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Ah joy of joys, I have a recalcitrant iMac, looking for ideas of things to do/check pretty please.
Symptoms - just everything is slow, I mean painfully, head/wall interface slow. Lots of the little spinning wheel, whatever I try to do, whether it is opening webpages, typing this post [I keep having to wait for it to catch up with me, and I am only a 4 finger typer], opening documents, even just clicking on Applications in the dock - all have a yawning chasm between me clicking something and it actually happening.
So far I have checked activity monitor and cant see anything that is putting any pressure on any resources, CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, all running at a few percent.
Checked Disk utility, but all seems well, no signs of failing HDD [1TB with less than half used]
I have done a PRAM reset to no avail
Have installed latest OS updates [on Yosemite btw], again no effect other than it took bloody ages
Machine was perfectly fine this morning, I went out and put it into sleep mode. When I finally got home this evening, woke it up and has been like this since, so carried out all the above checks.
Haven't clicked on any dodgy websites, links or anything else in recent memory and do run sophos AV on it, that can find nothing untoward.
Specs are a late 2011 model [bought new mid 2012], 1TB HDD, 12GB Memory, 2.7GHz i5 processor
Can't think of anything else. I am just about to turn it off for the night and retire with the laptop, but if anyone has any ideas of stuff to look at, check, etc in the morning, would be very grateful.
ETA: actually, I think it might be a 2012 model I bought early 2013... meh, its a few years old but certainly not ancient.
Symptoms - just everything is slow, I mean painfully, head/wall interface slow. Lots of the little spinning wheel, whatever I try to do, whether it is opening webpages, typing this post [I keep having to wait for it to catch up with me, and I am only a 4 finger typer], opening documents, even just clicking on Applications in the dock - all have a yawning chasm between me clicking something and it actually happening.
So far I have checked activity monitor and cant see anything that is putting any pressure on any resources, CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, all running at a few percent.
Checked Disk utility, but all seems well, no signs of failing HDD [1TB with less than half used]
I have done a PRAM reset to no avail
Have installed latest OS updates [on Yosemite btw], again no effect other than it took bloody ages
Machine was perfectly fine this morning, I went out and put it into sleep mode. When I finally got home this evening, woke it up and has been like this since, so carried out all the above checks.
Haven't clicked on any dodgy websites, links or anything else in recent memory and do run sophos AV on it, that can find nothing untoward.
Specs are a late 2011 model [bought new mid 2012], 1TB HDD, 12GB Memory, 2.7GHz i5 processor
Can't think of anything else. I am just about to turn it off for the night and retire with the laptop, but if anyone has any ideas of stuff to look at, check, etc in the morning, would be very grateful.
ETA: actually, I think it might be a 2012 model I bought early 2013... meh, its a few years old but certainly not ancient.
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