Teejae
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Q: Slow responding iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

Hello all,

I am in need of help... I have a 27-inch, Mid 2011 running the 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5.  I currently have 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 in four slots (4 each).

When I uploaded OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 and shortly after uploaded CleanMyMac 2 I started to experience tremendous latency in processing speeds on all applications.  Running CleanMyMac 2 multiple times and removing no longer used apps to free up space did little to resolve the issue.

 

Is there a diagnostics way ahead to help me identify what is causing the slow operations I am experiencing.   

 

Shane

iMac, Other OS, SLOW OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

Posted on Nov 30, 2014 4:42 PM

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    Board Head2 Apr 22, 2015 6:17 AM in response to Teejae
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    Apr 22, 2015 6:17 AM in response to Teejae

    I had this exact problem with a mid-2011 27" iMac with 4 GB of RAM.  I got the spinning beachball for sometimes minutes with OS X 10.10.2.  The upgrade to 10.10.3 improved the situation somewhat, but it still wasn't as responsive as Mavericks.  Doing a clean re-install of Yosemite was not an option because it would take me too long to re-install everything else I have on this system.  Last week, I got so frustrated that I started disabling daemons to see if one of them was causing a problem.  The problem went away after disabling a bunch of them, my system has been perfectly responsive for the last week!!  It has been a long time since I have been able to launch Safari in a single bounce of the dock icon (it used to take about a dozen bounces or so), but now it is always just one bounce again!  And my beachball problem is gone!  Horray!!

     

    Here are the Terminal commands that I used to solve this problem (I am guessing it was the disabling of the cloud stuff that fixed it):

     

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudpaird

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.Maps.mapspushd.icloud

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudd.cache-delete

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudfamilyrestrictionsd

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.icloud.fmfd

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudphotosd.push

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.icloudusernotification.agent

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.icloud.fmfd.aps

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudphotosd

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.cloudd

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent

    launchctl disable user/501/com.apple.bird

     

    I also disabled a few non-apple things:

     

    sudo launchctl disable system/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

     

    launchctl disable user/501/com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0

    launchctl disable user/501/com.google.keystone.agent

     

    After doing this, log out then log back in again.

     

    Disclaimer:  I really don't know if all of these commands are appropriate, but I don't really care because my system is working so well right now and I don't use the iCloud stuff anyway.

     

    Note that if your user ID is different than 501 you will have to change it in the commands above to get them to work for you.  Run "id" in the terminal to determine your user ID.

     

    - Phil

    Apr 22, 2015 6:17 AM

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