Mac Pro Slow to load webpages

Almost overnight, My MacPro (late 2009 Dual Quad, 2 1Tetra HD) started to REALLY slow down when loading webpages on both Safari and Firefox. Some times , I will get the "safari can't find browser" message...and if I try it again, it will load....after it loads and I go back to in within the same internet session, it is usually ok. And these are my topsites that I go to all the time. Did not know if anyone had any ideas. I tried to find if there were some type of diagnostic software, but could not find it.
Could I possibly have a virus...if so any suggestions on how to rid myself of it.

My MacPro (late 2009 Dual Quad
Sig shows 10.4 my friend!
Also, 3 x 2GB (or 4 x 2GB) is basic, I would hate to see someone running with less than 6GB, and some have a need for 12-24GB easily.
Keep your system in good shape with SuperDuper and Disk Warrior (clone it over to a new drive). Installing a system and apps can really fragment all the free space and while files may not be, it still helps to clone once in awhile, and optimize free space etc.
For some apps, 8GB really is not a lot (CS4/5 for instance_) though I'm sure you'll find those that say their system is 'fine' with that amount for their work. Others really need more (fast raid0 for boot; scratch; and media).
Avoid 'green' drives for active work. And while fast, a full 1TB drive full track seek is still going to be slow... another reason to clone/optimize.

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Mac is slow to load webpages and PC is fast, Why?

I have an iMac g5 with an airport card. The problem I have is that when I open up any web page it takes 3 to 4 times longer to load than my windows based laptop loading the same pages. I have a Microsoft wireless G router set up on my home PC. Now here is the very strange thing. When I connect to my neighbors unsecured network (with their permission) I notice that the webpages load much faster but still not as fast as my windows based laptops or home PC. has anyone had this problem before? Any idea of what I should do? I have thought about additional memory to help with some processing performance, but I know that cant be the solution.

Joel, under system preferences, energy saver go to options and make sure your processor performance is set to highest. When I changed mine from automatic to highest things started moving a quite a bit faster. I found the following on an old Appleinsider forum:
"mac600mhz
Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 88
From: England posted 12-14-2004 07:06 PM
did 3 tests changing the processor performance option in the energy saving
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2) processor performance on Auto Xbench score 97.25
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Yo , yeah its a mac book pro, noly got it about 6 months ago, not sure if it has a removable battery, it all looks completely sealed, this is what it said in the battery menu:
Model Information:
Serial Number:          W01264M3HD3BA
Manufacturer:          SMP
Device Name:          bq20z451
Pack Lot Code:          0000
PCB Lot Code:          0000
Firmware Version:          0201
Hardware Revision:          000a
Cell Revision:          0158
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh):          5021
Fully Charged:          No
Charging:          No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):          5923
Health Information:
Cycle Count:          49
Condition:          Normal
Battery Installed:          Yes
Amperage (mA):          -958
Voltage (mV):          11946
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Wake on AC Change:          No
Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Wake on LAN:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          2
Wake on AC Change:          No
Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Current Power Source:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
Reduce Brightness:          Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed:          No
AC Charger Information:
Connected:          No
Charging:          No
Hope you can help, its reallly quite annoying considering its quite new.
Cheers

Mac Pro slow down after Yosemite 10.10.2 upgrade

Upgraded in January.
I get the spinning color wheel all the time. Programs crash.
I've run adware medic a few times, and etrecheck.
First run through, adware found Genio.
Since then, it hasn't. Etrecheck still says it sees it, but Adware doesn't. Still no good.
I reset SMS and PRAM.
This machine is slow. Previous to the upgrade, this machine was very fast!
Etrecheck report:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:    Mac Pro
Model Identifier:    MacPro5,1
Processor Name:    Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:    2.4 GHz
Number of Processors:    2
Total Number of Cores:    8
L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor):    12 MB
Memory:    20 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:    5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:    MP51.007F.B03
SMC Version (system):    1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray):    1.39f11
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Serial Number (processor tray):    J512102JZBH8C
Hardware UUID:    331ADEF9-7672-54D4-B314-6CC9510F23F1
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Mac pro Slow Performance

