IMac running so slow
It takes so long for my computer to boot up, open applications. i.e. Switching from firefox to photoshop, I get the beachball for 40-50 seconds every time. Is there something I can do to help this situation. It's not just firefox & photoshop, it's all my applications. When I launch entourage it takes a good 45-60 seconds to load. It's so frustrating not to mention time consuming. Any suggestions???
Slick2010 wrote:
Would an external drive connected to the computer have anything to do with its performance even if I am not copying/pulling from the external drive?
an easy way to find out would be to disconnect the external and see if the problem persists
what you might want to try is this:
(a) download the [_*Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update (Combo)*_|http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1048]
(b) reboot into _*safe mode*_
(c) launch *disk utility* (in applications/utilities), +verify disk+ and +repair permissions+
(d) run the combo
(e) after running the combo, let the Mac reboot normally and +repair permissions+ again.
also, do you have good backups of your important data (time machine backups, clone(s) of your startup disk) ? you just might want to prepare for the +worst case scenario+ (a failing HD).
JGG
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Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.ARM.de23d1e3aa2d00ce38d73f10fcbdc8dcaaaf6be989610710a1ddda77.plist
com.adobe.ARM.df0ab5bbe6f698196fcc21e3c1e66dcb758bd911f4d637272d9d8109.plist
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com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
com.apple.serveralertproxy.plist
com.hp.printerAgent.plist
com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist
com.mlbam.nexdef.core.NexdefLoader.plist
com.splashtop.streamer-for-user.plist
com.spotify.webhelper.plist
info.lokiware.attachmenttamer.cleanup.plist
net.infinite-labs.SIMBLEnablerForSandboxedApps.plist -
Why is my iMac running so slow and crashing all the time?
My iMac is last years model, running on Lion OS X. It's one year old, I had it Christmas 2011. It's 1TB with 4GB RAM. It's partitioned with Bootcamp, Windows 7, so it's 100GB Win7 and 900GB OS X. I'm only using 350GB of RAM altogether.
It's started running ridiuclously slow. Firstly, it was just when I started to work with large files in Photoshop (CS5.1). I was attempting to work on a piece for college which size is A2 (594 x 420), but it was painfully slow, so I literally stopped working and started researching into how to improve performance. I deleted a lot of software that I didn't need, verified and repaired discs, nothing seemed to work.
Now Photoshop isn't the only problem. Certain websites aren't loading when they're working fine on my iPhone and on my iMac, such as Facebook, Google, but websites like Twitter and Gmail are working? I downloaded Avast and started to scan for a virus, but then the deadly annoying pop up saying "You need to restart you Mac, hold down the power button etc" popped up... I dunno what I'm supposed to do now, and I dunno why it's acting like this. It's been fine. Think it's a virus? I'm scanning now but nothing found as of yet.
If anybody knows what's going on, or if this has happened to them, please let me know! I know I could just book a Genius appointment and take it to the Apple store, but I have university interviews in a couple of days, no external hard drives to put my work on, and it's 27" which is hard to lug around town...
Thank-you.If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out these instructions.
Launch the Console 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 Console in the icon grid.
Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the entire contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post shutdownStall, spin, or hang reports. -
Just bought my wife the new iMac (20" 2.4GHz). Connected her old G4 Mini in firewire mode. Transferred her applications and files. Everything is working but the computer is very slow. Much slower than my version 2 macbook. It surfs so slow and Safari has locked up several times. This is on her regular websites not something new. All her apps on the mini were the PowerPC variety and not universal binaries. Could this be an issue? I had Firefox that was optimized for the G4 processor on the mini. It worked on the iMac but was slow. I just installed the latest universal binary Firefox and it is faster but the hard drive is thrashing constantly. Now it only has 1 GB of RAM (I will upgrade) but still, I am only running 1 app... Was importing from a G4 a bad idea?
KarlI ACTUALLY think so!
I have the same iMac you have and it's SUPER fast! and I also have just 1GB Ram... but I'll tell you what I did...
First, I went online and got *Universal drivers* for my *Scanner, Wacom pen tablet* etc... then I got the Universal versions of *CockTail, SuperDuper, HandBreak, Stuffit, Adium, Firefox*... time consuming I know but if they were AVAILABLE for Intel... it didn't seem to be a good idea to SAVE time... just an afternoon that maybe would have cost me a couple days trying to fix future compatibility issues...
