Slow, Slow, quick quick, slow.

Here in the UK the Communities Support pages were down for 10 hours today for maintenance. Whatever they did that took so long seems to have reacted badly on the system. Moving from section to section, even page to page has suddenly become very slow most of the time ... with just the occasional flash of speed.
So what did they do and am I alone with this nuisance?

Hello ~Bee,
Fine by me, in fact something of a pleasure; I've added 4 years since I coined that name! Tell me, is there a link that tells me what Apple actually did that took all that time, what the improvements were.
Interesting that Klaus1 from southern England found a similar nuisance.

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I am having the same problem. Did turning off iCloud work? Did you just turn everything off or did you actually delete the account off your iPod?

How do I change the settings so my computer doesn't time-out so quickly when I'm trying to send an e-mail and the internet's a bit slow?

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Pat Spelrem

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Macbook 2GHz 2GB upgraded to Lion 10.7.4 - Now slow, heats up quickly and regularly stops responding

I have a 2008 Macbook 2GHz 2GB that initially ran on Snow Leopard, and I upgraded it to Lion about 6 months ago. Since the upgrade, it has become slow to start up, open programmes and regularly stops responding - especially when I'm on the Internet - leaving me with the processing colourwheel, and forcing me to turn it off by the button.
I have tried repairing permissions and it doesn't seem to make a difference, could it just be that I don't have enough RAM (only 2GB) to run Lion? I don't want to revert back to Snow Leopard because I sync my laptop with my phone using iCloud, and Snow Leopard would complicate that.
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Honestly I would never run both Win 7 & XP at the same time in a VM. 7 needs at least 4GB to run properly and uses more resources then XP.
I personally use VMware Fusion and XP. At this time there is no software, that I'm aware of or use, that does not run on XP. So for my Mac Win VM purpose I only run XP with the software in need to use in Windows. This work very well for me. I have 2 CPUs and 3GBs of RAM assigned to XP. Leaving the other 2 CPU cores, 4 HT cores, and 5GBs of RAM for OS X.
Not sure why you need, or want, to run both versions of Windows at the same time. I don't see the need as stated above.

About 50% of the time Firefox is extremely slow loading any google scripts/search, all other scripts/search load quickly. Been happening for about a month now.

A month or so ago FF starting taking forever to load any page using Google scripts, also Google search. Not always, about half the time, the other half the time FF works fine. Can go on and off like this three or four times a day. No discernible pattern. Pages without Google scripts and other search engines (Bing, Yahoo) always load fine with FF, only Google doesn't. Even while FF is slooowwwly loading Google scripts/searches, Chrome and IE load the same scripts and searches quickly with no problems. WTF?

I had this problem, I checked my add-ons one by one as suggested and it was the Avast online security add-on slowing me down on Google. Disabled it and FF works ok.
No idea why the avast add-on would do that? Still using the full version of avast but not the add-on.

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I'm interest about same thing. Clipboard is often only way to migrate lists between sharepoint versions and now it is almost unpossible to use.

Computer is very slow, doesn't follow through on commands, and dies quickly. Any diagnoses would be greatly appreciated!

I've had a used MacBook Pro for the last two years. In the past 6 months it has taken a turn for the worst: slow, doesn't follow trough on commands, quits applications, dies very quickly, and safari has gone to ****. Safari feels like dial -up at this point: it loads very slowly if at all, can't handle multiple tasks, and requires constant reloading. I have moved a lot of my documents, all photos, some music, and whatever else I could put into an external hard drive and it hasn't changed anything . My desktop is clear and I never have more than 4 apps going at a time- honestly doesn't make a difference how many are open but I don't want to over work the poor thing. I have also tried checking the utility disk/drive thing, and "cleaned" my hard drive. What is the problem? Am I due for an upgrade or is my laptop on its last legs ? I have the 2nd to latest software on my computer. Any answer would be greatly Appreciated !

