Recent upgrade, slow performance, shown in Activity Monitor
I have been experiencing gradually slowing performance in the last couple of weeks, the only thing I have done a couple months ago is upgrade to Leopard, though the timing does not indicate it's this precisely.
It is most noticeable in Safari and PS CS3 and Bridge, the programs I mostly use.
In Activity Monitor, when this occurs there are a couple of offending processes, and they are always hanging when the slowing phases happen. They say, in red:
UserEventAgent (not responding)
and/or
coreaudioid (not responding)
Does anyone know what this might be? How I can correct whatever this is?
thx
That thread indicates the cause points to various plug-ins primarily from Pro Tools. I do have PT installed, and I have now uninstalled it. We'll see if things improve. Otherwise I don't know how to isolate the cause, for example another random plug-in, so the thread was of limited value. Good start though, thanks.
Pro Tools LE 7.x is apparently not yet compatible with Leopard, joy.
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After using my computer for some time, CPU usage climbs to about 90% (ca. 65% user / 26% system) and fans run at high speed, but there is no processes that seem to use CPU (other than Activity Monitor itself ~1%).
This has happened a few times recently. It happens when I've used my computer for some time, hours or a couple of days (I usually put my computer to sleep when not using it but rarely shut it down). I've tried to quit all running apps incl. Growl, Dropbox, and anything that could be responsible to this but with no results. Putting computer to sleep for a long time doesn't help, cpu usage will climb instantly after wake up. Restarting system is the only thing that helps.
Most of the time I use my laptop with external monitor, lid closed and connected to power supply. When experiencing this, opening the lid causes fans to slow down, but CPU usage remains high and battery drains quick.
Any ideas what might cause this?
My MBP is 15" model with Core 2 Duo 2,66 GHz (MacBookPro 5,3), OS X version is 10.6.8, all available updates are installed.Perform a SMU reset.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Remove the anti-virus, it's running a root level process all the time that's taking your CPU and it's not necessary as there are no Mac viruses, Apple has the trojan angle covered already.
Always on anti-virus on a Mac is always a source of problems, also is MacKeeper, uninstall that here if you have it.
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
If you need to clean the Windows filth off PC files, then use the free, run as you need, ClamXav.
http://www.clamxav.com/
It seems your machine is used in a corporate enviroment, thus likely a rule that anti-virus must be used, you can avoid high CPU usuage by using the ClamXav instead. -
IMAC running very slow. Activity monitor shows hpdot4d using about 500% cpu. How can I fix this?
Using mavericks OS X 10.9.5
Help!Have restarted computer, process hpdot4d has disappeared. Have printed a page from HP printer but computer fine now.
Thanks. -
Memory shown in activity monitor is incorrect
why is the activity monitor showing a descrepancy with the physical memory installed?
Why do you think there is a discrepancy? If you click the apple on the menu bar, and about this mac, how much memory does it say you have? What does the activity monitor say you have (and where are you reading it from)?
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Recent upgrade slowing computer?
I recently installed an upgrade to Mavericks but the computer has become quite sluggish since then. I'm running OS X 10.9.5. I aslo backupped the computer too but can't imagine that affected its speed.