After doing that, I installed ONLY three *PPC Apps*, the ones I really need: *Photoshop CS, Flash and Dreamweaver 8*... actually my website is all in Flash, I only use Dreamweaver as a FTP program to upload my files...
Both Flash and Photoshop will run under ROSETTA... even taking lots of RAM, they still run faster than in my old iMac G5 with 2GB Ram... *duo to the Intel processor*...
At least I know that ALL DRIVERS are the original Intel... the iMac is super fast.. I just moved from ATT&T (disgusting 300 KBPS) to ComCast reaching *5 MBPS* on both the *G4 mini* and the *2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac*...
Such a great experience, the large clear screen... a fast machine and a great connection...
If I were you I'd spend a Sunday *re-installing Leopard* and looking for the *Intel version of some Apps*... you don't have to sit in front of the computer all day... you can load the installation DVD and open a beer and come back after a while and download Leopard updates (and open another beer...) cook and listen to a good music... do little by little one day!
If I have a major problem I always re-install the OS... I can't work on a sluggish machine! Better a day doing it than suffering for a LONNNNNNNNNG time!
Cheers!
: ) -
Late 2009 iMac running sporadically slow
Hi I was wondering if anyone could help
I have a late 2009 iMac with 4gb of Ram which is running intermittently slow and hanging. It has periods when it works fine and then others where the icons bounce for ages before opening and the little spinning circles arrive when even doing the most basic of activities. I don't have hundreds of things open at once.
Its hardwired to the network so even if streaming iCloud music it shouldn't really cause the system to hang.
Its upgraded to Yosemite, but these issues were pre-exisiting and its been slow for a while.
Use dropbox and appreciate big syncs will have an issue, but at the moment that is all up to date.
Below is a system report and:
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated 7 November 2014 11:46:42 GMT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac10,1
1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
empty empty empty empty
BANK 1/DIMM0
empty empty empty empty
BANK 0/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1920 x 1080
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 8 days 1:59:54
Disk Information: ℹ️
WDC WD5000AAKS-40V2B0 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (272.34 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/drivers
[not loaded] com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (4.1.46f67) Support
/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.6) Support
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.2.6) Support
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.2.6) Support
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.6) Support
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.FTDI.driver.FTDIUSBSerialDriver (2.2.14) Support
[not loaded] com.MCCI.SLAB_USBtoUART (1.02.0f2) Support
[not loaded] com.aliph.driver.jstub (1.1.2 - SDK 10.7) Support
[not loaded] com.bodymedia.codelessAB185.kext (1) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSB (1.2.2 - SDK 10.5) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/MotMobileUSB.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileMS (1.0.0 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileMTP (1.2.2 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBLAN (1.2.2 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBLANMerge (1.2.2 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBSwch (1.2.2 - SDK 10.5) Support
Startup Items: ℹ️
VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist
[failed] com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert.plist
[failed] com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent.xpc.plist
[failed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[failed] com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
[failed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist
[failed] com.apple.nehelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
[failed] com.apple.periodic-monthly.plist
[failed] com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[running] com.conduit.loader.agent.plist Support
[running] com.hp.devicemonitor.plist Support
[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist Support
[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist Support
[loaded] com.motorola.MDMUpdater.plist Support
[running] com.motorola.motohelper.plist Support
[loaded] com.motorola.motohelperUpdater.plist Support
[running] jp.co.canon.CUPSCAPT.BG.plist Support
[running] jp.co.canon.CUPSPS2.BG.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.hp.mss.clientService.plist Support
[running] com.hp.mss.VDProxy.plist Support
[running] com.icyblaze.iDocumentHelper.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist Support
[invalid?] com.logmein.raupdate.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[invalid?] com.motorola-mobility.mmcfgd.plist Support
[invalid?] com.sonos.smbbump.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist Support
[invalid?] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
[invalid?] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
ScanSnap Manager Application (/Applications/ScanSnap/ScanSnap Manager.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
FlowSync Application (/Applications/FlowSync.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
SkyCaddiePlugIn: Version: 1.02 Support
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 2.6.1f3 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin1016264: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 - SDK 10.4 Support
NP2020Player: Version: 5.0.4.0 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
LogMeIn: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101749: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 - SDK 10.4 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
LogMeInSafari32: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.1 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.0.61118.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
hpHomeClient: Version: 1.0 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Growl Support
MusicManager Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 499.25 GB Disk used: 226.91 GB
Destinations:
My Book [Local]
Total size: 0 B
Total number of backups: 0
Oldest backup: -
Last backup: -
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 0 B < (Disk used 226.91 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
8% Mail
3% com.apple.InputMethodKit.UserDictionary
2% coreaudiod
2% WindowServer
1% bird
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
172 MB Mail
137 MB iTunes
107 MB WindowServer
103 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
82 MB Microsoft Word
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
51 MB Free RAM
1.09 GB Active RAM
1.04 GB Inactive RAM
766 MB Wired RAM
48.33 GB Page-ins
1.65 GB Page-outsWhen you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console 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 Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. -
IMac running very slow; how can I fix it?
