extremely slow mac all of a sudden, Frequent SPOD

*PLEASE HELP!*

Some updates ...

- I've rebooted in Safe Mode and run Disk Utility most of the way through before it started to hang and I had to kill the process.

- I've run the Hardware check in both basic and extensive settings. No hardware problems detected.

- Restarted from there. Looked at Console and was seeing some odd messages. Spinning Wheel of Death freeze.

- Tried restarting in Safe Mode, I've gotten to my login point and am getting Spinning Wheel of Death again!

Hi:

Thank you so much for responding!!!! ...

Yes, I'm aware of Recovery Mode. I've been trying to avoid it if possible. Looks like I might not be able to. I guess I don't understand if my Hardware check says there's nothing wrong with the Hard Disk.

Anyway ...

If I want to do Recovery Mode from Mountain Lion, it *is* correct to say that I just need an internet connection and a Time Machine backup, right? I do not need a boot-able disk?

Okay, a tech person is saying I should reboot in Recovery Mode and try to "repair the disk" first in Disk Utility. This may fix the problem. Before, I was running Disk Utility from within the OS, so I couldn't apparently "repair the disk", only repair the permissions.

More help needed ***Update***

I've now twice done a reinstall of the OS. The first time, the operation seemed to be great then I ran "repair disk permissions" which identified flaws in the JavaInstall and several CoreGraphics extensions. I 'repaired' those permissions, which made the system run slow again, with frequent SWODs. Generally speaking, these happen when I try to click on something or am using a web browser (happens with both Firefox and Chrome). I also get it frequently with Finder and have gotten repeated hangs when scrolling through a Powerpoint presentation (~15 MB in size). The second reinstall seems to also get hangs at the same moments.

I've attached the new EtreCheck log:

EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)

Report generated November 7, 2014 9:22:25 AM HST

Hardware Information: ℹ️

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

4 GB RAM

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 512 MB

Color LCD 1280 x 800

System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0:43:21

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (111.04 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8

USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Anywhere

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/Applications/ASD Standard Apps/Internet/FTP & SFTP clients/Transmit.app

[not loaded] com.panic.TransmitDisk.

transmitdiskfs (4.0.0 - SDK 10.5) Support

/Applications/ASD Standard Apps/Utilities/Temperature Monitor 4.96/TemperatureMonitor.app
[not loaded] com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (9.0) Support

/System/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1 - SDK 10.1) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSB (1.1.8 - SDK 10.5) Support

/System/Library/Extensions/MotMobileUSB.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileMS (1.0.0 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileMTP (1.1.8 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBLAN (1.1.8 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBLANMerge (1.1.8 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.motorola-mobility.driver.MotMobileUSBSwch (1.1.8 - SDK 10.5) Support

Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.motorola.motohelper.plist Support
[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist Support

Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[invalid?] com.motorola-mobility.mmcfgd.plist Support
[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist Support

User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support

User Login Items: ℹ️
None

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 15.0.0.189
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.5.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.7 - SDK 10.6 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.5.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20125.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.6.0 - SDK 10.8 Check version

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
TeXDistPrefPane Support

Time Machine: ℹ️
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Destinations:
My Book [Local]
Total size: 2.00 TB
Total number of backups: 31
Oldest backup: 2012-09-22 01:18:32 +0000
Last backup: 2014-10-16 01:02:18 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
4% Activity Monitor
2% WindowServer
2% activitymonitord
0% Finder
0% ps

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
107 MB Finder
77 MB mds
39 MB WindowServer
34 MB Dock
30 MB coreservicesd

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
2.07 GB Free RAM
762 MB Active RAM
229 MB Inactive RAM
1.23 GB Wired RAM
337 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

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My planned next step is that if this doesn't improve then I will nuke the hard drive entirely, reinstall the OS, and reinstall from a TimeMachine backup.

I followed what Linc recommended on another forum here, running the bash script he produced:

MacbookPro started running really slow. Please help...

The good news is that it doesn't look like I'm getting I/O errors. I am getting a lot of other things that are confusing to me.

