Sudden Slow Down

Yesterday morning (6/10), for no apparent reason, my iMac G5 began to perform very slowly. Documents and applications are taking longer than usual to open and close. Occasionally, working online will cause the computer to freeze up altogether - forcing me to shut down and restart it using the on/off button.
The problem seems to be intermittent. The computer will work normally for an hour or so, but then the slow down will suddenly return.
I have restarted the computer several times over the past 24 hours, hoping the reboot will fix it, but it does not seem to make a difference.
I can't think of anything that I have done recently that might cause such a problem - my use of the computer has been pretty consistent. There are 84 GB still available on my hard drive.
Any ideas what might be causing this? Any tips on how to troubleshoot the problem? Thanks!

Your system info changed regarding your OS. Which OS do you have, 10.5.2 or 10.4.9?
How much RAM do you have?
I don't use Mail however, delete all messages you no longer need. Check your Sent box & delete those also.
Empty the Trash & also Compact the emails/folders.
Not sure Onyx does all the above for you. I use the free version of NetShred X which does all the work for you.
Surprised Font Nuke froze out your computer. Are you sure you downloaded v1.1.5? Anyhow, I believe Onyx will delete font caches.
You can also check & delete all duplicate fonts.
Check for duplicate fonts.
Applications>Font Book
Select “All Fonts”
If you see any “black dots” next to any fonts this mean you have duplicates and/or multiple versions of these fonts.
To clean this up, select a “black dotted” font or the Apple + click to select multiple dotted fonts;
Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.
What the above does is turns off the duplicates & multiple version fonts. Not delete them.
More than likely the “extras” were installed by other programs and/or other users.
*Regarding iTunes:*
Make sure you have the latest version & check out the iTunes for Mac Forums

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Back up your Mac if you have not done so already. To learn how to use Time Machine read Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support.
Update OS X. Version 10.10.3 is the current release. To learn how to update OS X read Update OS X and App Store apps on your Mac - Apple Support.
Remove the following garbage from your Mac.
"MacKeeper"
"Sophos"
"Symantec / Norton"
"Trusteer Rapport"
Your Mac cannot operate properly with those products installed.
One or more of the following support documents may be applicable:
Uninstall Norton Internet Security for Mac
Removing Symantec programs for Macintosh by using the RemoveSymantecMacFiles removal utility
RemoveSymantecMacFiles
http://www.trusteer.com/support/uninstalling-rapport-mac-os-x
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/120838.aspx
Verify their complete and permanent eradication from your Mac. Don't use any other techniques to get rid of them.
"Carbonate" is known to run poorly on Macs.
"App4Mac" is outdated and obsolete.
Other problems may be present.
You need to become much more circumspect regarding the software you choose to install. I apologize if that comes across as blunt, but you appear to have been exerting quite some effort in an attempt to prevent your Mac from working the way it's supposed to work.

AwesomeWM suddenly slows down?

Hey guys!
I recently set up arch x64 and awesome on my netbook (lenovo S10-3). I'm using a 32GB kingston SSD as well. Everything is working fine for few hours, but then all of a sudden the video becomes very slow. Its slow even while switching workspaces.Im using xf86-video-intel A few observations.
>The memory usage is still not a lot while it slows down.
>Doesn't speed up if i free up more memory.
>swap usage remains 0%
>Restarting awesome does NOT fix the problem. However if i log-out and log-in it works fine.
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
pacman -S xf86-video-intel
warning: xf86-video-intel-2.21.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
Last edited by skotadi (2013-04-07 06:00:54)

Start here: Remove minor corruption by exporting
It may also help to do a Save AS to remove old change data.

[SOLVED] System suddenly slowed down

This is my first post on this forum, so - Hello, everybody
My problem occured yesterday:
1. I've made a big upgrade (don't remember exactly, but kernel was upgraded for sure)
2. I've noticed a serious slow down of the system: web surfing (firefox), AUR packages compiling (took almost 10 minutes to compile subtitlecomposer-git!) and other performance problems.
It had never happened before. My computer is Dell E6400 with 2 GB RAM and up to yesterday everything was working fine. Maybe I can deal with my problem on my own, but I just need some clues, where to look for any information.
It's really annoying
Well, I also made some mess last time - I've tried to install MATE and Gnome with both: LightDM and GDM. At present: everything is removed, and I'm using only KDE.
Seems like system start-up time didn't change, so I think the problem source is on "higher level".
htop is telling, that RAM consumption is 743 MB (only KDE + firefox with 4 tabs running), and processor load oscillates between 3 and 30% (when switching from Firefox to yakuake).
Thx in advance for any help and sorry for poor english.
Last edited by krzychusss (2013-05-10 11:29:02)