My iMac is running so slow, I can hardly use it all. All kinds of spinning balls, etc. I don't even know where to look to diagnose. If I restart, it will be faster for awhile. Both Safari and Firefox are running very slow...or not at all. I have repaired permissions and hard drive. I have dumped permissions for Safari and Finder and anything else that seemed involved. I checked my memory....this is the report I got. Does the fact that the first one say "disabled" mean anything? I will appreciate help you can give me.
Memory Slots:
ECC: Disabled
BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0xCE00000000000000
Part Number: 0x4D342037305432393533455A332D43453620
Serial Number: 0x772E336D
BANK 1/DIMM1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x2C00000000000000
Part Number: 0x3848544631323836344844592D3636374531
Serial Number: 0xE00CB01CQuestions and Answers:
How full is your Mac's hard drive? * Capacity: 248.92 GB. * Available:175.18. *Used 73.75GB on disk.
How many applications do you run simultaneously in the background while working in another application? *Not many. I try to remember to quit open apps especially when the computer runs slowly. I always have open Calendar, Mail, Safari.
Do you run any antivirus software on your Mac? Antivirus software can slow down the normal operation of OS X. *I have an anti virus but I do not let it run. I turn in on to check files and email now and then.
Do you run any "crapware" like Mackeeper or any other type of so called hard drive "cleaning" apps? *No, I have none.
One thing I notice is that when I turn it off at night, it runs very well the next day until I've been on it for a few hours then it gets really bad. Last night, it wouldn't work at all so I gave up and turned it off. This afternoon I turned it back on and it has been working very well ever since.
Thanks for looking at this. I have never checked my hard drive before so I didn't know how much it had on it, but it doesn't seem like it is too full. -
Just upgraded to Lion now iMac runs super slow.
Things were running just fine now everything from the internet to iPhoto is running super slow. It hangs for about 10 seconds then moves on. Any thoughts on what I can check to clean up performance?
Thanks,
AndyYou should look at the Activity Monitor (located in /Applications/Utilities) to see what applications and processes are using up your Mac's resources.
Best of luck. -
I have recently purchased an iMac (6 months old) and I am running 5 applications most of the time: three browsers (safari, chrome and firefox), MS Word and MS Excel. I do run a lot tabs open on the browsers and leave them on for days (about 12 tabs on each browswer). I have to use word and excel for work and need to leave them open with several documents at a time.
here are my problems... after a while, even when I restart, sites wont load, word wont respond and need to forcequit it, sites are slow and a lot of other problems where the computer will not respond for a few minutes and I am stranded looking at the rainbow wheel. I have a colleague sharing the same space with the same imac doing the same tasks plus using photoshop and illustrator but his imac is working fine. Is it something I should consult with Apple? is it a hardware failure? I also have time machine and from time to time it will give me errors that time machine can't connect to the drive or several other different errors.
I appreciate your input.
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8GB
OS: 10.7.4It really sounds like you're really taxing both the CPU and RAM.
With the description of the way you work with your iMac, it sounds as of you really need a lot more than 8 GBs of RAM.
OS X, alone, needs to a have a working minimum of 3-4 GBs of RAM to function smoothly and efficiently.
Your iMac can take up to 32 GBs of RAM.
I would advise installing another 4-8 GBs of RAM.
Also, is Spotlight still indexing your drives? This can slow things down, also.
Maybe your friend is running his iMac with more RAM?
