W520 low WEI score, & poor performance

Recently I bought a used Thinkpad W520 model:4284cv4 from Ebay.
What the problem I am encountering is about the low performance this W520 laptop performs. I have also the X200 on hands, it looks like the performance is even better with SSD for both laptops.
I am disappointed because I suppose this is the best laptop in the world with the best keyboard.
You can see that the WEI score for processor is very very low, 4.9 only.
It's unbelievable anyway. It should be above 7 or more!!!
I also check the ways to optimize the WEI score on this forum but it doesn't give a help for my laptop.
I found that the CPU loading is very easy to raise up to almost 100%.
Can anymore one here to do a favour for me in the last day of 2014????

I had the same experience with my W510. Please refer to the follow threads:
Lenovo Community
Microsoft Answers
There is somethign particular to the WEI analysis that it does not enable TurboBoost or SpeedStep technologies available to the processor; at least not in my case. I monitored the processor during the WEI analysis and the processor clock was supressed to it's minimum 930MHz core speed (native 1.6GHz, and 2.8GHz TurboBoost) on all four cores for all tests.
My solution was to clear all the prior analysis (see the Microsoft link), and to then install and run Throttlestop before starting a fresh WEI analysis. This prevents WEI from throttleing back the processor. I went from a processor index score of 4.8 to 6.9.
Once I was done the analysis, I uninstalled Throttlestop -- or simply quit using it. I had run other analysis to demonstrate in day to day use, the system and applications were accessing the processor technologies, and everything was working as it was supposed too.

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AMD Radeon HD 8650G + 8750M Dual Graphics and lower WEI score... and keyboard "softness"

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AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
16GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 8650G + 8750M Dual Graphics
Hello I just purchased this machine. Given are the basic specs. Why would the AMD Radeon HD 8650G + 8750M Dual Graphics score a 5.9 on the WEI when my two year old hp with an A8-3500 with the 6620G + 6750M scored a 6.5.. I am wondering if this new machine is actually graphically slower. Any Advice?
Second question: Is it normal for the envy to have a soft spot in the keyboard where you have visible flex. while pressing the W, S, A, D, E there is visible deformation. All the other keys seem solid.
I am debating returning this machine already. Any help.

Are you comparing WEI scores from the same OS??? That is Windows 7 to Windows 7... Windows 8 to Window 8... or Windows 8 to Window 7???
Comparing scores generated by different generations of Windows doesn't mean anything. Notice that the scale on Windows 7 runs from 1 to 7.9 and Windows 8 runs from 1 to 9.9 . Notice that the graphics scores for both 2D and 3D graphics are lower on Windows 8. Windows Vista, 7, and 8 all use different parameters to determine the scores.
Also, the architecture of the APUs has changed a little of the past couple of generations. And an 8750M and 6750M are basically the same GPU, so the scores should be roughly the same when using the same driver and OS for a comparision.
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Game is running with low resolution and poor performance

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Lower RAM score in Z77A-GD55 compared to P55A-GD65?

Just another issue i want to clarify when using this board. Using Team Xtreme RAM PC12800 7-7-7-21 4GB with BIOS 1.3 and 3570K OCed to 4.2Ghz:
1. The Read performance of 2T is clearly faster than 1T Command Rate. It was dropped from 19000MB/s(2T) to 13000MB/s (1T) What gives?
2. The WEI score for my RAM is only 5.9? Huh? it was 7.9 when i'm using my old P55-GD65 with same RAM and Core i5 750. Again, what gives? have tried to re-run it but no change. Other score is inline but the WEI RAM score is way lower than it was before. Command Rate changes won't fix this score. The weird thing is the RAM performance score in AIDA actually is inline with previous result on the P55 board i had. So i know it might be a software issue but still, just to make sure if there's any issue with anything that might causes this.
Hope somebody can give me any enlightenment or any trick.
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Quote from: DaLoona on 11-May-12, 20:42:36
WEI means diddly squad and its just a bunch of numbers.
Does your system feel slower, do things take more time to load or something similar, then by all means continue your search, if not, leave it!, as said WEI means nothing!
Same goes for benches, they mean nothing, unless you are a numberfreak and like to watch the numbers get higher and higher.
Is all about how you experience your computer, not about some silly program that churnes out a number.
Yes i know, but doesn't the same applies for overclocking too? just to satisfy that need of higher number so yeah..

