2019 iMac sluggish startup and system overload with Logic Pro playback
Hello. I've been having sluggish startups for a month or so to the point that I now turn on the machine and walk away for 5-10 minutes before being able to open and run anything. Also, launching a program for the first time in the day is a waiting game for it to load and be able to do anything like type into a google search. Usually, once a program is opened and running, I can operate just fine.
The biggest problem is playback in Logic. The system overload error that stops playback has increased in frequency over the last month, I'd say, and now with all tracks frozen and buffer set to 1024, and opening the same sessions I've been working on for months I'm now not able to get more than 5 seconds or so of playback before it halts and tells me it's a system overload.
Is this a hard drive issue? If so, how do I know that for sure and what to do about it? I have daily backups to an external drive.
2019 iMac Retina 5k, 27 inch
Processor: 3.7 GHz 6-core Intel Core i5
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB
Memory: 40GB 2667 MHz DDR4
2TB Fusion Drive
macOS 13.7.4
Thanks in advance!
iMac 27″, macOS 13.7