Start time: 13:44:33 11/07/14

Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,2

System Version: OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)

Kernel Version: Darwin 12.5.0

Time since boot: 13 minutes

Log

Nov 7 09:28:05 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:34:14 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:35:08 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:35:56 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:36:18 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:48:19 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:48:34 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:48:48 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:49:35 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:50:08 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:50:29 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:58:33 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 09:59:27 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 10:02:43 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 10:06:22 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 10:09:54 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid c8

Nov 7 10:10:43 PM notification timeout (pid 41, loginwindow)

Nov 7 10:10:43 PM notification timeout (pid 41, loginwindow)

Nov 7 10:10:43 PM notification timeout (pid 140, Finder)

Nov 7 10:10:43 PM notification timeout (pid 140, Finder)

Nov 7 10:11:14 PM notification timeout (pid 31, powerd)

Nov 7 11:07:37 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #2, bssid 00

Nov 7 13:32:37 jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 36371968 to: 6909440 (joffset 0x1238a000)

Nov 7 13:32:37 jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.

Nov 7 13:34:29 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 00

I/O per process: kextcache (UID 0) is using 2 MB/s

kexts

com.globaldelight.driver.

BoomDevice (1.1)

Daemons

org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
com.motorola-mobility.mmcfgd
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.google.keystone.daemon
com.adobe.fpsaud

Agents

org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
com.motorola.motohelper
com.google.keystone.system.agent
com.adobe.ARM.UUID

launchd

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist
- com.apple.xprotectupdater
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
- com.google.keystone.system.agent
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.motorola.motohelper.plist
- com.motorola.motohelper
/Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
- org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
- com.adobe.fpsaud
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
- com.google.keystone.daemon
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
- com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.motorola-mobility.mmcfgd.plist
- com.motorola-mobility.mmcfgd
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
- com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
- org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx
Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARM.UUID.plist
- com.adobe.ARM.UUID

Bundles

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Flip4Mac WMA Import.component
- net.telestream.wmv.import
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
- com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
- com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewerNPAPI
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin
- N/A
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
- net.telestream.wmv.plugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
- com.google.googletalkbrowserplugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
- com.apple.java.JavaAppletPlugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
- com.google.o1dbrowserplugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
- com.microsoft.sharepoint.browserplugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
- com.microsoft.sharepoint.webkitplugin
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
- com.microsoft.SilverlightPlugin
/Library/PreferencePanes/Flash Player.prefPane
- com.adobe.flashplayerpreferences
/Library/PreferencePanes/Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
- net.telestream.wmv.prefpane
/Library/PreferencePanes/TeXDistPrefPane.prefPane
- comp.text.tex.distribution.preference
/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
- net.telestream.wmv.advanced
/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
- net.telestream.wmv.export
/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
- net.telestream.wmv.import
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle
- com.skype.skypeabdialer
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABSMS.bundle
- com.skype.skypeabsms
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/YMsgrCallABPlugin.bundle
- com.yahoo.YMsgrCallABPlugin
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/YMsgrMsnABPlugin.bundle
- com.yahoo.YMsgrMsnABPlugin
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/YMsgrSmsABPlugin.bundle
- com.yahoo.YMsgrSmsABPlugin
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/YMsgrYimABPlugin.bundle
- com.yahoo.YMsgrYimABPlugin
Library/Services/GraphicConverter.service
- com.lemkesoft.graphicconverter.GraphicConverter-Service

Apps

/Applications/Dropbox.app

Contents of /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist (XML document text)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent</string>
<key>EnableTransactions</key>
<true/>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
<string>Aqua</string>
<key>LaunchEvents</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.distnoted.matching</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.airport.agent.prefschanged</key>
<dict>
<key>Name</key>
<string>com.apple.airport.agent</string>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>com.apple.bonjour.events</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.airport.agent.add</key>

...and 19 more line(s)

Contents of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist (XML document text)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.xprotectupdater</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/XProtectUpdater</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>2</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>4</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Font issues: 36

DNS: 128.171.1.1

Wi-Fi

link auth: none

Restricted files: 1767

Elapsed time (s): 2096

HELP? I'm still getting these errors.