Skype crashing and poor performance

Hello!
I have a Lumia625 with WP8.1. My problem is that Skype has a really poor performance on my phone. It crashes 6 times out of 10 on startup, and even if I manage to start it, the whole app is slow and laggy. Sometimes I can't even write a message it's so laggy. Video call is absolutely out of the question. It crashes my whole phone. I have no similar problems with other instant messaging apps nor with high-end games. There is something obviously using way more resource in the Skype app than it's supposed to. It's a simple chat program, why would it need so much resource?
The problem seems to be originating from the lower (512 mb) RAM size of my phone model, because I experienced the same effect with poorly written apps, that don't keep in mind that there are 512 RAM devices, not only 1GB+ ones, and use too much resource.
Please don't try to suggest to restart/reset the phone, and reinstall the app. Those are already behind me, and they did NOT help the problem. I'm not searching for temporary workarounds.
Please find a solution for this problem, because it is super annoying, and I can't use Skype, which will eventually result in me leaving Skype.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

When it crashes on startup it goes like:
I tap the skype tile
The black screen with the "Loading....." appears (default WP loading screen). Usually this takes longer than it would normally take on any other app.
For a blink of an eye the Skype gui appears, but it instantly crashes.
If I can successfully start up the app, it just keeps lagging. I sart to write a message to a contact, and sometimes even the letters don't appear as I touch them, but they appear much later altogether. If I tap the send message button the whole gui freezes (seems like it freezes till the contact gets my message). Sometimes the lag get stronger, and sometimes it almost vanishes, but if I keep making inputs when the lag is strong, sometimes it crashes the whole app.
When I first installed the app, everything was fine. But after a while this behavior appeared. I reinstalled the app, and it solved the problem temporarily, but after some time the problem re-appeared. I don't know if it's relevant, but there was a time when I couldn't make myself appear online all the time (when the app was not started). In that time I didn't experience the lags and crashes. Anyways, what I'm sure about is that the lags get worse with time. Idk if it's because of use of the app (caching?), or the updates the phone makes to itself (conflict?).
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Poor performance and voltage fluctuation.

I'm running two 280x in crossfire which I upgraded from two 6970's. When I'm playing DayZ my FPS never go above 30 FPS. With my 6970's I was well into the 70's. I never changed my video settings when I went from the 6970's to the 280X's. For the most part I have a lot of the graphics low or disabled. Borderlands 2 is a nightmare on the 280X. I drop down into 10 fps area and this has never happened with on my 6970's.
During games my core voltage fluctuates between 500mhz and 1020mhz during game play. I have ULPS disable as well.
My power supply is an Antec HCG-900.
Happened on all these drivers 14.4, 14.6 Beta, and 14.6 RC (currently installed).

jwcxz wrote:Have you looked at your process table for any program with abnormal CPU usage? That seems like the logical place to start. You shouldn't be getting poor performance in anything with that system. I have a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo and an Intel GMA 965 and I've never had any problems with Flash. It's much better than it used to be.
Pidgin scared me for a while because it froze for no apparent reason. After fixing this, the table contains this two guys here:
%CPU
Firefox: 80%~100%
X: 0~20%
Graphic intensive test, so I think the X usage is normal. It might be some oddity at the Firefox+Linux+Flash sum, maybe a conflict. I'll try another browser.
EDIT:
Did a Javascript benchmark to test both systems and browsers.
Windows XP + Firefox = 4361.4ms
Arch + Firefox = 5146.0ms
So, it's actually a lot slower without even taking Flash into account. If someone knows a platform-independent benchmark to test both systems completely, and not only the browser, feel free to point out.
I think that something is already wrong here and the lack of power saving systems only aggravated the problem, causing overheat.
EDIT2:
Browser performance fixed: migrated to Midori. Flash stills slower than on Windows, but now it's bearable. Pretty neat browser too, goes better with the Arch Way. It shouldn't fix the temperature, however.
Applied B's idea, but didn't test yet. I'm not into the mood of playing flash games for two straight hours today.
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Low Index Score on Vista