OK--I was able to follow your instructions until you asked for "any messages I've having trouble with"! Not sure how to tell what those may be but I'll paste a possible suspect here. It makes no sense to me but I hope this is what you are looking for. (BTW the word "wakeups" below reminds me that for several weeks now I have discovered that the computer had not been shut down entirely as I had assumed. Don't know if that relates to the general slowdown or not.) Thanks,
Denise
Date/Time: 2014-09-23 07:00:02 -0400
OS Version: 10.9.4 (Build 13E28)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 18
Command: Chrome
Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Version: 37.0.2062.122 (2062.122)
Parent: launchd [146]
PID: 156
Event: wakeups (microstackshots only)
Wakeups: 269 wakeups per second for 168 seconds
Duration: 168.00s
Steps: 180
Hardware model: iMac11,2
Active cpus: 4
Fan speed: 998 rpm
Powerstats for: Google Chrome [156]
Start time: 2014-09-23 07:00:04 -0400
End time: 2014-09-23 07:02:48 -0400
Parent: launchd
Microstackshots: 28 samples (15%)
Primary state: 20 samples Frontmost App, Non-Background Priority, User mode
User Activity: 0 samples Idle, 28 samples Active
Power Source: 0 samples on Battery, 28 samples on AC
24 ??? (Google Chrome + 3925) [0xbdf55]
24 main + 24 (Google Chrome) [0xbdf78]
24 ChromeMain + 53 (Google Chrome Framework) [0xc7b45]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 7653298) [0x8117b2]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 7655950) [0x81220e]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 7653690) [0x81193a]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 47226814) [0x2dcefbe]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 47253763) [0x2dd5903]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 47244032) [0x2dd3300]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 1022856) [0x1beb88]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 8289393) [0x8acc71]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 8193009) [0x8953f1]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 7889724) [0x84b33c]
24 ??? (Google Chrome Framework + 7892241) [0x84bd11]
24 -[NSApplication run] + 727 (AppKit) [0x9b3bf15c]
24 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119 (AppKit) [0x9b3cc870]
24 _DPSNextEvent + 1602 (AppKit) [0x9b3cd349]
24 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 92 (HIToolbox) [0x94bdf6bd]
24 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 526 (HIToolbox) [0x94bdf8e2]
24 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 259 (HIToolbox) [0x94bdfb5d]
24 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a1dd84b]
24 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 394 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a1dd9ea]
14 __CFRunLoopRun + 1779 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a1de353]
11 __CFRunLoopDoTimers + 349 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a2a106d]
6 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 1395 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a226863]
6 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a226ea6]
3 CAOpenGLLayer_timer_callback(__CFRunLoopTimer*, void*) + 91 (QuartzCore) [0x949b5142]
2 -[CAOpenGLLayer(CAOpenGLLayerPrivate) maximumFrameRate] + 67 (QuartzCore) [0x94ac2e9b]
2 CALayer_getter_kCAValueFloat + 42 (QuartzCore) [0x94aaaa8a]
1 CA::Layer::getter(unsigned int, _CAValueType, void*) + 14 (QuartzCore) [0x94955e3c]
1 CA::Transaction::ensure_compat() + 45 (QuartzCore) [0x9494ff07]
1 CA::Transaction::ensure_implicit() + 316 (QuartzCore) [0x949500c0]
1 CA::Transaction::push() + 372 (QuartzCore) [0x949505f8]
1 CA::Transaction::lock() + 1 (QuartzCore) [0x94954797]
1 CALayer_getter_kCAValueFloat + 1 (QuartzCore) [0x94aaaa61]
2 objc_msgSend_fpret + 48 (libobjc.A.dylib) [0x95583600]
1 objc_msgSend_fpret + 22 (libobjc.A.dylib) [0x955835e6]
2 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 557 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a22651d]
2 mk_timer_arm + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) [0x9848e0ca]
2 <Kernel mode>
1 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 2093 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a226b1d]
1 __CFRunLoopFindMode + 218 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a1b881a]
1 pthread_mutex_lock + 16 (libsystem_pthread.dylib) [0x9c0c97ac]
1 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 2763 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a226dbb]
1 __CFRepositionTimerInMode + 126 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a1e5dee]
1 mk_timer_arm + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) [0x9848e0ca]
1 <Kernel mode>
1 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 1536 (CoreFoundation) [0x9a2268f0] -
Random Problem: Mail Process 140% in Activity Monitor/1 IMAP Account
Hello,
A friend of mine is having some problems with his Mail Account. As stated in the title, the Mail process uses 140% of the CPU as shown in Activity Monitor, but it's a random error, it doesn't happen all the time. I believe he restarts the application to make it go away, as it slows down his computer, and the fan starts making a lot of noise.
He has:
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4
Mail 6.5 (1508)/No plugin
1 IMAP account
A few thousand emails between the inbox, sent and a few folders
There isn't any problem with the mail server.
I've checked his account parameters, they seem fine.
He can send/receive emails (He told me so, and I've checked by sending a mail from his account to his account).
