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Lion: very slow performance of my macbook pro

very slow performance.


went to terminal, did the top command, and got following results (mind you, ONLY have Safari and of course Terminal open):




Processes: 96 total, 4 running, 9 stuck, 83 sleeping, 419 threads 19:07:17

Load Avg: 1.99, 1.81, 1.59 CPU usage: 2.36% user, 5.21% sys, 92.41% idle

SharedLibs: 1660K resident, 0B data, 0B linkedit.

MemRegions: 15947 total, 2662M resident, 47M private, 209M shared.

PhysMem: 695M wired, 2175M active, 1083M inactive, 3953M used, 13M free.

VM: 250G vsize, 1093M framework vsize, 699065(68) pageins, 1724738(881) pageouts

Networks: packets: 70104/55M in, 66648/10M out.

Disks: 966630/9347M read, 327765/18G written.



PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MREG RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE

4058 top 5.2 00:03.32 1/1 0 28 29 912K 216K 1620K

4055 bash 0.0 00:00.02 1 0 20 23 356K 216K 1112K

4052 CVMCompiler 0.0 00:00.30 1 0 30 69 7780K 220K 16M

4051 login 0.0 00:00.08 2 1 33 63 928K 216K 2184K

4049 Terminal 0.3 00:01.34 7 3 128+ 164+ 7580K+ 13M 15M+

4042 ocspd 0.0 00:00.02 1 0 26 33 420K+ 276K 1376K+

4041 WebProcess 0.0 00:04.35 7 3 119 201 16M- 10M 26M-

4039 Safari 1.1 00:09.44 12 3 193 413 47M- 20M 81M-

3958 spindump_age 0.0 00:00.02 2 2 38 55 356K 220K 1100K

3956 spindump 1.3 00:42.93 16/1 13 228 145 46M+ 15M 53M+

3953 aosnotifyd 0.0 00:00.18 3 1 53 279 2064K 3532K 6156K

3939 AddressBookM 6.8 06:59.11 4 1 68 4067+ 2131M- 3308K 1554M-

3895 lsboxd 0.0 00:00.06 2 2 49 69 1156K 6820K 3292K

3031 cookied 0.0 00:01.36 2 1 42 82 2028K 268K 3





every minute or so the computer blocks, every 3 or 4 hours I have to restart etc.

any suggestions?

Posted on Jul 30, 2011 10:18 AM

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Posted on Jul 30, 2011 10:22 AM

Do you have any third party software running? How much HDD space digit have left? Looking at the snippet you posted the amount of free memory on your machine is 13mb, which isn't a hole lot. You may have something lee installed like a utility of sone sorts that doesn't have a dock icon. Having very low HDD space can also effect th virtual ram and paging. You might try verifying your startup disk or repairing permissions.

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Jul 30, 2011 10:22 AM in response to markfromalicante

Do you have any third party software running? How much HDD space digit have left? Looking at the snippet you posted the amount of free memory on your machine is 13mb, which isn't a hole lot. You may have something lee installed like a utility of sone sorts that doesn't have a dock icon. Having very low HDD space can also effect th virtual ram and paging. You might try verifying your startup disk or repairing permissions.

Jul 30, 2011 12:52 PM in response to alexyorke

ok where do we start :-)


150gB free on hard disk - so should not be the problem

verifying and repairing permissions did


checked activity monitor and nothing else or nothing important seems to be running.


is there somewhere some software that could make the check for me? Have Hzel running, have regular clean ups with cleanmymac etc.


It seems something that really started with installing Lion - sometimes there was the usual delay in running a program, maybe once a few days, now it is really every few hours.

Jul 30, 2011 2:28 PM in response to markfromalicante

What you can do is open activity monitor (again) and click on one of the column that says "real memory" at the top where the processes are listed. There is a drop down menu at the top of the window that might say "My processes". Switch it to all processes. At the top it should display the process that is using the most system memory. If it has a reading of kilobytes, click on real memory again.


I noticed from the snippet that you are quite low on memory. Post the name of the process that appears at the top of the list, because it might be a third party process, or an apple application such as Safari or iPhoto.

Jul 31, 2011 12:16 AM in response to markfromalicante

well, didn t take long to slow down :-(

note: neither am I using addressbook nor am I updating my mobilme account at the moment, but get following




847 AddressBookMobileMeSharingAgent me 40,1 4 1,26 GB Intel (64 bit)

798 Safari Web Content me 0,0 8 350,5 MB Intel (64 bit)

0 kernel_task root 5,8 76 341,0 MB Intel (64 bit)

701 Mail me 101,6 12 275,1 MB Intel (64 bit)

796 Safari me 0,0 16 115,8 MB Intel (64 bit)

683 java root 0,1 31 115,4 MB Intel (64 bit)

67 mds root 0,0 7 45,2 MB Intel (64 bit)

Jul 31, 2011 1:27 AM in response to markfromalicante

ok, stopped syncing in System preferences and even (horror) deleted the file which reappeared in seconds.


now waiting to see if stopping the syncing helps - though computer is now working a bit better, the info on Activity Monitor would indicate it is not a real improvement



473 AddressBookMobileMeSharingAgent me 1,4 4 1.020,0 MB Intel (64 bit)

312 helpd me 0,4 65 358,9 MB Intel (64 bit)

0 kernel_task root 1,1 76 336,6 MB Intel (64 bit)

459 Mail me 0,4 9 276,2 MB Intel (64 bit)

194 java root 0,1 30 162,4 MB Intel (64 bit)

405 Safari me 0,5 12 120,0 MB Intel (64 bit)

407 Safari Web Content me 0,2 7 100,3 MB Intel (64 bit)

195 WindowServer _windowserver 0,5 7 64,4 MB Intel (64 bit)

Jul 31, 2011 2:06 AM in response to markfromalicante

I think I' ve solved it - but without help on this forum never would have been able to!


some time ago I downloaded a little program to connect my addressbook to facebook. never really worked, so gave up on it. BUT it seems that with Lion installed, it sort of went working on its own, consuming vast amounts of memory ... not reidiculous since have some 12000 people in my address book and some 4800 in facebook.


deleting them (using cleanmymac and hazel - both of them) seems to have solved the matter and the strange file has disappeared.


again, many thanks for the information

mark

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