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Yep, it's going to do that with 667MHz RAM (or even with faster 800MHz RAM if the memory controller on your model of Mac doesn't run 800MHz RAM @ full speed).
Frankly...and this is from quite a bit of experience...don't fret the number. I have machines that are also Intel based and give a lower memory score...but they still smoke my AMD machines that score 5.9 on the Vista RAM test. The Vista system assessment is nifty, but, I wouldn't use it as the end-all, be-all for rating the performance of a computer.

RemoteFX Poor Performance

Hello,
I am experiencing poor performance with a virtualized Windows 8.1 Enterprise. When I do not have the "RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter" added to the VM Windows 8.1 is more responsive (with simple things like moving windows around the desktop) but of course
I don't get the benefits of RemoteFX.
I have a bench system setup to test RemoteFX in Server 2012R2.
Host Server:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Core i5-4570 (3.2Ghz)
8GB RAM
SSD for VM's
nVidia GTX750 Ti (tested with other nVidia and ATI cards with the same result)
The VM:
Windows 8.1 Ent
4 vCPU's
4GB RAM (non dynamic)
RemoteFX 3D Video ADapter w/ 4 Monitors and 1920x1200 resolution
The RDP clients I have tested with are Windows 8.1 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (RDP client says version 6.3.9600 and Remote Desktop Protocol 8.1 supported). This is all tested on a Gig LAN and the quality of the connection says "the remote
computer is excellent and UDP is enabled".
The event viewer on the 8.1 VM shows RemoteFX being used as does the performance counters on the host. Everything is slow and does not really run as expected other then Windows Media Player. Playing HD movie on Windows Media Player it looks great but if
I open the same video in VLC it is choppy. Youtube is also choppy.
I have tried disabling the NIC offload in the adapter and in the registry as seems to be recommended in a few different forums without success.
It seems to me that Windows Media Redirection works however the RemoteFX Media Streaming is not kicking in when required or it's not working well.
Using Windows Media Player I am getting average encoding time of about 2ms and frames skipped/second - Insufficient Server Resources is average 18. The other frames skipped options are 0. The total CPU utilization on the server is about 6%. (subjectively
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On other higher resolution movies using VLC I get some average encoding time is almost 100ms.
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I assume that the perceived slowness is because of the Average Encoding Time. What can I do to improve this?
Thank you for your time,
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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
You can run below mention command from PowerShell.
Import-Module RemoteDesktopServices
Add-VMRemoteFx3dVideoAdapter -VMName nameofcomputer
SET-VMRemoteFx3dVideoAdapter –VMName nameofcomputer
After that the adapter should work.
In addition please check the article to see RemoteFx Compatible GPUs.
GPU Requirements for RemoteFX on Windows Server 2012 R2
RemoteFX vGPU Setup and Configuration Guide for Windows Server 2012
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

N580GTX Poor Performance

I recently bought a 580GTX Lightning and out of the box I was experiencing fairly poor performance especially in DX11 games and benchmarks. This was with the MSI OC clocks (832Mhz core etc). I down-clocked to standard 580 values and performance immediately increased to levels you would expect a 580 card to be capable of. Seemed at the time as if the GPU voltage was set too low...
In playing around with the card, I flipped the BIOS dipp switch to the LN2 setting and found that the clock settings were at (by default) the standard 580GTX settings. Performance was in this case again poor despite the lower clocks. I then increased clocks to the MSI OC values and performance jumped again to where a 580GTX card should be. Odd.
Next I flipped the Bios back to the original, restarted and left the OC at the MSI values. Performance remains at most excellent.
At the moment it seems I get good performance when I am using Afterburner and have the "Apply Overclocking at System Startup" option applied.
My question is why is this? Will this card only work correctly when used in conjunction with Afterburner? Any thoughts on why this is?
GPU BIOS: 70.10.17.00.06
PSU: Silverstone Strider Gold 750W
Nvidia Drivers: 270.61
OS: Windows 7 SP1