As a designer, myself, I would put in as much RAM as I can afford in order to get Adobe Creative Suite to run as fast as I can get it to run.
Photoshop, alone can eat up lots up CPU,GPU, RAM and HD resources. -
IMac running extremely slow all of a sudden
I have a 1st generation Intel iMac (24", late 2006), which ran fine for three years but all of a sudden slowed to a crawl about a month ago. I upgraded to 3GB of RAM, but didn't see any improvement; I've run the disk utility app on the system install disk and didn't get any problems; I don't see anything in the Activity Monitor that's hogging CPU usage (although iTunes uses about 7% while playing music and 20% while playing video - considerably higher when it loads a new track into RAM); and I have 70GB free on a 300GB hard disk. I realize that this is just scratching the surface, so what else should I be looking at? For what it's worth, yes I have an HP printer, but the drivers don't seem to take up that much CPU time; and I'm still on 10.4.11, so maybe it's just time to upgrade to Snow Leopard; but either way I've been on this system (and with this printer) for a long time, and I don't understand why this would happen all of a sudden...
Thanks!
Message was edited by: AstigmatismHI,
70GB free disk space could be at least part of the problem for the disk slowing down.
Try Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
Check the startup disk for errors that may need repairing.
Insert your install disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
*(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. *Make sure there is always 10% to 15% free disk space*
If you cannot boot from your install disc, try booting in Safe Mode
How to Force Background Maintenance
One way to free up disk space...
Open Console. Select system.log then from the Menu Bar click Reveal in Finder then move that log file to the Trash. These logs can take up as much as a GB.
Carolyn -
Why is my iMac running ridiculously slow now?!
My iMac has been solid, but getting slower over time naturally. About 2 days ago after trying to open OpenOffice software, my iMac performed slower than ever - so much so that I had to force it to shut down. Since then, no matter what I try to do, it is SLOW & locks up to where I have to force shut down the computer. I looked at the activity monitor & it doesn't seem like anything is running unusually high. Kernel_task takes up about 190.4 MB of Real Memory & about 1.5% of CPU. Everything else seems okay, but I don't know what most of the processes are. Those processes are shown below. I did an Etrecheck & posted my results below as well. I'm hoping someone can help me decipher this & hopefully get back computer back to normal! Thanks in advance for any help!
Activity Monitor results:
Active Memory: 485.8 MB
Free Memory: 1.17 GB
Wired Memory: 217.9 MB
Used Memory: 845.3 MB
Inactive Memory: 141.6 MB
Total VM: 35.42 GB
Number of processes: 54
PID Process Name User CPU Real Mem Virtual Mem
0 kernel_task root 2.0 191.7 MB 1,008.9 MB
1 launchd root 0.0 1.3 MB 597.1 MB
10 kextd root 0.0 2.4 MB 598.1 MB
11 DirectoryService root 0.1 6.0 MB 604.9 MB
12 notifyd root 0.1 540 KB 595.3 MB
13 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 1.0 MB 597.5 MB
14 configd root 0.1 3.3 MB 615.7 MB
15 syslogd root 0.0 1.3 MB 597.5 MB
16 blued root 0.0 2.2 MB 610.3 MB
17 distnoted daemon 0.0 856 KB 597.3 MB
18 mDNSResponder _mdnsrespo 0.0 1.6 MB 599.6 MB
23 securityd root 0.0 2.1 MB 609.7 MB
26 ntpd root 0.0 852 KB 586.1 MB
27 cupsd root 0.0 2.3 MB 598.8 MB
28 krb5kdc root 0.0 1.6 MB 597.9 MB
32 usbmuxd _usbmuxd 0.0 1.3 MB 599.9 MB
37 mds root 0.0 81.0 MB 735.3 MB
38 loginwindow Arti 0.0 6.3 MB 780.3 MB
39 KernelEventAgent root 0.0 692 KB 596.4 MB
41 hidd root 0.0 676 KB 597.4 MB
42 fseventsd root 0.0 1.2 MB 603.0 MB
44 dynamic_pager root 0.0 560 KB 585.8 MB
50 autofsd root 0.0 656 KB 588.4 MB
