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User profile for user: applecheeks9
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Hey experts.. I am facing problem with my MAC Book.. It has become dead slow these days.. Can you guys check the Etrecheck report and help me in resolving the problem.

Hardware Information:

MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)

MacBook - model: MacBook6,1

1 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores

2 GB RAM


Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB


System Software:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 0 days 0:4:16


Disk Information:

Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 disk0 : (232.89 GB)

(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Untitled (disk0s2) /: 65.47 GB (19.68 GB free)

My Mac (disk0s3) /Volumes/My Mac: 166.97 GB (37.97 GB free)


MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898


USB Information:

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight



Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad


Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0


Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Broadcom Corp Bluetooth Module


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:


Kernel Extensions:


Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.suhelperd.plist

[not loaded] org.samba.winbindd.plist


Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist


Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist


User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.saraten.plist


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

Android File Transfer Agent

Skype

Microsoft Database Daemon


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player


Internet Plug-ins:

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:

Picasa.plugin


Bad Fonts:

None


Top Processes by CPU:

45% mds

5% EtreCheck

3% syslogd

2% WindowServer

1% hidd

1% Google Chrome

1% Skype

0% fontd

0% configd

0% Finder


Top Processes by Memory:

230 MB mds

141 MB Skype

111 MB Google Chrome

49 MB WindowServer

47 MB Google Chrome Helper

31 MB Finder

16 MB Dock

16 MB EtreCheck

12 MB coreservicesd

12 MB UserEventAgent


Virtual Memory Statistics

544 MB Free RAM

739 MB Active RAM

322 MB Inactive RAM

186 MB Wired RAM

897 MB Page-ins

384 KB Page-outs

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 11, 2013 3:21 AM

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User profile for user: Mark Jalbert
Mark Jalbert
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Posted on Sep 11, 2013 6:16 AM

The process mds (metadata server) is using alot of cpu cycles and a fair amount of memory. I would monitor the process in the Activity Monitor.app. The process should sleep at some point then activate for a short time in cycles. The ratio of page-ins to page-outs is very high. A good indication that you could use more physical ram.

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User profile for user: Mark Jalbert
Mark Jalbert
User level: Level 5
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Sep 11, 2013 6:16 AM in response to applecheeks9

The process mds (metadata server) is using alot of cpu cycles and a fair amount of memory. I would monitor the process in the Activity Monitor.app. The process should sleep at some point then activate for a short time in cycles. The ratio of page-ins to page-outs is very high. A good indication that you could use more physical ram.

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User profile for user: ds store
ds store
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Sep 11, 2013 12:15 PM in response to applecheeks9

Disk Information:

Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 disk0 : (232.89 GB)

(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Untitled (disk0s2) /: 65.47 GB (19.68 GB free)

My Mac (disk0s3) /Volumes/My Mac: 166.97 GB (37.97 GB free)


Your partitions are also messed up.


I'm guessing here you have "Untitled" as a OS X boot volume and your user data on "My Mac"?



If you keep everything on one partition and all data (users, programs OS X) on the first 50% of the hard drive, it will perform at it's best virtually forever, or until the machine dies of hardware failure.


It's rather easy to defrag once or twice in the life of the machine using the method I have outlined here.


How to safely defrag a Mac's hard drive



Since you might have software and bad sector issues, I suggest you backup user files off the machine (not to TimeMachine, to a regular storage drive) and then (more RAM of course)


Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's


and do this + fresh install for optimal Snow Leopard speed on that machine. (ditch the extra partition)


How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6


For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks



Make sure to use the Disk Utility > Erase with Security > Zero all Data on the hard drive (2 times best), this will map off many bad sectors that are there or have occured due to shock damage and will slow read performance.


Read this also


Why is my computer slow?


and then make clones as bootable backups


Most commonly used backup methods


https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/?p er_page=50



My Snow Leopard machine is incredibly fast, even faster than many Macs with later (bloated) OS X versions.


It's because Snow was written to be fast on older 32 bit processors, so it screams on more recent machines.

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Hey experts.. I am facing problem with my MAC Book.. It has become dead slow these days.. Can you guys check the Etrecheck report and help me in resolving the problem.

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