Here are some lines from the log files:
+ ! 2 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _processResponsesWithMonitor:] (in IMAP) + 538 [0x7fff8d7a2b95]
+ ! : 1 -[IMAPResponse responseType] (in IMAP) + 15 [0x7fff8d7ac1af]
+ ! : 1 objc_msgSend (in libobjc.A.dylib) + 25 [0x7fff88ae9259]
+ ! 2 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _processResponsesWithMonitor:] (in IMAP) + 393,1057 [0x7fff8d7a2b04,0x7fff8d7a2d9c]
+ ! 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _processResponsesWithMonitor:] (in IMAP) + 111 [0x7fff8d7a29ea]
+ ! : 1 +[IMAPFramework userAgent] (in IMAP) + 72 [0x7fff8d79699b]
+ ! : 1 objc_sync_exit (in libobjc.A.dylib) + 23 [0x7fff88aed4e8]
+ ! : 1 id2data(objc_object*, usage) (in libobjc.A.dylib) + 709 [0x7fff88afddc4]
+ ! 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _processResponsesWithMonitor:] (in IMAP) + 606 [0x7fff8d7a2bd9]
+ ! 1 objc_msgSend (in libobjc.A.dylib) + 25 [0x7fff88ae9259]
+ 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _goWithMessages:] (in IMAP) + 808 [0x7fff8d7a2520]
+ ! 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _shouldContinueSyncingWithMonitor:] (in IMAP) + 73 [0x7fff8d7a2957]
+ ! 1 -[ActivityMonitor error] (in CoreMessage) + 1 [0x7fff89ce29fa]
+ 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _goWithMessages:] (in IMAP) + 1057 [0x7fff8d7a2619]
+ 1 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine isReset] (in IMAP) + 1 [0x7fff8d79cd57]
+ ! : 548 -[IMAPClientOperation main] (in IMAP) + 84 [0x7fff8d77cae3]
+ ! : | 547 -[IMAPGateway allowClientOperationThrough:] (in IMAP) + 369 [0x7fff8d797fd4]
+ ! : | + 546 -[IMAPGateway _allowClientOperationThrough:] (in IMAP) + 1237 [0x7fff8d798501]
+ ! : | + ! 546 -[IMAPConnection prepareAndExecuteOperation:outWrongState:] (in IMAP) + 1247 [0x7fff8d7859f5]
+ ! : | + ! 546 -[IMAPClientFetchOperation executeOnConnection:] (in IMAP) + 26 [0x7fff8d778ee2]
+ ! : | + ! 546 -[IMAPConnection executeFetch:] (in IMAP) + 44 [0x7fff8d78b3d1]
+ ! : | + ! 538 -[IMAPConnection _responseFromSendingOperation:] (in IMAP) + 863 [0x7fff8d78ba87]
+ ! : | + ! : 480 -[IMAPConnection _copyNextTaggedOrContinuationResponseForCommand:exists:] (in IMAP) + 551 [0x7fff8d7867eb]
+ ! : | + ! : | 472 -[IMAPConnection _copyNextServerResponse:] (in IMAP) + 55 [0x7fff8d78657a]
+ ! : | + ! : | + 281 -[IMAPResponse initWithConnection:error:] (in IMAP) + 608 [0x7fff8d7af5f8]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! 270 response_without_tag (in IMAP) + 237 [0x7fff8d7b166b]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : 67 fetch_response (in IMAP) + 2746 [0x7fff8d7b2b81]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | 44 createFlagsSet (in IMAP) + 159 [0x7fff8d7b4897]
+ ! : | + ! : | + 137 -[IMAPResponse initWithConnection:error:] (in IMAP) + 144 [0x7fff8d7af428]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! 129 -[IMAPConnection(MFPrivate) _readDataOfLength:intoData:error:] (in IMAP) + 112 [0x7fff8d78ce14]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : 126 -[IMAPConnection _readLineIntoData:error:] (in IMAP) + 53 [0x7fff8d786486]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | 90 -[Connection _readLineIntoData:error:] (in CoreMessage) + 202 [0x7fff89cf14f3]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + 90 -[Connection _fillBuffer:] (in CoreMessage) + 764 [0x7fff89cf1961]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + 90 -[Connection _readBytesFromSocketIntoBuffer:amount:requireAllBytes:error:] (in CoreMessage) + 76 [0x7fff89cf1a7b]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + 89 -[_NSSocket readBytes:length:error:] (in CoreMessage) + 161 [0x7fff89cd78cb]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + ! 50 _handleRequestWithTimeout (in CoreMessage) + 1717 [0x7fff89cd51a7]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + ! : 44 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) _removePort:forMode:] (in Foundation) + 460 [0x7fff8eb4513d]
+ ! : | + ! : | + ! : | + ! : | 40 ??? (in Mail) load address 0x1024e3000 + 0x45ff [0x1024e75ff]
Also, the Activity (in Mail I think) window shows that these lines:
Inbox/updating cache directory ; Fetching new mail ; Synchronizing with server/Getting unread counts ; Communicating with server/Inbox fetching
all end up with a red "stop sign" at the end.
He seems to have the latest version of Mail, so we can't update it, and he doesn't want to properly uninstall/reinstall the Mail program.