53 SmartwareServerApp root 0.1 2.4 MB 613.6 MB
54 WDDMService root 0.0 808 KB 598.7 MB
56 coreservicesd root 0.1 15.4 MB 621.9 MB
72 WindowServer _windowser 4.2 49.4 MB 798.4 MB
77 cvmsServ root 0.0 600 KB 588.9 MB
91 coreaudiod _coreaudio 0.0 1.8 MB 600.6 MB
98 launchd Arti 0.1 1.0 MB 596.6 MB
102 Dock Arti 0.0 15.4 MB 773.9 MB
103 SystemUIServer Arti 0.0 8.6 MB 772.8 MB
104 Finder Arti 0.0 21.4 MB 815.2 MB
107 pboard Arti 0.0 592 KB 586.9 MB
111 fontd Arti 0.0 3.7 MB 644.1 MB
115 UserEventAgent Arti 0.0 2.9 MB 601.8 MB
123 AirPort Base Station Agen Arti 0.0 3.4 MB 765.3 MB
124 BloggieSoftwareAutoRun Arti 0.0 2.9 MB 758.3 MB
125 Seagate Storage Gauge Arti 0.0 2.2 MB 729.1 MB
127 Folder Actions Dispatcher Arti 0.0 2.9 MB 758.5 MB
129 TISwitcher Arti 0.0 2.9 MB 758.4 MB
133 WD Quick View Arti 0.0 13.4 MB 790.1 MB
134 Flux Arti 0.2 5.7 MB 767.7 MB
153 Activity Monitor Arti 12.5 15.9 MB 818.9 MB
165 activitymonitord root 5.0 972 KB 587.1 MB
207 Safari Arti 0.0 37.2 MB 852.7 MB
209 Safari Web Content Arti 0.8 134.9 MB 905.2 MB
215 EtreCheck Arti 0.0 24.5 MB 828.3 MB
271 AppleSpell.service Arti 0.0 6.9 MB 617.5 MB
292 mdworker Arti 0.0 5.8 MB 618.4 MB
297 mdworker _spotlight 0.0 2.6 MB 617.2 MB
300 SyncServer Arti 0.0 4.1 MB 614.1 MB
304 TextEdit Arti 0.0 7.3 MB 778.2 MB
317 nmblookup Arti 0.0 1,008 KB 587.9 MB
Etrecheck results:
Hardware Information:
iMac (Early 2006 20-inch)
iMac - model: iMac4,1
1 2 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU: 2 cores
2 GB RAM
Video Information:
ATY,RadeonX1600 - VRAM: 128 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 0 days 0:31:40
Disk Information:
WDC WD2500JS-40NGB2 disk0 : (232.89 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Failing
(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 232.57 GB (103.33 GB free)
USB Information:
Micron Built-in iSight
Mitsumi Electric Hub in Apple Extended USB Keyboard
Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard
Primax Electronics Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[System] org.samba.winbindd.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Daemons:
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sonycorporation.BloggieInstallerAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[System] com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sony.BloggieSoftware.AutoRun.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
Flux
iTunesHelper
System Events
WDQuickView
Internet Plug-ins:
RealPlayer Plugin: Version: (null) 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.1.0.33 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.6
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 3rd-Party support link
CouponPrinter-FireFox: Version: Version 1.0.11
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 6.0
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 13.9.8 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.2
User Internet Plug-ins:
Picasa: Version: 1.0 3rd-Party support link
BrowserPlus_2.9.8: Version: 2.9.8 3rd-Party support link
WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
BrowserPlus 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
None
Time Machine:
Time Machine information requires OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later.
Top Processes by CPU:
5% Safari
3% WindowServer
3% EtreCheck
2% activitymonitord
1% Activity Monitor
Top Processes by Memory:
82 MB mds
47 MB WebProcess
47 MB WindowServer
33 MB Safari
20 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information:
1.28 GB Free RAM
379 MB Active RAM
146 MB Inactive RAM
210 MB Wired RAM
187 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outsIt definitely shows only 2 GBs of RAM, however, your system seems to be doing pretty well with just 2 GBs. I agree with kostby about the hard drive. A failing status is a major sign the drive is failing, and a failing drive could be the basic cause of a system running slow.