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My question is why is this? Will this card only work correctly when used in conjunction with Afterburner? Any thoughts on why this is?
AB is just a software tool that allows you to manipulate the clocks and voltages, easily. Nothing more.
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At the moment it seems I get good performance when I am using Afterburner and have the "Apply Overclocking at System Startup" option applied.
That setting will apply an Overclock that you manually set and then saved as a user profile within Afterburner. If you did not save a user profile, then it will be the same settings as what your card's factory clocks are. i.e. it will not apply anything.
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I recently bought a 580GTX Lightning and out of the box I was experiencing fairly poor performance especially in DX11 games and benchmarks.
Poor performance is relative. This needs to be quantified and a measuring standard is needed, as well as comparisons to the same or similar cards to establish a consistent baseline.

Project Server 2013 Poor Performance

Hi Guys
On a new build of Project Server, we are experiencing poor performance across the board, Site Collection, Central Admin, everything is slow.
We have allocated 12GB and Quad core (lower end of the recommend scale). However as there are no users, I would expect it to be fine at the moment (Search is not setup or anything, just a simple service app with a pwa site provisioned).
What things can we check? From looking on the internet, Distributed Cache crops up a lot. Can this bring performance right down?
For the record, we have March 2013 PU and Oct 2013 CU applied.

Hello,
There could be a number of causes, it is very difficult to diagnose without understanding the farm infrastructure. Can you give details of:
Number of servers in the farm + Specs
If virtual, is the host server over committed? Have you set up reservations for memory and CPU?
What is the storage?
What is the network speed between servers / storage etc?
Do you have any Anti-Virus software installed on the servers? If so, have you tested with it disabled on all servers in the farm?
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Poor Performance with Fairpoint DSL

I started using Verizon DSL for my internet connection and had no problems. When Fairpoint Communications purchased Verizon (this is in Vermont), they took over the DSL (about May 2009). Since then, I have had very poor performance with all applications as soon as I start a browser. The performance problems occur regardless of the browser - I've tried Firefox (3.5.4), Safari (4.0.3) and Opera (10.0). I've been around and around with Fairpoint for 6 months with no resolution. I have not changed any software or hardware on my Mac during that time, except for updating the browsers and Apple updates to the OS, iTunes, etc. The performance problems continued right through these updates. I've run tests to check my internet speed and get times of 2.76Mbps (download) and 0.58Mbps (upload) which are within the specified limits for the DSL service. My Mac is a 2GHz PowerPC G5 runnning OSX 10.4.11. It has 512MB DDR SDRAM. I use a Westell Model 6100 modem for the DSL provided by Verizon.
Some of the specific problems I see are:
1. very long waits of more than a minute after a click on an item in the menu bar
2. very long waits of more than two minutes after a click on an item on a browser page
3. frequent pinwheels in response to a click on a menu item/browser page item
4. frequent pinwheels if I just move the mouse without a click
5. frequent messages for stopped/unresponsive scripts
6. videos (like YouTube) stop frequently for no reason; after several minutes, I'll get a little audio but no new video; eventually after several more minutes it will get going again (both video and audio)
7. response in non-browser applications is also very slow
8. sometimes will get no response at all to a mouse click
9. trying to run more than one browser at a time will bring the Mac to its knees
10. browser pages frequently take several minutes to load
These are just some of the problems I have.
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What I would like to do is find a way to determine if the problem is in my Mac or with the Fairpoint service. Since I had no problems with Verizon and have made no changes to my Mac, I really suspect the problem lies with Fairpoint. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