Hello Everyone,
I made a similar post about this subject not to long ago but now im back in the same situation. I will just recap everything that i did and hear your guys thoughts on what i did.
So to make a long story short.. I have a 2009 imac that contains all of my applications that i use on a daily basis. I then bought a 2012 12-core Mac Pro. Instead of being patient i wanted to start using this machine right away. I then set up migration assistant on both machines and literally copied everything over from my imac to my newly purchased mac pro. I later realized that this was a bad idea because it brought over boat loads of crap that was not being used (essentially 700GB) My computer was running very slow, defiantly not at speed of what a 12-core should be running at. so i started cleaning it up to the best that i could and was able to clear up 200 or so GB's. I still was not satisfied by the results i was getting. I kept getting beach balls and slow performance overall. so i went out and bought a 120GB SSD drive and figured that would be my best solution... well certainly it was at first. I then cleaned up my applications folder to clear up room in that folder. so after that was done i used migration assistant to transfer JUST the APPLICATIONS over to the SSD. After that was complete i then received a ton of crap on on the SSD. On boot up im not getting a pop up that is attached to a program i use to have on the iMac and is started to run slower than before the migration to the SSD...
So basically this is where i stand. I am thinking about just starting over from scratch and only bring over the files and applications that i need on the SSD. What is the best way to take applications off of my imac and put them onto my mac pro (meaning without migration assistant) The reason i need to transfer them over is because i do not have all of the applications on CD form to just re-install again. However, if i need to get the applications from the CD's for this to work then i will just have tp go through with that extra bit of trouble to do it the right way.
The whole purpose of this is trying to clean up my computer and keep it as organized as possible.
If anyone has any recommendations for the best way to perform this operation, its greatly appreciated!
thanks in advance!

A clean install along with Setup Assistant (or Migration Assistant) really is good and important way to go.
Too many issues moving to a newer OS and it has been made easy.
You can CCC clone the home folders elsewhere.
You can CCC the system and apps to another drifve and retain just your home library (the part that is now hidden which is annoying to some and taking too invasive into user space as if we can't and don't need access?)
~/Library
The only apps you can are ones you may as well just download and mount and drag, the type that lack and don't need to install anything anywheres but the package of the app itself.

Mac pro slows down after RAM uppgrade ASP (its my workstation)

I have an mac pro (first 8core released back in 2007) and i uppgraded it from 4 to 8 gig of ram. After the upgrade it became slower so I installed snow leopard since it should handle ram and multicores better but that didnt help. Its like it go from sleepy to extreme slow. Like an photoshop image that should take 12 seconds to load took 10min!! So its somethin fishy.
The old configration
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1: 1 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2: 1 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1: 1 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2: 1 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3: 0 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4: 0 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3: 0 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4: 0 GB
The new uppgraded
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1: 1 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2: 1 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1: 1 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2: 1 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3: 2 GB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4: 2 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3: 0 GB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4: 0 GB
Does 2007 have 4 memory chips as ideal as 2006 had? Can the macstore give me bad compatible rams (i asked for orginal mac ram memmorys). If this could make it go slow. Mabe snow leapord helped out to slow it down but I worked one and half day before I uppgraded to snow leopard and it was already slow.
This is on my worskstation so its Asp. Is there any heros here?
(ok I will test to take out the ram and se if everything goes back to normal but still I would like to get it to work)
Cheers
Joel

"need" is something that is "recommended" for symmetrical memory performance.
It shouldn't run any different really.
I always recommend this:
try with just the new RAM
put highest density in A1:A2
It is symmetrical, sort of, as 4x1GB in slots 1:2 on both Risers.
My take: doesn't play nice or get along with original 4GB; marginal; and ideal is 4 x 2GB; second best 8 x 1GB. 6 DIMMs is the worst configuration AFTER not having enough.
I'd wipe out your swap files; clone your drive - if you haven't done so in six months you should, also if moving to a new OS, DEFINITELY either
Clean install on new/2nd drive (great excuse for new fast drive);
Clone and then upgrade (worst scenerio)
Clean install followed by running Migration Assistant for everything except applications.
Don't want to have issues with new OS, new drivers, AND new hardware (even RAM) and a new OS isn't going to fix a problem, just add new ones. And TEST a new OS before you commit yourself (reason for backups and clones and the like).
Also, run Disk Warrior on fresh clone before you use it.
What you do, why, you probably did need more RAM, 4GB is pretty basic and not even enough for pro apps like graphic editing.
Watch RAM temps and run AHT Extended Loop briefly.
I'd watch for bad blocks and disk sectors; re-initialize drives, even install some new ones: WD 10K V-Raptor for system and another for scratch; Samsung 1TB F3 for data.... something like that if it has been 2+ yrs.

