Mac gets gradually slower until it's almost unusable
A couple of months ago something got corrupted on my hard drive which caused the computer to not boot properly. I was able to back it up, repair the drive, and reinstall the OS.
Everything was fine, but things seemed to be slower, though that could just be in my head.
Fast forward to now... I always leave my computer on. Yeah. I hate the environment. I came in one day and my computer had powered down sometime during the night, so I rebooted it and noticed that my battery no longer charges. I keep my computer plugged in, so not sure if the battery issue would have powered down my computer in and of itself. It shouldn't have.
Then I noticed slowness. Like unbearable slowness - just using Office and surfing the web. A lot of pages become unresponsive and/or take forever to load. It's not my internet connection. I was able to finally get a speedtest to load and speed was fine (25mbps down and 20 up). Also, I have a bunch of other computers, including an Air and they were fine on the same network. Also, EVERYTHING becomes slow, not just my browser. Even System Preferences and Finder take forever to open (spinning beachball).
It's not RAM, diskspace or CPU, based on looking at my activity monitor, so the only think I can think is perhaps my hard drive is failing.
If I close everything and reboot, then speed will resume back to normal, but then it will start to slow again after a few hours of usage. I guess the other thing it could be is one of the programs I run. I generally run Chrome, Outlook, word, excel, powerpoint, itunes (streaming via icloud), Lync and Skype. I supposed it could be one of those programs, but nothing in Activity Monitor shows any high usage by any one process.
I have an appointment to take my computer in, but my fear is that it'll be running fine. I have to be doing things for a few hours before it becomes super super slow. It almost seems like a memory leak somewhere.
I've run disk utility and it can't find anything wrong with the hard drive. The drive isn't making any strange noises or clicking. My computer does take about a minute to boot up these days though. I don't recall it being that sluggish before, but maybe it was.
Any ideas on what could be the problem or recommendations for other things to try? I was unable to successfully do a Hardware Test. I tried a zillion times (booting up while pressing "D") and nada.
Macbook pro 15" Early2011
8G RAM
2.3 ghz i7 core
OSX 10.8.4
EtreCheck info:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) - Uptime: 0 days 11:41:47
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (718.77 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] jp.co.canon.CUPSCMFP.BG.plist
[loaded] jp.co.canon.UFR2.BG.plist
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[redacted]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Nike+ Connect Helper
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Java
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X
Internet Plug-ins:
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101750.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
GarminGpsControl.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
WebEx64.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes by CPU:
4% WindowServer
3% Activity Monitor
3% EtreCheck
2% activitymonitord
1% Google Chrome
0% UFR II BackGrounder
0% cupsd
0% Canon CMFP BackGrounder
0% Dropbox
0% ps
Top Processes by Memory:
147 MB Google Chrome
74 MB Snagit
74 MB Dropbox
66 MB WindowServer
57 MB Finder
49 MB mds
49 MB Google Chrome Helper
41 MB Dock
33 MB SystemUIServer
33 MB SnagitCapHelper
Virtual Memory Statistics
5.42 GB Free RAM
1.35 GB Active RAM
157 MB Inactive RAM
1.07 GB Wired RAM
482 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) - Uptime: 0 days 11:41:47
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (718.77 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] jp.co.canon.CUPSCMFP.BG.plist
[loaded] jp.co.canon.UFR2.BG.plist
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[redacted]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Nike+ Connect Helper
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player
Java
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X
Internet Plug-ins:
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101750.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
GarminGpsControl.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
WebEx64.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes by CPU:
4% WindowServer
3% Activity Monitor
3% EtreCheck
2% activitymonitord
1% Google Chrome
0% UFR II BackGrounder
0% cupsd
0% Canon CMFP BackGrounder
0% Dropbox
0% ps
Top Processes by Memory:
147 MB Google Chrome
74 MB Snagit
74 MB Dropbox
66 MB WindowServer
57 MB Finder
49 MB mds
49 MB Google Chrome Helper
41 MB Dock
33 MB SystemUIServer
33 MB SnagitCapHelper
Virtual Memory Statistics
5.42 GB Free RAM
1.35 GB Active RAM
157 MB Inactive RAM
1.07 GB Wired RAM
482 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
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