Rendering becomes slow

Sometimes, we as the user that were logged into can be a issue.

Try creating a new user; test

then login as user test and try the same steps as the other user.

This will isolate if it’s your user account that’s causing the problem.

PS; regarding activity monitor, click on tab memory and report back.

There should be little “swap”, if there’s a lot this could be a sign of not enough of “ram memory” the system has installed.

Swapping memory out from ram to the hard drive is one of the slowest operations the system can do.

The system does swapping when the application runs out of local on board ram memory, and has to swap a block/s from ram back to the hard disk to free up needed space.

Once cleared, It then must load data from hard disk memory to onboard local Ram memory.

The swap number reported by activity mon is based on;

• how long system has been up and running.
• It also depends on the number of applications you have concurrently running.
• I typically run a system with the app that the user is experiencing issues with for a couple hours or more then check swap number reported. Numbers > 500\1000 could be an indicator you could benefit from adding more local ram.

There are other reasons that can contribute to your condition, but I’m hopeful this may shed light on it.

Best of Days to you All

I’m not an expert in this area by any means, but for starters I would open Activity Monitor, select the CPU tab and check to see how many cores the software is actually using.

when slow, you do not appear to be waiting for CPU.

other than the boot drive, what drives are you using?