Spinning beach ball when waking up from screen saver or sleep

A few months ago, my ancient (Quicksilver G4) Mac started giving me a spinning beach ball for a few seconds every time I wake it up from sleep or from the screen saver. It lasts anywhere from about 5 to 20 seconds. It never used to do this. The problem has continued despite a recent upgrade form 10.3.9 to 10.4.10. Repairing permissions and resetting PRAM hasn't helped. Any ideas?

Well... I tried many of those things in the search results, and nothing changed initially... i.e. after changing desktop backgrounds (which is all it seemed to take on my mini), and then changing passwords, I continued to not be prompted for my password until I restarted. Logging out might've worked as well, but I just went gung ho and went right for the restart.

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I performed a clean installation of Snow Leopard on my new 13 inch late 2009 MBP on release date. All of a sudden, I am getting the infamous spinning beach ball when attempting to disable my Airport wifi. It's so bad, that I am not able to gracefully restart my system. Seriously this is getting out of hand. Snow Leopard was supposed to make Leopard even more stable.
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Whenever I load a Logic project I get the spinning beach ball. After a while, the project is loaded and it all works, but it is taken way too long to load the plugins. I'm not even talking about big projects, and I have an SSD, so it should be much faster.
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thanks for your reply.
Like I said, this is a complete fresh install – I installed OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 from a USB installer, and re-downloaded Logic Pro X from the App Store. That's all. That means there's no 3rd party plugins, no 3rd party drivers, nothing, just the stock OS X system.
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EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 09. April 2015 16:30:01 MESZ
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.
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    32 GB RAM Upgradeable
        DIMM 1
            16 GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz ok
        DIMM 2
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        DIMM 3
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        DIMM 4
            Empty
        DIMM 5
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        DIMM 6
            Empty
        DIMM 7
            Empty
        DIMM 8
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    AMD Radeon HD 7950 - VRAM: 3072 MB
        LED Cinema Display 2560 x 1440
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        Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
    Apple Inc. Apple LED Cinema Display
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    Apple Inc. Display Audio
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        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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    [failed]    com.apple.uhfu.ledcinemadisplayaudio.plist
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Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
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3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
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Time Machine: ℹ️
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         1%    WindowServer
         1%    Logic Pro X
         1%    coreaudiod
         1%    fontd
         1%    sysmond
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
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    137 MB    mds_stores
    137 MB    Safari
    103 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
    103 MB    WindowServer
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    573 MB    Inactive RAM
    1.77 GB    Wired RAM
    491 MB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs
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Okay, apparently there *is* a little problem. This part here:
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I believed this was normal because my audio output was set to the external USB audio interface when I ran the test, but I ran it again with the sound output set to the Cinema Display, and this message still appeared. When I click the Information symbol, it says:
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