Mac Pro slowing to a snail's pace and hard drive constantly active

My Mac Pro is running very slowly. Programs are slow to load, I frequently get "beach balls" for non-intensive operations, and the hard disk never seems to stop. Both Safari and Firefox are especially slow. This is without running any resource intensive programs like video editors, or Photoshop. My wife is having the same problem on her account on the same computer. I have repaired disk permissions, reset PRAM, manually run the daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts, and even done a reformat and reinstall. Only about 3/8 of the primary hard drive is used. Any help would be appreciated.

Leroy,
I did restart in Safe Mode and the computer seemed to run fine. Then went to System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items and removed what I thought were the suspect programs, namely Shove Box, Butler, and Smart Reporter. I then restarted my computer normally, and left it on all night. Now the computer is back to running very slowly without the suspect programs running. To give you an example, iTunes took over 45 seconds to load completely.
The question I have is how do I tell what programs are not loaded when I boot in Safe Mode and what programs are loaded when do not boot in safe mode. That way I can try to figure out which program is causing the problems. I did review the article you linked to, and could not find anything that looked problematic except that the Caches folder in my Library folder is 905.3 M. As I write this my hard drive is whirling away for no apparent reason.
In reference to The Hatter's comment, that I could have a corrupt Spotlight index or database would that fit in with the facts that we have thus far?

Mac Pro slow write speed on Samsung SSD drive

Hi,
I am wondering why I get very slow write speeds on my Samsung SSD 840 Series 250 GB system startup drive in my Mac Pro (early 2008).
I get an average write speed of approx. 35 MB/s and not much more for top speed. I tested it by transfering a large file (8GB, .m4v) from my Mac Pro internal Raid 0 (4x 2TB Stripe Set) delivering up to 550 MB/s. The read speed of the SSD is around 270 MB/s which I consider to be OK for that I have just the 3 Gb/s internal SATA interfaces in my pretty outdated Mac Pro.
I don't see any Memory or CPU overruns or consuming system tasks while doing the tests and no other user programs except Activity Monitor is running. The following screen shots from the Activity Monitor should proove my findings:
Setup:
Samsung SSD 840 Series 250 GB (SATA 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s compatible) system startup drive. Free Space left on SSD is around 100GB of 250GB.
Mac Pro (early 2008, Model 3,1), 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB.
OS X Mavericks 10.9.1
Samsung sais there should be 540 MB/s for Seq. Read and 250 MB/s for Seq. Write for their SSD drive.
Any hints what could be done to increase especially that low write speed of around 35 MB/s (average) on the SSD in my Mac Pro?

Really great 'The hatter' !!!
Thanks a lot for your exceptional support.
Next to my 4x discs in the 4 SATA II drive bays I have installed a additional OWC drive kit that allows me to have another 2 disks sitting in the empty bay below the CD/DVD drive and those are connected to the motherboard. So there is a lot to handle for that controller you mentionned ;-)
I will follow your guidance and boot from my 'maintenance' system on direct attached external drive, install the TRIM Enabler there as well and do the DU repair run. I always have a separate system available that gives me the chance to boot my Mac from there. And in addition I regularly use ONYX to keep my OS X clean and do the maintenance.
Anyway, you're the man of the day!
PS; I am looking forward to finally receive my new Mac Pro (late 2013) ordered on the 18th of December one of these days and then I hope that I can fly ;-)

Mac Pro slows to a crawl performing routine tasks

I have an early dual 2.66 Dual-Core Xeon Mac Pro. For the last year or so, it's been plagued by very poor performance whenever anything of significance is going on. Some of the most blatant offenders are iTunes iPhone/iPad syncs, Time Machine backups, and certainly more strenuous things like Lightroom batch exports. Whenever something like that is going on, just opening Google in a new Safari window can take 5-10 seconds, along with beachballs, slow typing response, etc.
I've done two OS wipes hoping it was software-related, but that never helped. I've tried defragging, run extended hardware tests using the Apple tool and it found nothing. There's about 50GB of space left on my startup drive, but like I said, this happened on a new, clean install, so I'm sure it's not software. Even though there were no errors, I pulled all but two 2GB memory sticks and performance was still bad with just iTunes and Safari running during a sync. CPU usage is fairly nominal during these episodes, so it's not like something is pegging them. I have a Core Duo and Core 2 Duo MBP and they both run fine. It's not bleeding edge, but this Mac Pro shouldn't be worse than those two, and it is. I'm pretty convinced it's a hardware issue somewhere but I don't know where to go from here. Any suggestions?

