Spinning ball after every click
My MAC is 2.5 years old and is suddenly running very slow. I see a spinning beach ball after every click. I browsed through many Apple support communities on this issue and performed some of the steps already. Here is a quick summary.
1. I cleared the cache.
2. I started in safe mode and I still see the same slowness.
3. The slowness is not just on web pages but for every single click, the computer takes ~2 mins to respond. It takes me 10 mins to type one sentence since often I have the spinning beach ball while typing. Eclipse takes about 30 mins to start.
4. The computer restart is extremely slow and takes about 5-7 mins.
5. I checked the activity monitor and I do not see any significant usage of memory or CPU.
6. Other than eclipse, tomcat-apache and MySQL, I have no third party software. I have had these software since over 2 years.
7. Chrome browser exhibits the same slowness as Safari. A simple web page like google could take 2 mins to load. Internet is working perfectly with my 3 other devices.
8. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Flash Player but no impact on slowness
9. I ran the utility to fix permissions and verify disk. No impact on slowness.
10. I have taken the required backup
11 I ran the etresoft report and here are the results
Problem description:
Spinning beach ball with every click.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated February 8, 2015 12:01:09 PM EST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Technical Specifications)
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
Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 477
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63b) - Time since boot: 3 days 3:49:51
Disk Information: ℹ️
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (417.30 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 Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro
Startup Items: ℹ️
ChmodBPF: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist [Click for details]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper Application Hidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.7 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 55 Check version
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Click for support]
Java [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
5% helpd
2% WindowServer
1% eclipse
1% Safari
0% NETGEARGenieDaemon
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
391 MB eclipse
125 MB Safari
120 MB WebProcess
90 MB mds
86 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
1.82 GB Free RAM
1.47 GB Active RAM
326 MB Inactive RAM
682 MB Wired RAM
519 MB Page-ins
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
