Imac, Yosemite spinning wheel problem

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Recently, when scrolling or just using mouse, the spinning wheel displays, &lt;for about 1-2 seconds&gt;  not all the time but often enough to be an annoyance. Also, I am using the magic mouse and bluetooth keyboard and when I type or click the mouse, there is a slight hesitation between when I click or type and that is also annoying. This is a recent thing, and I was wondering if anyone else has similar problems or solutions. Thanks in advance.

rkaufmann87 · Answer

grandpamike,Post an EtreCheck of your computer the next time you have the problem. We can then look at the report and look for obvious issues. Also, your computer has a 1 year warranty and if it is less than 90 days old or if you have already purchased it, you have AppleCare telephone support available to you.You can get EtreCheck by clicking http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Linc Davis · Answer

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.   These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn&#x27;t, select          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messagesfrom the log list on the left. If you don&#x27;t see that list, select          View ▹ Show Log Listfrom the menu bar at the top of the screen.Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.Please don&#x27;t indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.Please don&#x27;t post screenshots of log messages—post the text.Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That&#x27;s a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

grandpamike · Answer

EtreCheck version: 2.2 (132)Report generated 7/27/15, 2:54 PMDownload EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheckClick the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.Hardware Information: ℹ️    iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) (Technical Specifications)    iMac - model: iMac15,1    1 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core    24 GB RAM Upgradeable        BANK 0/DIMM0            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 1/DIMM0            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 0/DIMM1            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok        BANK 1/DIMM1            8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported    Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/acVideo Information: ℹ️    AMD Radeon R9 M290X - VRAM: 2048 MB        iMac 4096 x 2304System Software: ℹ️    OS X 10.10.4 (14E46) - Time since boot: 26 days 3:19:52Disk Information: ℹ️    APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)        EFI (disk0s1) &lt;not mounted&gt; : 210 MB         Boot OS X (disk0s3) &lt;not mounted&gt; : 134 MB         Macintosh HD (disk2) / : 1.11 TB (985.95 GB free)            Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online            Core Storage: disk1s2 999.35 GB Online    APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 disk1 : (1 TB)        EFI (disk1s1) &lt;not mounted&gt; : 210 MB         Recovery HD (disk1s3) &lt;not mounted&gt;  [Recovery]: 650 MB         Macintosh HD (disk2) / : 1.11 TB (985.95 GB free)            Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online            Core Storage: disk1s2 999.35 GB OnlineUSB Information: ℹ️    Iomega eGo USB 500.11 GB        Iomega_HDD (disk3s1) /Volumes/Iomega_HDD : 500.11 GB (294.47 GB free)    Apple Inc. 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rkaufmann87 · Answer

On a system with 24GB of RAM you should almost NEVER be running out of RAM. Your report indicates  1.03 GB    Free RAM     23.00 GB    Used RAM     2 MB    Swap UsedThis mean some process is using a HUGE amount of RAM. Learn how to use Activity Monitor by clicking Use Activity Monitor to read system memory and determine how much RAM is being used (OS X Mountain Lion and earlier) - A… and see what is using up your RAM. That is the first step and will likely tell you what is going on.

Linc Davis · Answer

Now you&#x27;re getting the usual results of posting "etrecheck" output on this site. I don&#x27;t know whether the memory statistics shown in the output are accurate, but if they are, they&#x27;re perfectly normal.

grandpamike · Answer

Before I received your response, I did a re-start, and it seems to have fixed this specific problem. I am making an assumption here, but when my PC  would slow down, a re-start would clear memory and all would be fine, so I guess a similar problem arose when something was in memory and a re-start cleared it out. Does that seem reasonable ? Plus, I will check with activity monitor and see what is getting stuck or using all of that memory. Thanks.