For memory I would recommend any one of these:
OWC
DataMem
Crucial.com
Both OWC and DataMem vend hard drives, too. -
IMac running abnormaly slow with Leopard - Intel, 2GHz, 2GB
Hey All,
I've been having an issue with my iMac recently.. I've had it for almost a year now, its been running great till about 3-4 months ago. I mainly do Graphic Design and Photography so the hardrive was pretty full(about 20GB left) I figured this was, what, was causing my mac to slow down so much.. so I went out and bought an external hardrive 250GB I transfered all my files and several softwares. Even then my mac was still running slow. So I decide to clean out and start over using the Tiger OS CD, it took close to 7 hours to erase everything from the comp and install tiger back into my system.. When that was done I booted my computer and it would stay in the spinning gear screen for hours. After about 3 hours of **** and almost tears(LOL) it came back.. But STILL running slow. Even with nothing but basics in the computer!
A month later a friend bought leopard family pack. I thought maybe it would help. So we did a complete install of leopard. once again; deleting all old files; Which weren't much by that time. It took a good 19-20 hours to install leopard on the comp. Once it was done I booted and the same screen came up only it didn't take as long. The computer is acting a bit better, but still WAY too slow. It takes a while to boot up, and freezes almost constantly. I turn it on in the morning so its usable in the afternoon, I can only have basic softwares open ( Safari, iChat, Mail) if I start Photoshop etc it will work VERY slow! and crash to where theres no option but using the button in the back. I then thought, "maybe I need more RAM (since I had the stock 1GB) Maybe I fried the stock one." So just yesterday I bought 2 X 1GB for it. at first it wouldn't start, just the light would turn on, I toggled the Chips a bit and it turned on.. I CAN see an improvment.. Its still WAY to slow on boot up (it will stay on a solid blue screen for about 2-3 minutes) but doesn't take long to load my dock once its already on. It is working better, but still constantly loading with the now annoying little ball(I used to love that thing LOL)
I have nothing else to do - I am taking it to the Apple store this weekend.. Its a long drive! I was hoping I wouldn't have to.
Any ideas before taking it down there? Do you guys think they will be able to fix the problem?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!
- JoseWelcome to Apple Discussions!
If after an erase and install frequent spinning beachballs occur without addition of third party software or hardware, usually that means the RAM has gone bad, or an internal hardware issue has developed. Do you have the original installer discs for the computer to run the hardware test from? -
2008 iMac running very slow...why?!
My 2008 iMac started running very slowly yesterday, taking ages to start up and showing the spinning wheel on the desktop for ages making it impossible to do anything. It particularly doesn't like running iTunes or Spotify and got worse when I plugged my iPod in. Another thing I can think of is I downloaded an album from iTunes yesterday and this seemed to coincide with it having a breakdown. Chrome is also running slow and I get frequent unresponsive script messages.
I'm running OS X 10.5.8 and have upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1. I recently installed the Flashback removal software. Anyone got ideas as to why my computer might suddenly be behaving like this? Don't fancy an expensive trip to the Genuis Bar! Thank v v much.Hi...
How much free space on the startup disk?
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure there's a minimum of 15% free disk space.
Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac GuidesFreeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides
Since it's so slow to startup, remove any items in System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items
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Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks -
Good Friday to you all.
I am struggling to figure out why my computer is running so painfully slow. All applications even safari. I have a word document open and safari running. I can hear the system running in the background all the time. Like it is working on something all the time.
Info from version is Snow leopard 10.6.8
Capacity: 250 GB, Available 72 GB.
That is all I know to look for. I have used clean my MAC to scan for excess files etc. but that is about all I know to look for.
Any tips would be helpful.
My next idea was to buy a external hard drive to off load some big files, like movies and pictures to give me more space.
But this should have anything to do with how slow safari is running ?
Thank you,
Karen
ALmonte , Ontario CanadaSince this problem started, have you restarted the iMac?
Mac OS X uses hidden files called swap files for its virtual memory scheme. If you are logged in for a long time (like a week or more), those files can get fragmented, making basic operations less efficient. So if things start to feel sluggish or you see odd behavior, the first thing you should do is restart.
This can also happen (or happen more quickly) if you are running low on free space on your startup volume. Once you get below about 15% free, the remaining free space will get more fragmented, and Mac OS X will not be able to operate as efficiently. So if you are running low on free space, get an external drive and copy off some of your data to free up space on your startup volume.
Another thing you should do periodically is run Disk Utility and use the +Repair Disk Permissions+ routine (on +First Aid+ tab) on your startup volume. I do it immediately before running Software Update to install an update.
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