Spinning Beach Ball/ Indexing Won't Complete

I turned on my Mac one morning, and as I opened programs, webpages ect. the spinning beach ball would appear, and my Mac would be momentarily frozen. This happened out of no where. I then noticed that the Spotlight indexing had not completed, and would remain at the same completion rate. Would this have anything to do with my Mac constantly freezing up(spinning beach ball), and if so, what can I do to fix it?

Hi,
As the problem of spinning beach ball is very general and board, see http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html for general troubleshooting.
Cheers and welcome to the discussions.
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Identifier:      mds
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
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Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: Main compaction scheduler
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May 20 22:34:36 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: yukon: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:f3:2d:f8
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:c6:5c:bd
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
May 20 22:35:00 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
May 20 22:35:01 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Warning - com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: replay_journal: from: 10576896 to: 11386880 (joffset 0xfa2000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: replay_journal: from: 28380160 to: 29163008 (joffset 0x1c30000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:04 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: replay_journal: from: 8115712 to: 510464 (joffset 0xf1000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: replay_journal: from: 8181760 to: 9530880 (joffset 0x5af000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleYukon2]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,af48,0de1,0200,cde1,7800]
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: replay_journal: from: 12537856 to: 13320704 (joffset 0x322000)
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:07 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: replay_journal: from: 7915520 to: 310272 (joffset 0x18c000)
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Auth result for: 18:f4:6a:5b:66:cf MAC AUTH succeeded
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 58208256 to: 58503168 (joffset 0x4096e000)
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:12 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: BootCache: hit rate below threshold (3266 hits on 6533 lookups)

Nope. But when OS X Lion came out, the forever spinning beach ball stopped. I have yet to be forced to power re-start my iMac because of this since upgrading to OS X Lion. Now only programs generate it, when using a lot of memory.

Spinning Beach Ball

Recently my early 2011 MacBook Pro would start freezing up, usually with a Spinning Beach Ball. This can happen a few times an hour that requires rebooting. Sometimes the cursor would just freeze. Mr. Linc Davis, on June 2, 2013, suggested copying some information from the Console, that just preceeded the line with BOOT_TIME. I have done so below. Can anyone detect what my problem is from the Console information? Thanks
5/1/14 1:31:39.889 PM mds[40]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7fa78c914000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.NYPs0d
5/1/14 1:34:24.825 PM WindowServer[94]: _CGXSetWindowBackgroundBlurRadius: Invalid window 0xffffffff
5/1/14 1:34:24.886 PM loginwindow[44]: find_shared_window: WID -1
5/1/14 1:34:24.886 PM loginwindow[44]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
5/1/14 1:34:24.886 PM loginwindow[44]: find_shared_window: WID -1
5/1/14 1:34:24.887 PM loginwindow[44]: CGSSetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff
5/1/14 1:34:25.066 PM Chronicle[251]: Selected Index Loaded: 0
5/1/14 1:34:25.081 PM Chronicle[251]: All Bills Loaded
5/1/14 1:34:25.126 PM WindowServer[94]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x7fc710768a50(2000), shield 0x7fc71061d960(2001)
5/1/14 1:34:25.143 PM WindowServer[94]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x7fc710768a50(2000), shield 0x7fc71061d960(2001)
5/1/14 1:34:25.236 PM Chronicle[251]: EXPECTED BALANCE
5/1/14 1:34:26.323 PM sandboxd[100]: ([232]) coreaudiod(232) deny file-read-data /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Flip4Mac WMA Import.component
5/1/14 1:34:26.396 PM sandboxd[100]: ([232]) coreaudiod(232) deny file-read-metadata /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Flip4Mac WMA Import.component/Contents
5/1/14 1:34:26.469 PM sandboxd[100]: ([232]) coreaudiod(232) deny file-read-metadata /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Flip4Mac WMA Import.component
5/1/14 1:34:45.013 PM loginwindow[44]: CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction; set CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=1 in environment to log backtraces.
5/1/14 1:35:55.229 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Starting automatic backup
5/1/14 1:35:56.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1398976558
5/1/14 1:35:56.801 PM com.apple.mtmd[39]: Set snapshot time: 2014-05-01 13:35:58 -0700 (current time: 2014-05-01 13:35:56 -0700)
5/1/14 1:35:57.092 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Steve%20MYLAST NAME;[email protected]/Data
5/1/14 1:35:57.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleSRP started.
5/1/14 1:35:57.988 PM NetAuthSysAgent[384]: TUAMHandler::SetUAMType setting UAMType to 13
5/1/14 1:36:13.762 PM mds[40]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7fa78c823000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Data
5/1/14 1:36:13.791 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://Steve%20Mylastname;[email protected]/Data
5/1/14 1:36:34.000 PM kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
5/1/14 1:36:35.728 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/Steve’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
5/1/14 1:36:36.373 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Backing up to /dev/disk2s2: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
5/1/14 1:36:48.728 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
5/1/14 1:36:49.579 PM com.apple.backupd[382]: Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
5/1/14 1:36:55.082 PM parentalcontrolsd[417]: StartObservingFSEvents [849:] -- *** StartObservingFSEvents started event stream
5/1/14 1:37:08.851 PM pacemaker[191]: error reading drift value from file /var/db/ntp.drift
5/1/14 1:38:23.737 PM pacemaker[191]: no drift value available, exiting
5/1/14 1:40:36.497 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:36.498 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:36.498 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:36.567 PM loginwindow[44]: ERROR | -[LWBuiltInScreenLockAuthLion closeAuthAndReset:] | Attempted to remove an observer when not observing
5/1/14 1:40:36.795 PM WindowServer[94]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [823063370429]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake
5/1/14 1:40:36.797 PM WindowServer[94]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
5/1/14 1:40:40.402 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:40.402 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:40.402 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:42.331 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:42.331 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:42.331 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:43.812 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:43.813 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:43.813 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:48.082 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:48.082 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:48.083 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:53.830 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:53.831 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:53.831 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:40:53.897 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100017 created
5/1/14 1:40:58.472 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:40:58.472 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:40:58.473 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:41:06.127 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:41:06.127 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:41:06.127 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:41:12.888 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowTransformAtPlacement
5/1/14 1:41:12.888 PM Check Off[242]: CGSTranslatePointForWindow
5/1/14 1:41:12.888 PM Check Off[242]: CGSGetWindowBounds
5/1/14 1:48:35.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1398977315 0

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

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