Q: Every single thing pinwheeling
Hello everyone!
Just today my 27" iMac (Mid-2011) suddenly began to perform EXTREMELY slowly. Every task is pinwheeling and 90% of the time i cannot force quit, type anything, open spotlight, open a finder window, anything. It's crippling. I cannot get anything to function. The only thing that i can do is move windows around the screen, and forcibly shut the computer down (Holding power button). In Activity Monitor nothing is using more than 500mb's of RAM (Kernel_task being the largest), and my CPU usage never spikes or raises above a few percent.
At first i thought this issue was isolated to just my game, Guild Wars 2. However these issues are occurring outside of the game and must be something system wide. I really need help with this, this computer is literally a brick now.
27" iMac (Mid 2011)
Processor: 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024MB
Hardrive: 1TB SATA (747.27GB free of 999.35GB)
Thank you so much for your time!
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Posted on Mar 19, 2015 11:56 PM