1) Another thing that you could try it is deleting the preference files for networking. Mac OS will regenerate these files. You would then need to reconfigure your network settings.
The list of files comes from Mac OS X 10.4.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8185915#8185915
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10718694#10718694
2) I think it is time to do a clean install of your system.
3) It's either the software or an intermittent hardware problem.
If money isn't an issue, I suggest an external harddrive for re-installing Mac OS.
You need an external Firewire drive to boot a PowerPC Mac computer.
I recommend you do a google search on any external harddrive you are looking at.
I bought a low cost external drive enclosure. When I started having trouble with it, I did a google search and found a lot of complaints about the drive enclosure. I ended up buying a new drive enclosure. On my second go around, I decided to buy a drive enclosure with a good history of working with Macs. The chip set seems to be the key ingredient. The Oxford line of chips seems to be good. I got the Oxford 911.
The latest the hard drive enclosures support the newer serial ata drives. The drive and closure that I list supports only older parallel ata.
Has everything interface:
FireWire 800/400 + USB2, + eSATA 'Quad Interface'
save a little money interface:
FireWire 400 + USB 2.0
This web page lists both external harddrive types. You may need to scroll to the right to see both.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATAFW800_FW400USB
Here is an external hd enclosure.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW91UAL1K/
Here is what one contributor recommended:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10452917#10452917
Folks in these Mac forums recommend LaCie, OWC or G-Tech.
Here is a list of recommended drives:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5564509#5564509
FireWire compared to USB. You will find that FireWire 400 is faster than USB 2.0 when used for a external harddrive connection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniversalSerial_Bus#USB_compared_toFireWire
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We note from some time on a very very poor performances of some programme accessing these tables.
The tables are very small, still standard.
We see these tables does not have particular indexes, and their buffering is "allowed but disabled".
In you opinion can we activate the buffering of these tables ? Are there controindications ?
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MSI GE70 2OE-015NL very poor performance on battery power

Hey guys,
First of all I want to say that I'm really happy with my GE70 notebook. Everything works perfectly fine except for this one thing... When I play games on the notebook while on battery power, the performance is very poor. For example when I normally on AC power get around 250 FPS, it drops down all the way to around 40-60 FPS on battery power. In real demanding games this can be very annoying, since I have to play on AC power constantly for games like Battlefield 4. Although this isn't really a problem for me most of the time, I just don't think that's the concept of a notebook... I monitored some statistics using MSI Afterburner and I noticed that the GPU's core clock is clocked all the way down to a constant 135MHz whilst gaming and the memory is clocked all the way down to around 400MHz. I'm using a GTX 765M. I've already tried changing settings in the Windows power settings, the NVIDIA control panel and I even looked into the BIOS, but I couldn't find a solution to this problem. Apparently the GTX 700M series GPUs support Optimus technology which should give a decent battery life using the full power of your GPU, but for me it doesn't do so. The battery gets drained in around 45 minutes while gaming on very poor performance. I hope you guys can help me out!

Oyo,
All Gamer NB are not done for play in battery mode, battery life are short and the power provide by a battery are far from the power adapter, this mean the NB get less power and your CPU and VGA are working in lower mode = lower result.
This is normal because link to the battery, thepower adapter provide 120W, the battery 49W, you see the gap between them ^^
So for play games, use the power adapter and the battery together, this is the best way.

Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running google maps app on the phone. Siri cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Thanks.

Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running Google Maps app on the phone. SIRI cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Also can anyone tell me the hierarchy of use between the Apple Maps, SIRI, and Google maps when the app is on the phone? How do you choose one over the other as the default map usage? Or better still how do you suppress SIRI from using the Apple maps app when requesting a "go to"?
I have placed an address location into the CONTACTS list and when I ask SIRI to "take me there" it found a TOTALLY different location in the metro area with the same street name. I have included the address, the quadrant, (NE) and the ZIP code into the CONTACTS list. As it turns out, no amount of canceling the trip or relocating the address in the CONTACTS list line would prevent SIRI from taking me to this bogus location. FINALLY I typed in Northeast for NE in the CONTACTS list (NE being the accepted method of defining the USPS location quadrant) , canceled the current map route and it finally found the correct address. This problem would normally not demand such a response from me to have it fixed but the address is one of a hospital in the center of town and this hospital HAS a branch location in a similar part of town (NOT the original address SIRI was trying to take me to). This screw up could be dangerous if not catastrophic to someone who was looking for a hospital location fast and did not know of these two similar locations. After all the whole POINT of directions is not just whimsical pasttime or convenience. In a pinch people need to rely on this function. OR, are my expectations set too high?
How does the iPhone select between one app or the other (Apple Maps or Gppgle Maps) as it relates to SIRI finding and showing a map route?
Why does SIRI return an address that is NOT the correct address nor is the returned location in the requested ZIP code?
Is there a known bug in the CONTACTS list that demands the USPS quadrant ID be spelled out, as opposed to abreviated, to permit SIRI to do its routing?
Thanks for any clarification on these matters.