Please, if you have any idea on what we could do.
Thank you for your help.Step 1
Take this step only if you have more than one incoming mail account, and only some of them are affected by the problem.
From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences ▹ Accounts
From the account list on the left, choose one of the accounts that is not giving trouble. Select the Account Informationtab if not already selected, and then uncheck the box marked
Enable this account
Repeat with each of the other well-behaved accounts. Don't disable the problem accounts.
Step 2
From the Mail menu bar, select
Window ▹ Connection Doctor
Click the Show Detail button. A drawer opens. Click Check Again and post the text that appears. Anonymize any personal information before posting.
Step 3
If you took Step 1, re-enable the disabled accounts. -
Mountain Lion 10.8.3: Dock shows 100%+ CPU in Activity Monitor
I upgraded my 'early 2008' MBP from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 last week. Memory use seems to have increased with no real change in application usage — .CPU utilization seems similar, too. I have been watching Activity Monitor + vm_stat to see if I could identify any issues. I just noticed that the Dock process shows 100% CPU utilization in the detail section — even though the Activity Monitor summary stats show plenty of idle CPU cycles available. Swap activity is minimal — this all makes me question the validity and/or accuracy of the detailed stats shown in Activity Monitor. Any input or comment from the community?
TIA...
P.S. Activity Monitor screen shots are below. And no, I'm not running Parallels as per prior discussion https://discussions.apple.com/message/15596756#15596756 from 2011.My $HOME/Library/Preferences folder contained only two com.apple.dock.* files:
com.apple.doc.plist w/current date timestamp
com.apple.doc.plist.KBPCAn with two-month old date timestamp
Detailed examination of the com.apple.doc.plist parameters seemed to be correct with nothing abnormal.
The killall Dock command suggested by Kappy seemed to address the 100%+ CPU at first, but then it returned.
Three consecutive full system shutdown/restart cycles seems to have eliminated Activity Monitor showing the Dock process running @ 100%+ CPU after 24+ hours of operation. No changes were made to the content of com.apple.dock.plist. My best guess at this point is that my system's Dock process may have had a memory leak-type issue that is neither traceable or reproduceable at this point.
The Activity Monitor issue variance (Dock process detail @ 100%+ CPU despite the summary record showing idle CPU cycles available) isn't explained. It seems to me that the sum of the detailed Activity Monitor records should match the summary pie chart information presented.
Thanks to Kappy for the input and suggestion. Further comment/discussion WRT the Activity Monitor issue is most welcome... -
Weird - Activity Monitor Network Traffic vs iStat Traffic
With no applications running on my MacBook Pro, the Network tab of the Activity monitor is showing 'Data received/sec" toggling every second or so between 1.38 KB/s and 2.75 KB/s. It's showing the same numbers for 'Data sent/sec' as well. I can't figure out what is causing this network traffic. But if it's real, it's adding up to about 5 GB a month of bandwidth usage. My cap is only 60 GB so it's significant.
But when I use iStat or the Net Monitor app to monitor throughput, they show 0.0 traffic when the system is idle. Also, since last night Activity Monitor shows 322 MB data received and 99 MB data sent. While iStat shows 239 MB received and 16 MB sent.
So which is correct? Does Activity Monitor also include traffic that is internal to my network? Or do I have a phantom bandwidth hog somewhere?
Thanks for any insight to the weirdness.
JimThe switches at home and at work generally corroborate the activity shown by tcpdump / atMonitor / MenuMeters, not the continuous data flow shown by Activity Monitor. The MacBook Air I'm sitting at right now shows similar discrepancies, with traffic totals in Activity Monitor about 40x higher than those shown with the other tools and a steady and inexplicable (and by other means invisible) 29-34 KB/sec of both sent & received traffic. tcpdump shows periods of network silence between 2-15 seconds in length (in between DNS lookups; netbios syncs; ntp queries; ipp messages; http, pop, and imap messages; etc. happening in bursts as one would expect).
Changing Activity Monitor to refresh every half second shows the mystery traffic as a burst of 112 KB sent & received every two seconds--and no, that's not the same throughput as the 29-34 KB seen at 2-second refresh intervals. When I set refresh to every 5 seconds, the mystery throughput drops to 22 KB / sec. As the throughput varies depending on refresh interval, I wonder if I'm seeing internal loopback queries (or something of that sort) contributing to the totals. Is it possible that the mystery traffic is of AM's own creation, and only exists within the machine and is not actually sent on the network?