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Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
While investigating the problem, you may have started the computer in "safe" mode. If possible, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing. If you can only boot in safe mode, you can still use this procedure, but not all of it will work. Be sure to mention that in your reply, if you haven't already done so.
Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. The commands are safe and do nothing but produce human-readable output, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. I am not asking you to trust me. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal 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 Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
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Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && printf '\n%s:\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
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To prevent confusion, I'll repeat: When you type your password in the Terminal window, you won't see what you're typing.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
Important: If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of these commands, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
Remember, Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your password. Also remember to post the output.

RAM Used up quickly, Macbook Pro Becomes Slow

Over the past week or so I've noticed my Macbook Pro getting increasingly slower as the day goes by. Looking in activity monitor, my free RAM is often under a couple hundred MBs - and too often below 50MB. Figuring that I just had to clear up some inactive RAM left over from other programs, I purged the inactive RAM, but only to have it get used up again within minutes.
This hasn't ever been a problem to me in the past year that I've had my Macbook Pro, but now it becomes unresponsive very quickly. As an experiment, I booted up my laptop, and even then I had less than a GB of free RAM (never had that little upon bootup before). The only programs I have setup to start on boot are iTunes Helper, Caffiene, and Mail (Hidden). This hasn't changed in at least six months, so I know it's not one of these causing the RAM hogging.
Here is a log of my current Activity Monitor stats- after rebooting about an hour ago, the only programs I've opened were Chrome, iTunes, and Firefox. Everything was fine for a few minutes, then I noticed severe slow down and massive RAM loss, in addition to the cooling fans exceeding 6000rpm for a short while. Does anything here look abnormal?
*I should also note that I've verified the startup disk and repaired permissions, and the Page in/Page Out ratio is fine.
Active Memory: 1.23 GB
Free Memory: 30.3 MB
Wired Memory: 885.5 MB
Used Memory: 3.97 GB
Inactive Memory: 1.87 GB
Total VM: 219.16 GB
Number of processes: 93
PID    Process Name              User       CPU      Real Mem        Virtual Mem
0      kernel_task               root       1.9      339.3 MB        4.77 GB
1      launchd                   root       0.0      1.8 MB          2.36 GB
10     kextd                     root       0.0      4.3 MB          2.35 GB
11     UserEventAgent            root       0.0      8.6 MB          2.38 GB
12     mDNSResponder             _mdnsrespo 0.0      3.1 MB          2.37 GB
13     opendirectoryd            root       0.1      8.5 MB          2.38 GB
14     notifyd                   root       0.0      1.1 MB          2.35 GB
15     configd                   root       0.0      4.5 MB          2.38 GB
16     diskarbitrationd          root       0.0      1.6 MB          2.35 GB
17     fseventsd                 root       0.1      6.2 MB          2.37 GB
18     syslogd                   root       0.0      980 KB          2.36 GB
19     powerd                    root       0.0      2.1 MB          2.37 GB
20     distnoted                 root       0.0      1.7 MB          2.35 GB
25     blued                     root       0.0      3.2 MB          2.37 GB
27     securityd                 root       0.0      6.0 MB          2.37 GB
28     coreservicesd             root       0.2      17.9 MB         2.39 GB
49     ntpd                      root       0.0      1.4 MB          2.32 GB
51     warmd                     nobody     0.0      3.6 MB          2.36 GB
52     usbmuxd                   _usbmuxd   0.0      3.3 MB          2.36 GB
54     SystemStarter             root       0.0      1.0 MB          2.35 GB
56     stackshot                 root       0.0      1.2 MB          2.35 GB
59     revisiond                 root       0.0      2.4 MB          2.36 GB
63     mds                       root       0.2      87.8 MB         2.74 GB
65     loginwindow               AMay       0.0      18.8 MB         2.44 GB
67     KernelEventAgent          root       0.0      1.0 MB          2.35 GB
68     kdc                       root       0.0      2.8 MB          2.35 GB
70     hidd                      root       0.1      1.8 MB          2.35 GB