siri will only use apple maps, this cannot be changed. you could try google voice in the google app.

General poor performance of my Mac mini

I have been using my mac mini for over a year, it continues to frustrate me how slow and unresponsive it can be even though I do very little with it, i.e organise photos and browse the web - usually looking for solutions to the poor performance problem!
I came a cross this app that has given me lots of information, unfortunately with my limited IT know-how there is nothing here that gives me any clues, as to the cause of the problem. I guess the red font is not good?
I'm sorry i can't be more specific about the problem other than to say that iPhoto and Safari the two programmes i use way more often than any other, keep giving me the beach ball. My internet speed is ok 25 Mbps down - 4.5 Mbps
Is there anything here that stands out as being wrong? if so any suggestions/ instructions for what I should do?
p.s. i had to quit Safari while writing this and have a report for this if it helps?
Any help much appreciated.
Problem description:
My mac is just generally very slow. I only use it to look at the internet and manage photos.
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[killed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[killed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
[killed] com.apple.xpc.smd.plist
5 processes killed due to memory pressure
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Wondershare Helper Compact Application (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Helper/Wondershare Helper Compact.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.5.5f1 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 240.33 GB
Destinations:
Time Capsule [Network]
Total size: 2.00 TB
Total number of backups: 56
Oldest backup: 2014-09-30 04:29:13 +0000
Last backup: 2015-01-03 15:37:35 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk used 240.33 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
    110% com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64
      6% WindowServer
      1% Activity Monitor
      1% coreaudiod
      1% sysmond
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
1.11 GB com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64
73 MB iTunes
49 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
39 MB mds
39 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
68 MB Free RAM
1.07 GB Active RAM
1.02 GB Inactive RAM
893 MB Wired RAM
63.93 GB Page-ins
2.15 GB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Jan 1, 2015, 11:43:39 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64_2015-01-01-114339_[r edacted].cpu_resource.diag [Details]
Jan 1, 2015, 11:32:46 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WindowServer_2015-01-01-113246_[redacted].crash
Jan 1, 2015, 11:00:30 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64_2015-01-01-110030_[r edacted].cpu_resource.diag [Details]
Jan 1, 2015, 10:19:03 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iBooks_2015-01-01-101903_[redacted].cpu_resourc e.diag [Details]

