Logic board replaced to try to fix this ($700). But I think they did this unnecessarily. Thinking RAM problem but not sure. EtreCheckPro version: 6.8.10 (68078) Report generated: 2025-07-24 12:12:16 Runtime: 3:06 Performance: Excellent Problem: Apps are crashing Description: Apps crash Major Issues: None Minor Issues: These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found. Apps crashing - There have been numerous app crashes. Apps with heavy CPU usage - There have been numerous cases of apps with heavy CPU usage. Vintage hardware - This computer may be considered vintage. Hardware Information: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) Status: Vintage iMac Model: iMac17,1 4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 (i7-6700K) CPU: 4-core 32 GB RAM - At maximum BANK 0/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1867 BANK 0/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1867 BANK 1/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1867 BANK 1/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1867 Video Information: AMD Radeon R9 M395X - VRAM: 4 GB iMac (built-in) 6400 x 3600 Drives: disk0 - APPLE SSD SM1024G 1.00 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) Internal PCI 8.0 GT/s x4 Serial ATA disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1.00 TB disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.00 TB (Shared by 6 volumes) disk1s1 - S*** - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (34.46 GB used) disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (297 MB used) disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (1.12 GB used) disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (1 MB used) disk1s5 (APFS) [APFS Container] (15.42 GB used) disk1s5s1 - SSD (APFS) [APFS Snapshot] (15.42 GB used) disk1s6 - Update (APFS) (553 KB used) Mounted Volumes: disk1s1 - S*** - Data [APFS Virtual drive] Filesystem: APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Data Used: 34.46 GB Shared values Size: 1.00 TB Free: 948.84 GB Available: 950.59 GB disk1s2 - Preboot [APFS Preboot] Filesystem: APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Preboot Used: 297 MB Shared values Size: 1.00 TB Free: 948.84 GB disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] Filesystem: APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/VM Used: 1 MB Shared values Size: 1.00 TB Free: 948.84 GB disk1s5s1 - SSD [APFS Snapshot] Filesystem: APFS Mount point: / Read-only: Yes Used: 15.42 GB Shared values Size: 1.00 TB Free: 948.84 GB Available: 950.59 GB disk1s6 - Update Filesystem: APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Update Used: 553 KB Shared values Size: 1.00 TB Free: 948.84 GB USB: USB 3.0 bus Broadcom Corp. - Bluetooth USB Host Controller Apple Inc. - FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) Lenovo Optical Mouse Apple Inc. - Magic Keyboard Network: Interface en0: Ethernet Interface en1: Wi-Fi Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge 2 Firewall: Blocked apps: None Stealth mode: Enabled System Software: macOS Monterey 12.7.6 (21H1320) Installed 2025-06-10 Time since boot: Less than an hour Notifications: EtreCheckPro.app one notification Security: Gatekeeper: App Store and identified developers System Integrity Protection: Enabled Antivirus software: Apple System Launch Daemons: [Not Loaded] 39 Apple tasks [Loaded] 215 Apple tasks [Running] 128 Apple tasks [Other] One Apple task System Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] 19 Apple tasks [Loaded] 214 Apple tasks [Running] 124 Apple tasks User Login Items: [Running] AppCleaner SmartDelete (Julien Ramseier - installed 2025-06-10) Modern Login Item /Applications/AppCleaner.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/AppCleaner SmartDelete.app [Not Loaded] App Cleaner Helper (Nektony LLC - installed 2025-05-28) Modern Login Item /Applications/MacCleaner 3 Pro/App Cleaner 8.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/App Cleaner Helper N.app [Not Loaded] App Cleaner Monitor N (Nektony LLC - installed 2025-05-28) Modern Login Item /Applications/MacCleaner 3 Pro/App Cleaner 8.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/App Cleaner Monitor N.app [Not Loaded] FunterLauncher (Nektony LLC - installed 2025-05-28) Modern Login Item /Applications/MacCleaner 3 Pro/Funter 6.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/FunterLauncher.app [Running] MacCleaner Pro Helper (Nektony LLC - installed 2025-06-10) Modern Login Item /Applications/MacCleaner 3 Pro/MacCleaner Pro 3.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/MacCleaner Pro Helper.app [Not Loaded] MemoryCleanerSLauncher (Nektony LLC - installed 2025-05-28) Modern Login Item /Applications/MacCleaner 3 Pro/Memory Cleaner 5.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/MemoryCleanerSLauncher.app Applications: 443 Apple apps 45 3rd party apps 12 x86-only apps No unsigned apps App Extensions: Safari extensions: [Loaded] Dashlane - /Applications/Dashlane.app Plugins: [Loaded] Dashlane - /Applications/Dashlane.app Widgets: [Loaded] DashlaneIdentityDashboardWidget - /Applications/Dashlane.app Backup: Time Machine information is limited without Full Disk Access Performance: System Load: 4.70 (1 min ago) 3.70 (5 min ago) 1.65 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O usage: 4.35 MB/s File system: 14.45 seconds Write speed: 1503 MB/s Read speed: 2034 MB/s CPU Usage Snapshot: Type Overall System: 5 % User: 4 % Idle: 91 % Top Processes Snapshot by CPU: Process (count) CPU (Source - Location) mdworker 67.40 % (Apple) WindowServer 6.28 % (Apple) kernel_task 3.23 % (Apple) EtreCheckPro 2.70 % (Etresoft, Inc.) Activity Monitor 1.74 % (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Memory: Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) EtreCheckPro 779 MB (Etresoft, Inc.) Activity Monitor 263 MB (Apple) mds_stores 157 MB (Apple) Spotlight 131 MB (Apple) WindowServer 98 MB (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use: Process Input / Output (Source - Location) mDNSResponder 184 KB / 29 KB (Apple) apsd 13 KB / 11 KB (Apple) rapportd 4 KB / 2 KB (Apple) netbiosd 522 B / 354 B (Apple) BTLEServerAgent 0 B / 0 B (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Energy Use: Process (count) Energy (0-100) (Source - Location) mdworker 25 (Apple) Spotlight 1 (Apple) WindowServer 1 (Apple) Activity Monitor 0 (Apple) launchd 0 (Apple) Virtual Memory Information: Physical RAM: 32 GB Free RAM: 24.11 GB Used RAM: 4.46 GB Cached files: 3.42 GB Available RAM: 27.54 GB Swap Used: 0 B Software Installs (past 60 days): Install Date Name (Version) 2025-06-09 OS X - OS X Installer 2025-06-09 Device Support Update ( ) - Software update 2025-06-09 Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update (6.21) - Software update 2025-06-09 iTunes Device Support Update ( ) - Software update 2025-06-09 Mac App Store Update for OS X El Capitan ( ) - Software update 2025-06-09 Remote Desktop Client Update (3.9.3) - Software update 2025-06-09 Security Update 2018-004 (10.11.6) - Software update 2025-06-09 iTunes (12.8.2) - Software update 2025-06-09 Safari (11.1.2) - Software update 2025-06-09 macOS Monterey (12.7.4) - Software update 2025-06-09 Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data (11.6.1) - Software update 2025-06-09 Chinese Word List Update (4.22) - Software update 2025-06-09 CoreLSKD Configuration Data (8) - Software update 2025-06-09 CompatibilityNotificationData (1.0.5) - Software update 2025-06-09 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (140) - Software update 2025-06-09 Core Suggestions Configuration Data (1.0) - Software update 2025-06-09 MRTConfigData (1.93) - Software update 2025-06-09 XProtectPlistConfigData (5299) - Software update 2025-06-09 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (181) - Software update 2025-06-09 Core Suggestions Configuration Data (1.0) - Software update 2025-06-10 macOS 12.7.4 (12.7.4) - Software update 2025-06-10 XProtectPlistConfigData (5274) - Software update 2025-06-10 XProtectPlistConfigData (5272) - Software update 2025-06-10 XProtectPlistConfigData (5299) - Software update 2025-06-10 MRTConfigData (1.93) - Software update 2025-06-10 XProtectPayloads (151) - Software update 2025-06-10 Safari (17.6) - Software update 2025-06-10 macOS 12.7.6 (12.7.6) - Software update 2025-06-11 XProtectPlistConfigData (5300) - Software update 2025-06-14 EFICheck AllowListAll (155) - Software update 2025-06-19 XProtectPlistConfigData (5301) - Software update 2025-07-10 XProtectPlistConfigData (5304) - Software update 2025-07-10 XProtectPayloads (152) - Software update 2025-07-16 XProtectPlistConfigData (5305) - Software update 2025-07-18 Dashlane (6.2322.0) - App Store 2025-07-23 XProtectPlistConfigData (5308) - Software update 2025-07-24 Xcode (14.2) - App Store Diagnostics Information (past 60 days): 2025-07-24 12:08:56 Spotlight - Crash (3 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-18 09:41:13 Executable: /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-24 12:08:53 Obsidian - Crash Executable: /Applications/Obsidian.app 2025-07-24 11:47:46 EtreCheckPro - Crash (2 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-24 11:47:18 Executable: ~/Downloads/EtreCheckPro.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-24 11:20:34 TextEdit - Crash (4 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-18 09:51:53 Executable: /System/Applications/TextEdit.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-24 11:06:18 installd - High CPU Use Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/installd 2025-07-24 10:56:17 Console - Crash (2 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-24 10:55:56 Executable: /System/Applications/Utilities/Console.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-24 10:35:22 System Information - Crash Executable: /System/Applications/Utilities/System Information.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-23 17:49:52 coreaudiod - Crash (50 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-23 17:43:57 Executable: /usr/sbin/coreaudiod 2025-07-23 16:59:35 photolibraryd - High CPU Use (18 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-17 09:19:35 Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoLibraryServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/photolibraryd Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-23 16:58:45 mediaanalysisd - Crash (20 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-17 09:18:27 Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MediaAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/mediaanalysisd 2025-07-22 13:47:21 signpost_reporter - High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter 2025-07-21 13:21:44 suggestd - High CPU Use (27 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-17 09:18:02 Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSuggestions.framework/Versions/A/Support/suggestd Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-18 09:51:01 Preview - Crash Executable: /System/Applications/Preview.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-18 08:58:21 Mail.app - High CPU Use (3 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-17 09:50:15 Executable: /System/Applications/Mail.app Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-17 09:56:38 secinitd - Crash Executable: /usr/libexec/secinitd Details: libsystem_c.dylib: abort() called 2025-07-17 09:46:04 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent - High CPU Use (26 times) First occurrence: 2025-07-17 09:19:10 Executable: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent End of report