72     dynamic_pager             root       0.0      712 KB          2.32 GB
77     autofsd                   root       0.0      1.8 MB          2.35 GB
79     applepushserviced         root       0.0      7.1 MB          2.37 GB
80     aosnotifyd                root       0.0      4.8 MB          2.37 GB
82     SophosAntiVirus           root       0.1      3.2 MB          640.3 MB
83     InterCheck                root       0.2      142.2 MB        773.5 MB
84     SophosAutoUpdate          root       0.0      9.3 MB          640.8 MB
86     licenseDaemon             root       0.0      4.9 MB          2.36 GB
87     TechToolProDaemon         root       0.0      3.4 MB          644.8 MB
88     qmasterd                  root       0.0      6.8 MB          645.6 MB
102    WindowServer              _windowser 6.5      56.0 MB         2.93 GB
103    netbiosd                  _netbios   0.0      2.2 MB          2.37 GB
118    CVMServer                 root       0.0      1,000 KB        2.33 GB
128    logind                    root       0.0      1.7 MB          2.35 GB
134    launchd                   AMay       0.0      1.2 MB          2.36 GB
136    coreaudiod                _coreaudio 1.2      4.9 MB          2.37 GB
138    UserEventAgent            AMay       0.0      9.8 MB          2.38 GB
140    distnoted                 AMay       0.0      3.4 MB          2.36 GB
145    Dock                      AMay       0.0      17.0 MB         2.44 GB
146    talagent                  AMay       0.0      7.3 MB          2.39 GB
147    SystemUIServer            AMay       0.0      28.6 MB         2.48 GB
148    Finder                    AMay       0.1      19.6 MB         2.43 GB
150    pboard                    AMay       0.0      912 KB          2.32 GB
158    fontd                     AMay       0.0      5.1 MB          2.40 GB
161    com.apple.dock.extra      AMay       0.0      10.9 MB         2.40 GB
163    warmd_agent               AMay       0.0      1.7 MB          2.35 GB
167    imagent                   AMay       0.0      5.2 MB          2.37 GB
172    SophosUIServer            AMay       0.1      11.4 MB         687.5 MB
175    Logitech Control Center D AMay       0.0      8.1 MB          2.40 GB
176    LaunchdDaemon             AMay       0.0      1.4 MB          618.9 MB
180    SpotifyWebHelper          AMay       0.0      3.3 MB          639.3 MB
182    Folder Actions Dispatcher AMay       0.0      6.4 MB          2.40 GB
186    iTunes Helper             AMay       0.0      3.6 MB          2.37 GB
187    Caffeine                  AMay       0.0      8.7 MB          2.40 GB
188    Mail                      AMay       0.0      60.1 MB         3.53 GB
196    cookied                   AMay       0.0      1.2 MB          2.35 GB
204    TechToolProAgent          AMay       0.0      9.3 MB          18.43 GB
215    mdworker                  AMay       0.1      29.9 MB         2.39 GB
255    AppleSpell.service        AMay       0.2      3.1 MB          2.38 GB
289    DashboardClient           AMay       0.0      12.6 MB         672.9 MB
290    DashboardClient           AMay       0.0      36.9 MB         3.43 GB
292    Google Chrome             AMay       0.0      84.4 MB         989.1 MB
297    Google Chrome Helper      AMay       0.0      10.4 MB         740.3 MB
299    Google Chrome Worker      AMay       0.0      69.3 MB         785.7 MB
300    Google Chrome Worker      AMay       0.0      26.4 MB         757.4 MB
301    Google Chrome Worker      AMay       0.0      27.7 MB         758.7 MB
471    Firefox                   AMay       0.2      357.6 MB        3.65 GB
485    Firefox Plugin Process (S AMay       0.8      48.8 MB         2.58 GB
486    VDCAssistant              root       0.0      5.2 MB          2.37 GB
739    iTunes                    AMay       3.1      72.3 MB         2.53 GB
746    Last.fm                   AMay       1.9      23.1 MB         767.4 MB
748    ath                       AMay       0.0      3.4 MB          2.37 GB
751    AppleMobileDeviceHelper   AMay       0.0      8.8 MB          2.37 GB
783    Quick Look Helper         AMay       0.0      9.5 MB          2.88 GB
841    automountd                root       0.0      2.1 MB          2.36 GB
877    Activity Monitor          AMay       11.6     25.7 MB         2.44 GB
878    taskgated                 root       0.0      2.7 MB          2.37 GB
880    xpchelper                 AMay       0.0      4.6 MB          2.35 GB
881    SyncServer                AMay       0.0      9.9 MB          2.38 GB
884    activitymonitord          root       0.7      1.4 MB          2.33 GB
885    launchdadd                root       0.0      1.7 MB          2.35 GB
886    launchd                   _spotlight 0.0      852 KB          2.36 GB
888    mdworker                  _spotlight 0.0      6.3 MB          2.38 GB
889    distnoted                 _spotlight 0.0      1.1 MB          2.35 GB
890    xpchelper                 _spotlight 0.0      4.4 MB          2.36 GB
891    CVMCompiler               AMay       0.0      20.5 MB         2.35 GB