Hi Linc Davis
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
I got this information from a time when I was opening up iPhoto, and then going to the iCloud folder. To be honest it wasn't the most disastrous of events, I did get a few beachballs and when I opened up a shared folder the photos weren't loaded as normal. As I get more lengthy delays in carrying out any activities I will post back the console results.
Just as a bit more info, I don't consider my problem an update to Yosemite problem, if anything since updating performance has been improved from Mavericks.
Do you have any comments about upgrading RAM from the 4GB I have?
Should I act on any of the messages in red from the EtreCheck report?
Many Thanks
Duncan
03/01/2015 19:30:18.331 com.apple.iCloudHelper[12481]: objc[12481]: Class FALogging is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyCircle.framework/Versions/A/FamilyCircl e and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyNotification.framework/Versions/A/Famil yNotification. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
03/01/2015 19:30:18.391 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
03/01/2015 19:30:19.162 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:30:19.162 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:30:19.163 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:30:19.163 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:30:19.186 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:30:19.187 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:30:19.188 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:30:19.188 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:30:19.188 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:30:19.188 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:30:25.446 WindowServer[7810]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 10.70 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/01/2015 19:30:33.548 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:30:33.919 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:30:34.077 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:30:34.605 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:30:34.774 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:30:34.853 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:30:47.562 pkd[12123]: FCIsAppAllowedToLaunchExt [343] -- *** _FCMIGAppCanLaunch timed out. Returning false.
03/01/2015 19:31:10.695 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:10.807 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:16.961 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:31:18.514 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:18.593 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:22.538 discoveryd[49]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[3491] errno[3] result[-1]
03/01/2015 19:31:27.912 mds[32]: (DiskStore.Normal:2376) 6052001 1.780097
03/01/2015 19:31:56.831 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:31:57.224 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:57.281 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:57.405 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:31:58.507 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:58.541 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:31:59.160 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:32:09.891 com.apple.InputMethodKit.UserDictionary[12456]: -[PFUbiquitySetupAssistant canReadFromUbiquityRootLocation:](1492): CoreData: Ubiquity: Error attempting to read ubiquity root url: file:///Users/Duncan/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~TextInput/Dictionarie s/.
Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134323 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 134323.)" UserInfo=0x7f90e152a380 {NSAffectedObjectsErrorKey=<PFUbiquityLocation: 0x7f90e152a2e0>: /Users/Duncan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~TextInput}
userInfo: {
    NSAffectedObjectsErrorKey = "<PFUbiquityLocation: 0x7f90e152a2e0>: /Users/Duncan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~TextInput";
03/01/2015 19:32:12.862 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:32:20.818 com.apple.SecurityServer[53]: Killing auth hosts
03/01/2015 19:32:20.819 com.apple.SecurityServer[53]: Session 100281 destroyed
03/01/2015 19:32:20.974 com.apple.SecurityServer[53]: Session 100577 created
03/01/2015 19:32:34.833 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:32:35.767 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:32:35.789 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:32:35.980 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:32:36.273 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:32:36.487 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:32:47.035 WindowServer[7810]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
03/01/2015 19:32:50.555 WindowServer[7810]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 4.52 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/01/2015 19:32:51.578 WindowServer[7810]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
03/01/2015 19:32:52.745 WindowServer[7810]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 2.17 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/01/2015 19:32:53.098 mds[32]: (DiskStore.Normal:2376) 6052001 1.279589
03/01/2015 19:33:03.332 BezelServices 245.23[7816]: ASSERTION FAILED: dvcAddrRef != ((void *)0) -[DriverServices getDeviceAddress:] line: 2602
03/01/2015 19:33:03.332 BezelServices 245.23[7816]: ASSERTION FAILED: dvcAddrRef != ((void *)0) -[DriverServices getDeviceAddress:] line: 2602
03/01/2015 19:33:11.961 mds[32]: (DiskStore.Normal:2376) 6052001 1.939804
03/01/2015 19:33:29.541 WindowServer[7810]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
03/01/2015 19:33:32.354 WindowServer[7810]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 3.81 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
03/01/2015 19:33:44.549 discoveryd[49]: Basic DNSResolver dropping message because it doesn't match the one sent Port:53 MsgID:20602
03/01/2015 19:33:54.055 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:05.143 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.143 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.165 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.165 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.165 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.166 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:05.499 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: called
03/01/2015 19:34:05.499 discoveryd[49]: WCFNameResolvesToAddr: entering
03/01/2015 19:34:07.001 discoveryd[49]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[3491] errno[3] result[-1]
03/01/2015 19:34:13.809 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:13.821 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:14.124 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:34:14.766 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:14.867 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:17.769 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Ended (4), but previous was 4 (not Began)
03/01/2015 19:34:18.186 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase MayBegin (128), but previous was 1 (not 0, Cancelled or End)
03/01/2015 19:34:18.186 WindowServer[7810]: scrollPhase Began (1), but previous was 1 (not 0, MayBegin or End)

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