I'm having the exact same problem, sluggish performance with nothing going on. I have iTunes running I'm typing in Text Edit and I get one or two words ahead of the cursor. I have to wait a few seconds for everything. Activity monitor shows no CPU hogs. I've looked into the problem being Spotlight indexing, cache files out of control, kotoeri input, any other obscure crevasse in the dark inner workings of this petulant beast I could think of. I've defragged, I've run unix maintenance scripts, repaired permissions (from Terminal, "Maybe it'll work better.") I've researched and investigated and tried everything I can think of. I'm at my wits end. Came here. This is the first confirmation I've had that I'm not insane and someone else has the same issue.
I know there have been some problems with the Radeon 2600, screen goes black and won't revive without holding one's tongue just the right way. Some have reported it eventually just not reviving. I wondered if that had something to do with things. Can't see how though. If I knew it would solve the issue for sure I'd drop the few hundred to relieve the torture, as it is I can't afford a few hundred for a "maybe."
I upgraded to Snow Leopard hoping it would resolve. At first it did. Now it's back. It comes and goes, sometimes I don't notice it, then it gets bad, then it's gone, then it gets really bad, I swear, it stays really bad, I swear some more. I have a 8-Core with 10GB of RAM and I can't use Text Edit without waiting for the cursor? Some thing is amiss.
I don't know that we'll find a solution, it seems so obscure, but misery loves company. I'll let you know if I discover a wonder fix, hoping you'll do the same.
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

Mac Pro slow vs. iMac?

Hello:
I have the early 2008 Mac Pro (2.8GHz quad) with 10GB total ram and I am really perplexed because when I went to Frys yesterday to play around with an iMac (2.8GHz core duo) with only 2GB ram, I found that this iMac opened up programs and was so much more speedy than my Mac Pro.
I am really bothered by how fast the iMac seemed compated to my Mac Pro because I though I had a system with superior specifications, but it seems to open up programs much slower than the iMac.
How can I be sure that my Mac Pro is functioning as it should? The 8GB (4 x 2GB) extra ram I bought for it is aftermarket . Do you think that this could be the problem?
Thanks,
Derek

More often it is migrating the system or something else. I doubt you could see the 4% difference even if you got the wrong slower memory, and unlikely OWC would do that.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper5.html
http://www.barefeats.com/harper.html
http://www.barefeats.com/harper7.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
And of course you want the best of drives rather than just original.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper9.html

Mac Pro - Slow boot, Slow performance

Hello,
I have a mac pro quad 2.66 running 10.4.11 , 1GB ram . I have a pro tools pciE core card in the computer, 2 20" cinema displays, 1 glyph external firewire 400 drive, and 1 western digital usb hard drive connected to the computer.
Recently the computer started booting really slow, like 5 minutes slow. then the computer started to run extremely slow as well, like un-usable slow. my macbook 1.83 is like a super machine in comparison. If I double click an icon (like finder or cd drive) it takes about 5 - 10 seconds to show the icon is highlighted then another 10 - 20 seconds to open the finder window.
As of now, the computer can sometimes take up to 10 - 15 minutes to boot up, there is no more "startup" noise, and i cant seem to get the computer to boot off of the osx disk. I hold down C from the moment i turn on the computer and i hold it down for about 15 minutes and the computer still starts from the hard drive. the super drive is still working because it can read the disk fine once it boots up.
i dont know what to do, i opened up the computer, it looks somewhat dirty inside. i thought about trying to clean it and see if that helps, dont know what to clean it with though. computer duster? (if thats even the problem). I was thinking some sort of ram error or something, but i dont know if that explains why i cant boot from the install disk to try and repair the startup HD.
please help, thanks in advance,
br

