My computer is slowing down and there is probably many different issues that are causing it. Youtube is lagging badly and Mainstage and OBS are really slow. I did the EtreCheck on my computer but need help to understand the results.
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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
fixing this issue alone will give a large, although perhaps temporary, inprovement
Time since boot: About 157 days
you are over-committed for the amount of REAL RAM you have, which causes swapping, which causes delays in thing like playing Videos. AND it slows your effective drive speed because paging is competing with regular I/O
Virtual Memory Information:
Physical RAM: 16 GB
Free RAM: 42 MB
Used RAM: 9.25 GB
Cached files: 6.71 GB
Available RAM: 6.75 GB
Swap Used: 2.12 GB
Performance:
System Load: 3.12 (1 min ago) 3.35 (5 min ago) 3.55 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O usage: 0.01 MB/s
File system: 19.22 seconds
Write speed: 554 MB/s
Read speed: 1987 MB/s
we typically see drive Write speeds within about 10 percent of drive Read speeds. Your numbers are wonky, likely due to so much paging.
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Chrome is particularly resource-intensive because it installs Google which renders your Mac a full time information-harvesting and -uploading "bot" for Google's purposes. Those processes can't be turned off or disabled, even if you quit the Chrome browser. Even without knowing what else is installed on that Mac it is all but assured a multitude of Google's automatically updating virus-like processes are causing your Mac to work overtime.
Get rid of it. No one needs Chrome. Follow the above removal instructions.
—senior contributor John Galt
fixing this issue alone will give a large, although perhaps temporary, inprovement
Time since boot: About 157 days
you are over-committed for the amount of REAL RAM you have, which causes swapping, which causes delays in thing like playing Videos. AND it slows your effective drive speed because paging is competing with regular I/O
Virtual Memory Information:
Physical RAM: 16 GB
Free RAM: 42 MB
Used RAM: 9.25 GB
Cached files: 6.71 GB
Available RAM: 6.75 GB
Swap Used: 2.12 GB
Performance:
System Load: 3.12 (1 min ago) 3.35 (5 min ago) 3.55 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O usage: 0.01 MB/s
File system: 19.22 seconds
Write speed: 554 MB/s
Read speed: 1987 MB/s
we typically see drive Write speeds within about 10 percent of drive Read speeds. Your numbers are wonky, likely due to so much paging.
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Chrome is particularly resource-intensive because it installs Google which renders your Mac a full time information-harvesting and -uploading "bot" for Google's purposes. Those processes can't be turned off or disabled, even if you quit the Chrome browser. Even without knowing what else is installed on that Mac it is all but assured a multitude of Google's automatically updating virus-like processes are causing your Mac to work overtime.
Get rid of it. No one needs Chrome. Follow the above removal instructions.
—senior contributor John Galt
Grant Bennet-Alder is spot on with the analysis. You also cannot ignore that Focusrite Control is using 99.98% of your CPU core. There may be an update to the app or you may not need it at all.
Thank you for your help! I deleted Chrome and a bunch of Google files and it already helped a bunch :)
MacBook Pro is running slowly and YouTube is lagging
