 1093M framework vsize, 699065(68) pageins, 1724738(881) pageouts
Networks: packets: 70104/55M in, 66648/10M out.
Disks: 966630/9347M read, 327765/18G written.
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4058 top          5.2   00:03.32 1/1 0    28   29    912K   216K   1620K
4055 bash         0.0   00:00.02 1    0    20   23    356K   216K   1112K
4052 CVMCompiler 0.0   00:00.30 1    0    30   69    7780K 220K   16M
4051 login        0.0   00:00.08 2    1    33   63    928K   216K   2184K
4049 Terminal     0.3   00:01.34 7    3    128+ 164+ 7580K+ 13M    15M+
4042 ocspd        0.0   00:00.02 1    0    26   33    420K+ 276K   1376K+
4041 WebProcess   0.0   00:04.35 7    3    119 201   16M-   10M    26M-
4039 Safari       1.1   00:09.44 12   3    193 413   47M-   20M    81M-
3958 spindump_age 0.0   00:00.02 2    2    38   55    356K   220K   1100K
3956 spindump     1.3   00:42.93 16/1 13   228 145   46M+   15M    53M+
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InDesign CC 2014 very slow performance when dragging images and changing text

InDesign CC 2014 very slow performance when dragging images and changing text.
Running on 2010 Macpro 2.4GHz. 8GB RAM. Any solutions? I've read through many forums on this and tried several fixes.

Have exact same issue on my Windows 7 machine. Resetting preferences is a workaround.
So I start InDesign whilst holding down these keys.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Windows) or Cmd + Ctrl + Opt + Shift (Mac)
Whilst inDesign is usable again with this fix- I have to do it every time so it trashes all my preferences so NOT GOOD long term fix. Otherwise InDesign freezes and can only be stopped by forcing a quit.
I have manually deleted the preference files and I have created a brand new admin account - but still no luck - will be onto support tomorrow

I am getting very slow performance from my i7, 27" iMac and it is very hot to the touch. Is this a sign of an imminent failure coming?

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