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6400AAKS/
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
Great replacement - and worth every penny of $82 to avoid and fix this, and because your system will run better.
Resetting PRAM/NVRAM
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
SMC - System Management Controller
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1806
Most articles are easily found at Mac Pro Support
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro/
It is a good idea to insure new memory works by itself; to run Apple Hardware Test (OEM DVD boot with "D" to run Extended Test) once, too. And yes, 4 x 2GB would be better and loss of 1GB won't help enough. Still have room to add 4 x 1GB or more down the road.
You keep the four keys held down through 3 complete restart cycles before you release the keys.
If the system forgets where to boot from, which this will trigger, hold the OPTION key. Also, it should still boot but have to scan for a valid boot drive system.... which is what your problem, in part, sounds like (except for some other issues).
Yes, great on UPS and backups. But it is also "wise" for you or your department, to have some emergency boot drives (FireWire 800 is great) for repairs, maintenance and to make changes - and to rule out the drive is functioning. A bad block sector can ruin everything and cause days of fixing, when having a backup or alternate would be... your own personal "UPS" - redundancy. Some servers have redundant PSU and other components, a "spare tire" if you will.
Finder: Go to Folder (under one of the menus or just use "Command + Shift + G" and type "var/vm" will show you the location of swap files, which is normally a hidden folder. Nice to get to know a couple places where some things are stored. Also, look at Activity Monitor. Leopard seems to have more information on pageouts, VM, and swap files being used.
SmcFanControl is a little background utility that most of us use, that helps especially in summer or with some upgrade cards to keep everything run cooler, like FBDIMM RAM. The default fan rpm is 499-599 while setting it even to 799 will make enough difference to drop the temperature or keep temps below threshold.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049/smcfancontrol
Which brings up another - monitoring the temperature of cpu, memory, etc. I use Hardware Monitor, many use iStatPro or Temperature Monitor. All easy to find on MacUpdate while there. All of them don't have any negative side effect - lean and mean and the "less is more" philosophy keeps a system running its smoothest and error free, so normally I avoid installing what I don't need, and avoid the potential for conflicts, but these are fine, been using for 2 yrs, since I got Mac Pro.
http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html - he knows his stuff and has contributed to discussions on system memory temps.
System Startup key commands:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303124
Long startup times:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86639
Repairing your startup drive (rather than use DVD though, much better to have TechTool Pro http://www.micromat.com )
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8492.html

Mac Pro slow after upgrade to 10.5.5

I got a certified Mac Pro a few month ago. It worked pretty fast in the beginning but then the performance slowed down. I called the Apple support and they just told me to upgrade from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5. But now my Mac is even slower than before; especially start up time takes a while.
Also, when I do "Disk Utility – Repair Disk permission" I get these errors now:
OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/bin/lppasswd" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
Permissions differ on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .
Can anyone help?

Hi and thank you very much for all your suggestions!
I'm really not a Mac expert. In my company we always had a technican. Now I'm working from home and need to deal with the technical stuff by myself. So please forgive me my answers below:
Run Disk Warrior.
OK – I don't have this program but I guess it is worth to buy (?)
Clone your drive with SuperDuper or Disk Utility Restore.
I found Disk Utility Restore. It says to copy a disk, drag the it from the list on the left. Should I drag the HD symbol in the destination field? What does actually happen when I clone my HD?
Never repair permissions booted from an older version,, that includes not using the OS X DVD, it will not set permissions properly.
OK – thanks
What do you mean by slower. Just startup? how many boot drives are connected? and have you reset startup disk? do you have Windows installed?
Yes starting up is slower, but funily not always. And the general handling in programs. It's not so slow that it would bother me a lot. I just wondered if I could have the performance how it was in the beginning.
One boot drive; I guess.
No, I haven't reset startup disk. How do I do this?
No Windows installed
What did you change or install (hardware or software) at the time it slowed down?
Just the update to 10.5.5
Always keep a backup copy you can boot from before you apply updates so you can go back easily to 10.5.4.
Thanks – I didn't do this
Make sure you have an alternate boot drive used just for doing maintenance and repairs where you can run Disk Utility, Warrior, TechTool Pro. I would also delete manually the two top level /Library/Caches folders along with extensions.mkext.
Sorry – What exactly is alternate boot drive?
Some messages from Disk Utility can be ignored.
Are some messages serious?

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