Thomas - yes, the page outs are less than 10% of the page ins, your site was actually what made me take a look at that haha.The reason that I'm concerned about my free RAM is that it has never been this low, and I like having a certain amount of RAM free when I run certain programs (ex. Ableton Live, a music production program, where ~500MB of RAM is needed to load some drum samples).
I had just installed Sophos Anti-Virus a few hours before my post, so that's probably running at startup along with a few others, which I will have to take a look at. Are there any other startup processes that you noticed that I should look into?
Lastly, I installed Final Cut Pro 7 about a week and a half ago. I only open it maybe three days out of the week, so I didn't think that's what would be causing it. However, there may be some background processes that are running even when the actual program isn't running. Can you spot anything like that?
updating the Mac OS X version was the fix for it.
I eventually will udgrade to Mountain Lion, but I would like to get this fixed first. I'm also looking at buying more RAM, but up until recently, 4GB was working fine. I couldn't have everything running, but the programs that I did have open ran fine.
Simple stop leaving program open that you are done using. Make sure you close the Program and not just close the window that the program is using. By default most Mac programs do not close when you close the window they are using. You have to manual close, Quit, those programs.
That's the thing though- I always close programs that I am not using (cmd+q, not just closing the window). I come from a Windows background, so closing a program entirely became a quick habit of mine!

Why my quick selection tool on photoshop is slow on my mac

why my quick selection tool on photoshop is slow on my mac

BOILERPLATE TEXT:
Note that this is boilerplate text.
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as:
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
A screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

Incoming email to my Mac is incredibly slow - yet I receive it quickly on my iPhone - any suggestions?

Incoming email to my iMac is incredibly slow - yet the emails download quickly to my iPhone - any suggestions? Thanks

This is an update from mariefromarnold:
I am now unable to download email to both my iMac and my MacBook Pro. I have accessed my verizon.net account directly and all of the emails are there. The issue appears to be that the messages will not download to either of these machines - they do download directly to both iPhones. Any suggestions? Thanks

Illustrator cc 2014 running slow, how can I make it quicker?

illustrator cc 2014 running slow, how can I make it quicker? file size is only 45.7 meg, I've newly installed a 512 gig solid state drive and 8 meg of ram into a mid 2009 Macbook pro. Surely it can go quicker than this.... help please.

Try This first...
Close All Open Apps... Perform a Reset... Try again...
Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Release the Buttons.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Also consider Deleting any Apps you have Purchased / Downloaded but you now never use..
If no joy...
Connect to iTunes on the computer you usually Sync with and “ Restore “...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

Any slow opening of CS4 Illustrator files that should open quickly normally? Tiger 10.4.11 OS

My production team is experiencing slow opening of relatively small files in Illustrator - the work around is to restart and then the same files open quickly. I ran system software upgrades recently, could this cause conflict with CS4? Photoshop does not act this way at all. We are a gift manufacturing company and some of our files are relatively large. I ran disc utilities to repair permissions and still slow opening.

