Q: MacBook Pro running painfully slow/lagging/freezing
Hi, my Macbook Pro is having some problems running, something that has only recently started.
I'm running OS X 10.9.2, Macbook is mid-2012. It was absolutely fine up until a few days ago, when everything started running incredibly slow. The problems I'm currently have are:
- takes around 3 mins to log in
- opening any app or web-browser brings up the spinning disc icon for a good 1 or 2 minutes before I can use the page; typing into address box etc.. also brings up the spinning disc for a while
- opening any apps has the same effect - whole macbook seems to freeze while it loads; copying and pasting in Pages has the same effect, as does trying to change the font, font size, inserting bullet points etc...
- videos lag when I try to watch them; freeze every 2 or 3 mins, and occasionally just stop playing all together even while the audio continues.
I've looked into this and it seems to be something that's happened to a lot of people. However, I've tried all the solutions with no luck. What I've tried so far:
- resetting the SMC
- resetting PRAM
- repairing the disk with disk utility
- ran a hard drive check with DriveDx ; all came back with a clean bill of health
- ran disk repair with disk utility; took around 20/30 mins but said disk was sucesfully reparied. No problems were flagged, no red warnings.
- ran a virus check - came back with nothing.
- re-installed Mavericks (though not a clean install)
- disconnected from the network to make sure it wasn't just the internet service provider being slow
- stopped any apps from opening at start up except for one
- changed preferences on system preferences so that the scroll bar is constantly visible
- installed auto-cad and ran that
- made sure there aren't many desktop icons (I have around 10)
- no external hardware is connected aside from an external hard drive I bought after the problems started happening
None of these helped my problem. In terms of mac activity:
CPU:
- nothing seems particualry high as % CPU; chrome is highest at 6.0
- system is at 1.90%
- user at 1.50%
- idle at 95%
Memory:
- Physical memory is 4 GB, with 3.18 GB memory used.
- Virtual memory is 4 GB.
- Swap used is 0 bytes.
- Memory pressure graph is just a solid green block running all the way along the y axis
There are no audible clicks or noise from the hard drive and the disk utility and drivedx checks didn't turn anything up so I'm not convinced the hard drive is failing. I've backed everything up with time machine just in case.
But I'm pretty much out of ideas now, any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Etrecheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 0 days 0:40:58
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (312.4 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1 - SDK 10.9)
Launch Daemons:
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
Boom
iTunesHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.0.0.126 - SDK 10.8 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Scorch: Version: 6.0.2 3rd-Party support link
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.2.1f4 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.0.7r148 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 21 Outdated! Update
Safari Extensions:
AdBlock: Version: 2.6.18
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
Perian 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
None
Time Machine:
Mobile backups: ON
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 174.02 GB
Destinations:
TOSHIBA EXT [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 931.19 GB
Total number of backups: 2
Oldest backup: 2014-03-05 16:07:51 +0000
Last backup: 2014-03-05 17:18:17 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 931.19 GB > (Disk used 174.02 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
3% WindowServer
1% coreaudiod
1% EtreCheck
1% Google Chrome
0% Boom
Top Processes by Memory:
143 MB Google Chrome
90 MB mds_stores
77 MB Google Chrome Helper
74 MB Finder
45 MB mds
Virtual Memory Information:
1.73 GB Free RAM
1.45 GB Active RAM
216 MB Inactive RAM
619 MB Wired RAM
435 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), Mac OS 9.2.x
Posted on Mar 6, 2014 8:28 AM