Lest we digress further into general network troubleshooting techniques, let me restate the question, perhaps a bit more clearly: has anyone else seen this traffic-volume discrepancy between the Activity Monitor's Network tab and other network monitoring tools, and does anyone have an explanation for it? -
Os x Mavericks - Activity Monitor won't display
after I upgraded my Mac Mini to Mavericks, I am unable to display the Activity Monitor. I have run the disk utility to repair permissions, and I've verified the drive. I've looked in the console for any error messages related to the launch of Activity Monitor and found none. The top menu bar for the activity monitor appears, and I can select the pull-down menus. My Macbook Air successfully upgraded to Mavericks, and the activity monitor works there.
Can anyone offer some help on this? Thanks.I've signed on with two different user id's and the activity monitor works perfectly. It must be something in this particular user id. Also, when I click on the Finder icon, the top bar greys out, but I can go to it and select "file - new finder window" and I get the finder window. What should I look for?
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Slow performance disk activity
My mac has slowed to almost a stop.
I hear lots of disk activity and when reviewing activity monitor I see lots of disk activity.
About 100 reads and writes a second
Any ideas of how to find out what is happening?First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
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.
Otherwise, take the steps below 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.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
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
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.
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.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long. -
Slow Mavericks and Activity Monitor Uselessness
The recent Mavericks update may have improved performance to some degree, but I'm still experiencing unusual slowness of apps often. One of the most irritating things is that the one app I except to help me shed light on the cause of the slowness, Activity Monitor, typically shows NO unusual heavy system load when I observe apps being slow.
For example, I click on + in Safari to create a new tab. I expect immediate response, an immediate new tab being open. Instead, it takes maybe 5 seconds, perhaps even 10 seconds. So, I immediately switch to the Activity Monitor window to see if I can identify what might have caused the slowness. I think that maybe the CPU become extremely overloaded during that brief period. But I see nothing in Activity Monitor to clue me in as to what the problem was.
To me, this means Activity Monitor is not monitoring relevant activities. I don't know why Safari is slow opening at tab, but whatever it is doing should be an activity that Activity Monitor monitors, since it obviously is something that takes the machine a lot of time to do.
Could a knowledgeable person in Apple's software department respond here and say something about why opening a new tab in Safari takes so long?
tedPlease read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of steps 1 and 2. -
I'm having a problem on my iMac early 2008 (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo 4gb SDRAM) after upgrading to Mac OS X Lion.
The animation such as mission control and full screen and especially, launch pad performs really slow.
Sometimes, mission control doesn't even show the animation.
This is terrible and I want Apple to fix these problems or otherwise this is just making my mac useless.
Does anyone experience having similar problem?thanks for the reply!
I've checked the activity monitor but nothing was taking up the space expect for Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in, which takes up 29% of CPU)
here's my screenshot. can you see any problems?
and here's another -
MacPro Quad Core 32g Ram running slow Logic using only 9g in Activity Monitor
Well its taken a while, but this is my first foray into the world of forums! I'm so hacked off with this regular problem and havent been able to find anything anywhere to solve it i thought i'd see if anyone has any similiar issues and maybe even a solve to it.
So.... im an orchestrator and producer and after my mid 2008 Macbook Pro with 8g ram started freezing up i invested in this 3 years ago -
Mac Pro 2x 2.4ghz Quad Core intel Xeon and stuck in 32gb of lovely Crucial RAM and 3 seperate internal 1TB drives with one for operating system (10.6.8), one for Audio recording/saving and one for all my sample libraries.
32gb ram - should be enough i thought!
So i regularly run at least 30 VI's - Ni The giant, Spitfire Orchestral librabies (say 12 string instruments up to 0.69g per load) LASS strings, plus perc STYLUS, ABBEY road drums, Trillian basses (acoustic/electric), ominisphere etc etc. So pretty hefty sample instruments. But theyre sooo nice!!
In addition, the 32 bit server will come alive (NOT! So unstable i find) with my Waves plugs etc.
Looking at ACTIVITY MONITOR however i might be not touching 9 gig (and sometimes even less) of usage for Logic, and only say 800MB for 32 bit server and have NOTHING else open - and what do i find .....
- Mouse lag and cant really do anything with the mouse whilst playing the track - cant adjust volume - too slow, zooming problems
- Takes a good 2-3 seconds for track to stop playing
Dont get System OVERLOADS so much, its just that the system goes REALLLLLY slow.