My production team is experiencing slow opening of relatively small files in Illustrator - the work around is to restart and then the same files open quickly. I ran system software upgrades recently, could this cause conflict with CS4? Photoshop does not act this way at all. We are a gift manufacturing company and some of our files are relatively large. I ran disc utilities to repair permissions and still slow opening.

Saving after editing in elements 8 - this is painfully slow, including waiting through the "not responding" message, though after quick editing in organiser saving is very quick - what is the problem?

saving after editing in elements 8 - this is painfully slow, including waiting through the "not responding" message, though after quick editing in organiser saving is very quick - what is the problem?

None of my pictures that I uploaded into iPhoto are in my Finder under Pictures. Should I copy and paste my folders from iPhoto into here, in case something happens to my iPhoto program (in addition to backing them up onto an external hard drive like I already do)?
No, that's just wasting space. A back up needs to be on a different disk.
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When i open safari it is very slow but once it has opened i can switch web sites very quick, can anyone tell me why.

I have a problem when i open Safari.it takes a few minutes to open, the home page opens but if i try to open ( say Amazon) it just sits there for more minutes before opening ,but once it has opened i can switch from web site to web site very quick.can anyone tell me why this and is there anything i can do to

Try changing the "Top Sites shows:" to the smallest number possible. Safari is loading these sites when its starts so it can give you an image of what the site looks like when you start blank new window. A smaller number of sites will make that quicker, assuming the top sites do not have a very slow site in the mix.

Macbook Pro running slow and getting hot very quick

So I own a macbook pro, and i bought it last november. Lately its been running really slow, and it gets hot really quickly.
when i go to look at my storage, it says i have 435.14 GB free out of 499.25 GB so i dont think space is an issue.
What can i do to fix this? I can't get on my macbook for longer than 10 minutues without it getting hot, and it takes me forever to load pages, etc.
It's still fairly new so i dont see why i would be having problems already. I only really use it for school and some misc web surfing. can someone help me out please!

You are still under warranty. Call Apple tech support. Let them deal w/it.

Slow editting channel in arrangement, but quick with mixer open

Hi,
A few weeks ago i freshly reinstalled Lion on my MacPro, because it was responding slow in Loepard even after upgrading my MacPro from 4 to 16GB and working in 64-bit mode. Unfortunately i still have the same problem. Please see also post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4103719
USB Connected:
Axiom Pro 49
Virus TI
FireWIre Connected:
Apogee Duet Firewire,
Specs:
Mac Pro
Mac OS X (10.7.4)
2x 2.26 Ghz Quad Core
16GB
The problem:
Logic 9 is responding really slow. Mute, Solo, copying, dragging, loading an instrument.
It all works with seconds in between, even moving the mouse a bit after pressing solo it will press the button where you are on at the moment after. All in 64 bit Logic 9.
The strange thing is, when i open the mixer (x on my keyboard) editiing a chanell and press solo, mute or load any effect or plugins its does work like it should! Quick! Instant!
When i play a project, the CPU peaks to the max but the HD indication remains almost zero. Loading to many plugins will make Logic even slower, but i'm running 64 bit mode and with 16GB. Checking Activity monitor, and only about 4 GB is in use. See screenshots below.
I did al possible thing read on forums, reorganising memory, undo steps, disk repairs, and so on. Spent hours reading the net...
So what could it be?
THANKS!
Quintin

Who knows. Apparently faster doesn't mean faster. As can be seen in the thread below.
Why does timer code (by dbasnett) no longer work splendidly?
So an application is written in VB2010 and uses and is distributed with during install apparently an Access 2003 database which runs fast on startup on Windows 8 or maybe Windows 8.1 some style of PC yet the same app installed on Windows 7 PC's
either 32 or 64 bit doesn't run fast on startup.
Have you tried compiling the app to x86 to see if that alters its startup performance?
La vida loca

Slow, Slow, quick quick, slow.

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