Slow Mac Mini

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Slow Mac Mini

Have basic late 2012 Mac mini w/ 4 GB RAM and no added apps to what came installed except Onyx. Although Activity Monitor indicates no issues, unit runs very slowly, sometimes freezes. Only email and surf internet never leaving too many "windows" open at any one time. Since purchase, upgraded to Yosemite OS X. Would consider upgrade to 16 GB RAM and possibly SSD but feel unit as is should be able to handle the simple things I use Mac for w/ original hardware. Any way I can check if I have any virus, malware, etc. or failing HD? Any possible ideas what my problem could be. I pay for fastest TWC internet speed available.

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 4, 2015 1:02 PM

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lllaass

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Sep 4, 2015 4:56 PM in response to WaltHM

Run this and post the results here so we know more about your configuration.

EtreCheck

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Linc Davis

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Sep 4, 2015 4:31 PM in response to WaltHM

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't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from 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't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don'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's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

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WaltHM Author

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Sep 4, 2015 4:33 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks. I'll follow your instructions at next opportunity.

WaltHM

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K Shaffer

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Sep 4, 2015 4:55 PM in response to WaltHM

If your configuration or build Late 2012 Mini has smaller 500GB HDD of 5400-RPM capacity

and is over 50% full, with only 4GB RAM installed, that may balk at times depending on what

it is asked to do. Some aspects of the system run in the background such as Spotlight, which

can be in the process of updating its database; and would slow the computer in general.

My Late 2012 Mac Mini shipped with Mavericks 10.9.0 and 4GB RAM installed. It also has

5400-RPM hard disk drive(s) and happens to be a server edition but not used as such now.

It has been updated, so has the last bits for Mavericks and runs OK. It would need more

hardware to handle a load under Yosemite; however slow hard drives are a bottleneck...

Mine came with dual 1-TB HDDs and a quad-core i7 2.3GHz processor; looking ahead.

And was acquired direct from Apple online in late December 2014.

{For serious chores, I still rely on older Macs and earlier OS X, reliable & dependable.}

I'd suspect if there isn't anything running in the background, and if you do not have any

scanning antivirus applications, or adware/malware components (mackeeper, etc) the

issue may relate to items in your main user account that could be in conflict. Test with a

second user account, if other indicators are not showing reasonable cause of slowness.

My Macs all run with at least 40% free or unused hard drive capacity so that automatic

virtual memory or temporary file swaps can occur without additional delay; as read-write

times and speeds are painfully slow enough as-it-is, with slow 5400-RPM HDDs. Though

a RAM upgrade may help, some aspects of applications may need to write/read to disk.

The report generated by use of suggested methods should reveal informational log files...

Good luck in any event! 🙂

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WaltHM Author

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Sep 4, 2015 5:06 PM in response to K Shaffer

Thanks K Shaffer. I have approx. 50% free on my HD . I will test w/ 2nd user account as suggested..

Pmihawal

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WaltHM Author

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Sep 5, 2015 12:04 AM in response to Linc Davis

I am a very non-tech senior. My Mac mini froze at 11:45 PM tonight so I copied and pasted the following, hopefully the text you requested. I must admit that I had been following a sports story and got engrossed and hit a few links before the freeze.

9/4/15 11:45:26.334 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:45:28.036 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:45:29.014 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.iCloudHelper[1897]) GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

9/4/15 11:45:29.213 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Killing auth hosts

9/4/15 11:45:29.213 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Session 100087 destroyed

9/4/15 11:45:29.321 PM com.apple.iCloudHelper[1897]: objc[1897]: Class FALogging is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyCircle.framework/Versions/A/FamilyCircl e and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyNotification.framework/Versions/A/Famil yNotification. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

9/4/15 11:45:29.337 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:45:29.344 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Session 100089 created

9/4/15 11:45:30.138 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]) GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

9/4/15 11:45:30.295 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:45:30.505 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: Set a breakpoint at CGSLogError to catch errors as they are logged.

9/4/15 11:45:30.505 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: This user is not allowed access to the window system right now.

9/4/15 11:45:30.509 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.

9/4/15 11:45:30.663 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:45:30.706 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:45:30.707 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: Invalid Connection ID 0

9/4/15 11:45:31.019 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:45:31.083 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1898]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:45:50.250 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:18.498 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:29.411 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.A4658AC2-A54D-48F2-B37B-76295B68D05C[1900]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

9/4/15 11:46:29.520 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:31.047 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:46.389 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:52.075 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:46:56.603 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:47:08.542 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:48:22.630 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:48:22.850 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:48:22.966 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.iCloudHelper[1909]) GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

9/4/15 11:48:22.982 PM com.apple.iCloudHelper[1909]: objc[1909]: Class FALogging is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyCircle.framework/Versions/A/FamilyCircl e and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyNotification.framework/Versions/A/Famil yNotification. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

9/4/15 11:48:22.983 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Killing auth hosts

9/4/15 11:48:22.983 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Session 100089 destroyed

9/4/15 11:48:22.994 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:48:23.004 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[81]: Session 100091 created

9/4/15 11:48:23.198 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]) GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

9/4/15 11:48:23.225 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

9/4/15 11:48:23.332 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: Set a breakpoint at CGSLogError to catch errors as they are logged.

9/4/15 11:48:23.332 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: This user is not allowed access to the window system right now.

9/4/15 11:48:23.336 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.

9/4/15 11:48:23.389 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:23.450 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:23.450 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: Invalid Connection ID 0

9/4/15 11:48:23.516 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:23.517 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:23.519 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:23.520 PM com.apple.internetaccounts[1910]: CGSConnectionByID: 0 is not a valid connection ID.

9/4/15 11:48:29.359 PM apsd[77]: Illegal subject name missing 'courier.push.apple.com' (2.5.4.3): ({

label = "2.5.4.6";

"localized label" = "2.5.4.6";

type = string;

value = US;

}, {

label = "2.5.4.8";

"localized label" = "2.5.4.8";

type = string;

value = California;

}, {

label = "2.5.4.7";

"localized label" = "2.5.4.7";

type = string;

value = Cupertino;

}, {

label = "2.5.4.10";

"localized label" = "2.5.4.10";

type = string;

value = "Apple Inc.";

}, {

label = "2.5.4.3";

"localized label" = "2.5.4.3";

type = string;

value = "courier.sandbox.push.apple.com";

})

9/4/15 11:49:23.560 PM lsuseractivityd[1639]: -[LSUserActivityClientProcess doUpdateUserActivityInfo:makeCurrent:completionHandler:], refusing to register user activity from client, and returning error Error Domain=LSContinuityErrorDomain Code=-108 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (LSContinuityErrorDomain error -108.)" for item <__NSConcreteUUID 0x7fd5407073e0> 098480BE-F5C4-4B82-9DB6-7DA28C4FBEF3 NSUserActivityTypeBrowsingWeb (LSUserActivityClientProcess.m #1148)

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WaltHM Author

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Sep 5, 2015 12:08 AM in response to lllaass

Just posted text from my Mac mini after it froze about 20 minutes ago. Sent text to Linc and sending to you also as not sure you can view my reply to him.

Hopefully this is type text that will help you in helping me re my slow Mac mini. Thanks , WaltHM