What ive tried- - -
- Running Mountain Lion off another drive (havent had time to install it and wanted to be sure everything worked etc)
- Tried all audio prefs - large/small buffers/threads etc and yes i am on 1024.
in a nutshell how come with 32g RAM everything is so slow when barely using 10g of that???????
I dread getting to the end of a project cos i know im gonna be freezing so much, but with so much editing all the time for the orchestral parts i need everything unfrozen and working.
Sorry if this is long winded but wanted to describe what im experiencing.
Any feedback most welcome! Thankyou in advance.
Mac Pro 2x 2.4ghz Quad Core intel Xeon 32g RAM, 3TB storage
10.6.8
Logic Pro 9.1.8Hi
A few thoughts:
julian6400 wrote:
In addition, the 32 bit server will come alive (NOT! So unstable i find) with my Waves plugs etc.
The 32bit server is a pita: Waves v9 are 64bit compatible (they run fine). 32 bit VI's can be run outside Logic using Vienna Ensemble Pro (see later)
julian6400 wrote:
So i regularly run at least 30 VI's - Ni The giant, Spitfire Orchestral librabies (say 12 string instruments up to 0.69g per load) LASS strings, plus perc STYLUS, ABBEY road drums, Trillian basses (acoustic/electric), ominisphere etc etc. So pretty hefty sample instruments. But theyre sooo nice!!
Some of these VI's are extremely CPU hungry: Abbey Rd drums for example, really do hammer the CPU. What does Logic's Performance meter show in the way of CPU load. What does Activity Monitor show regarding CPU load?
With 32G of RAM, this should not be the issue, but you might have general CPU problems (see above), and you may also have Sample disk streaming limitations if all the Loibraries you mention are on the same drive. How does Activity Monitor look regarding disk access? You might find it helpful to add a second drive and split the sample libraries across 2 for faster disk access.
I presume that you have plenty of free space on the System drive?
Logic can get sluggish if the Undo info gets way too big, and also if there are loads of regions in the Arrange: check Options:Project Information.
Many are finding some benefits (me included) by running the VI's in Vienna Ensemble Pro:
Better CPU load distribution than directly in Logic
"Persistant Samples": they can remain loaded whilst you switch Logic Projects
Logic is effectively running much less itself, so generally flies.
32bit Plugs hosted separately in VEP so no 32bit Bridge issues in Logic
Something to consider,though perhaps not yet, would be setting up a Slave computer using VEP.
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i recently upgraded to Lion and i find that my computer is running slow and applications are crashing. For example I have Word 2011 for Mac and it crashes all the time I end up losing my work. It often happens when I'm in class using notebook and when I press record my computer starts thinking and it freezes.
Also, I feel that it overheats often and my battery runs out pretty quickly. I had the macbook (black) and this never happened before. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if there is something with my computer.I bought my computer summer 2010, I don't think this should be happening. Please Help......This is exactly what keeps happening to mine too. I was at a conference taking notes, and I was
using the Notebook template, and doing some audio recording simultaneously. About 3 hours into the conference (not consistently recording, but on and off with the sessions) my file wouldn't save anymore, saying something like "File cannot be modified while in use with another program" and "Invalid file name" when I would go back into my folder to look for it). I tried installing some updates from Microsoft, and when I restarted, I was at least able to open my old notes again, and so far it looks like the audio was working. However, today at the conference, the same thing happened again, but I wasn't actively recording any audio (though after I had copy and pasted my second file of notes into the original, I went back to using it after re-naming it).
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Activity Monitor: activites created before upgrade not displayed
Hi experts,
After upgrade from CRM4 to CRM7, the activity monitor (tcode S_AE2_89000019) is not working proprely. After several tests and analysis, we came to the conclusion that the logical database CRMLDB_ACT_MON used by the SAP Query of the Activity monitor is not fetching all results.
It seems that activities created after upgrade are well fetched. Old activities are not fetched
Has someone experimented the same problem?
Is there a specific action to perform on logical databases after upgrade?
Thanks in advance for your helpHi Manfred,
Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately we haven't upgraded to Web UI yet..
I found the solution, I'm posting it just in case someone else is facing the same problem: CRMD_ORDER_INDEX is a table that consolidate orders data in order to make reports faster in CRM. This table is not updated after Upgrade, you need to run the program CRM_INDEX_REBUILD to have this table updated.
Many reports us this table. This report update data in new and obsolete tables as well (BUT021 and BUT021_FS)
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