What causes periodic slowing down ?- (cured with reboot)

Hello, all! I'm loving my older Mac mini, but noticed a strange phenomenon - it sometimes gets really slow, cured by rebooting. I used the Activity monitor, and when it is slow, 90% of the CPU power is used by "system" I noticed an application named Twainbridge was using a lot of power, quit that, and that sped things up a lot, but it still progresses to extremely slow. Any thoughts? I have removed some programs. Checking permissions and disk space is OK (24gig free) When it runs great, it's fast and wonderful, and when it's slow, restarting cures it. Any utilities/fixes? Thanks

It depends on the scanner and the software, but generally twainbridge only runs when it is called by the host software or connected hardware. A bit of trial and error might be in order in terms of simply leaving the scanner disconnected and checking to see if you suffer the performance issues. If not, then that should work just fine as a solution, though it suggests the software may not be entirely compatible with the version of MacOS.
It's also possible that the hardware or software vendors have newer drivers and/or software available which may behave a little better.
Also a possibility which has worked for some users with less than ideally compatible devices and software is to set up a separate account on the system to log in to and use just for those specific things, allowing the main account to remain unblemished by performance hits and potential stability issues.

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Are the lines like psychedelic herringbone? If yes, I had that happen once, it was something serious, like the
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I am having a similar slow down issue with Premiere CS4 on a Mac pro, but I don't have bloated prproj file size.
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Do you need all of those extra pixels in the stills? Are you panning the full 4976?
Two things to consider are that if you using, say a 1920 x 1080 Sequence Frame Size, you can only see that at any time, regardless of how large the images are in pixels. If there are extra pixels, i.e. the Pan is not using all 4976 pxls., I would Scale to just what you need in PS, prior to Import.
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Thanks for all your help. I had the issue posted on 2 other
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