I've checked with iotop - nothing strange.
I will try old kernel and let you know.
Thx.
EDIT: Unfortunately, downgrading kernel didn't change anything. Still looking for solution
EDIT #2: Strange thing... I've just changed theme and some look-n-feel settings in KDE Settings and it works fine now. Also KDE was upgraded recently, so maybe this fixed the problem.
Anyway, it works
Thx.
Last edited by krzychusss (2013-05-10 11:28:43)

G4 Quicksilver suddenly slowed down

This is my first ever Post and am fairly new to MAC's so please bear with me.
The machine is a G4 Quicksilver(Digital Audio) 1GHZ, 1GB ram, 120 HD OS 10.5.5
It Used to run Pretty fast but all of a sudden Really Sloowed down. So slow that it could take 4 to 5 minutes watching the rainbow pinwheel to close out Safari. No programs were added. Did Repair Permissions, Ran Activity Monitor and showed the print out to several other Mac users. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary,Ran Apple Tech Tools, All passed. Did software update to 10.5.6 Ran MacJanitor, Ran Onyx(took about 2 hours)
Downloaded Istat widget and it showed 100% CPU usage when opening up Mozilla or Safari, Ran Rember(took about 5 hours) Showed 1GB ram with 733 free.
OK Nothing seems out of the ordinary?
Maybe needs a fresh load of the OS?
To play it safe I disconnected the 120HD and layed a Maxtor IDE 60GB(jumper set to Master) right on top and used the same cables. Tried to load 10.4 holding down the "C" key. It went fine until I had to pick a destination drive. The 60Gb Maxtor did not show up. Tried 3 other Maxtor, 1 Quantum and 1 Seagate. All IDE and jumper set to Master. None would show up.
Now, What am I doing wrong? I wanted to load a different OS on a different HD to see if it would get it back up to speed. No Luck. Unplugged all cables and reset the PMU button. No Luck. Tried to Zap the PRAM but it would only give me 1 start up chime.
ANY help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

coupde87, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
For someone new to Macs, you've learned troubleshooting fast. You have done most of the ususl things.
When troubleshooting, disconnect all external devices except your kbd & mouse.
RAM seems to be OK.
How much free/available space is on your 120GB HD? An almost full HD will really slow things down.
Reconnect your 120GB drive. On one of the other HDs, set the jumpers to Slave (make sure you have the jumpers on the correct pins). Boot from the 10.4 installer. Now is the second HD recognized?
Look at these links
Mac Tune-up: 34 Software Speedups
http://www.macworld.com/article/49489/2006/02/softwarespeed.html
52 Ways to Speed Up OS X
http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/post/articles/130/52-ways-to-speed-up os-x/
Tuning Mac OS X Performance
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac's Performance
http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html
The Top 7 Free Utilities To Maintain A Mac.
http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/thetop_7_free_utilities_to_maintain_amac/
Mac OS X: System maintenance
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640
 Cheers, Tom

Sudden slow-down: Diagnosis?

Running 10.4.9 Server, with a lab of 30 Macs doing server-based home dir logins. For the whole school year, logging in all 30 machines at the same time has taken roughly 30-60 seconds. As of a few days ago, it's taking anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. Everything works, but really really slowly.
Once everyone's logged in, most things run at normal speeds, though a lot of activity (everyone opening a Keynote project, for example) will slow things right down again.
Only thing I can think of that I changed recently was the addition of a shared library for fonts, but I've since disabled that to test, and the slowness hasn't gone away.
CPU graph on the server shows it peaking at 70%ish, which is the same as ever, and the traffic graph isn't out of the ordinary either. How do I figure out what's going on?
Thanks a ton for any advice.

Hi John,
Interesting post, I am having a very similar problem since upgrading our server to 10.4.10. User logons used to take about 10 seconds or less however now they are taking between 1-2 minutes :0(
My switches are all managed HP ProCurves so I know there is no issue there, I have an X-Serve with over 2Gb or RAM and all user directories are on a X-RAID so no issue there as far as I can see.
I thought it could possibly be that my clients are on 10.4.8 and there server is on 10.4.10 so I have done a couple of 10.4.10 test builds and the logon times are the same.
We have 4 mac labs with roughly 20 stations in each spread across a very large site and the log on times do not vary so it is not an isolated issue.
I am really stuck on this one :0(
Olly

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