Macintosh HD Full

I don't know if this really affects my hard disk, I really experiencing a lot of spinning wheel of death, and also very slow mac.
I want to ask if what does this mean? Does the local volume group affects my hard disk performance and is it really full?
If not, can someone explain what this means? Thanks a lot!!

Hi R,
I don't know what you've tried or not so far, so the first step is just to do a restart.

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