El Capitan running slowly?

My iMac is super slow with or without running mail. Everything is slow. Making things worse it will not update the supposedly available pages update.

Its running slow again..Beachballs are back. Really good this ain't it..I'm now considering if this iMac is really fit for purpose..

I have still not got any further with getting the cctv to work.. It still only shows half a screen garbled & the other half black.. I'm wondering if that fantastic isight is being a pain. I have done the turning the isight off bit but that didn't help.. Any ideas anyone ???.

Cctv did work ok on Snow leopard & yosemite..

Hmmm. Will try that. I think there is just a lot of junk on the drive that I do not need as well. Ok. Ran EtreCheck

The following internal tasks failed to complete:

/usr/sbin/system_profiler -xml SPApplicationsDataType

Hardware Information: (What does this mean?)

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)

[Click for Technical Specifications]

[Click for User Guide]

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro6,2

1 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

[Click for upgrade instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 311 - SN = W0008Q3Y7BX0A

Video Information: (What does this mean?)

Intel HD Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M - VRAM: 256 MB

Color LCD 1440 x 900

System Software: (What does this mean?)

OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 (15B42) - Time since boot: about 4 days

Disk Information: (What does this mean?)

Hitachi HTS545050B9SA02 disk0 : (500.11 GB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Genesis V (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (99.05 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898 ()

USB Information: (What does this mean?)

Apple Card Reader

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Fitbit Inc. Fitbit Base Station

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Configuration files: (What does this mean?)

/etc/sudoers, File size 1242 but expected 2299

Gatekeeper: (What does this mean?)

Mac App Store and identified developers

Adware: (What does this mean?)

Genieo, InstallMacAdware! [Click to remove]

Kernel Extensions: (What does this mean?)

/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn/drivers

[loaded] com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3 - SDK 10.5) [Click for support]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.4.2) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer (3 - SDK 10.7) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers (1.7 - SDK 10.7) [Click for support]

System Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[killed] com.apple.BezelUI.plist

[killed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist

[killed] com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist

[killed] com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent.plist

[killed] com.apple.SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier.plist

[killed] com.apple.cdpd.plist

[killed] com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist

[killed] com.apple.followupd.plist

[killed] com.apple.gamed.plist

[killed] com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist

[killed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist

[killed] com.apple.xpc.loginitemregisterd.plist

12 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

System Launch Daemons: (What does this mean?)

[killed] com.apple.awdd.plist

[killed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist

[killed] com.apple.periodic-daily.plist

[killed] com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist

[killed] com.apple.systemstats.analysis.plist

[killed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist

6 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[running] com.amazon.sendtokindle.launcher.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.cooliris.SetLaunchArch.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.coupons.coupond.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

[failed] com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist [Click for support]

[running] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist [Click for support]

Launch Daemons: (What does this mean?)

[failed] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.fitbit.galileod.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.freemacsoft.appcleanerdaemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.insynchq.insync.daemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.logmein.raupdate.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.magican.castle.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist [Click for support]

User Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]

[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.amazon.cloud-player.plist [Click for support]

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist - /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/OSServices.framewo rk/Versions/A/Support/CSConfigDotMacCert: Executable not found!

I don't see anything that would slow my Mac down.

Same here. Did EtreCheck myself. Nothing there to slow my mac but its still slows down after using for a while. Started exactly after 10.11.1 update. Previous 10.11.0 ran fine.

Hi

i had all the same issues and tried similar fixes/tests with pram etc.

BUT

after restoring ring with time machine to previous install (which worked fine both originally and after the restore) I tried upgrading again. Previously the upgrade appeared to install ok but left me with a v v slow I useable mac with the beach ball every 10 seconds- but this time the install left me with a frozen white screen. I followed advice in the other threads on how to fix this (boot in safe mode by holding shift, find unsigned kext files and delete them). Rebooted and the install completed.

Now my mac is back to full speed. No beach ball whatsoever and it's a 2010 iMac too.

I am guessing therefore that the white screen and beach ball problems are the same thing. Ie old kext files. I had about 30 to remove Coming from things like blackberry desktop (a phone I got rid of 5 years ago and thought I'd uninstalled) and some old software from a printer I got rid of.

Hope this helps.

I solved my slowness it seems. After completely wiping and installing El Capitan I still had a lot of laggy issues. Start up was very slow, and after I let it sit it seemed to get better but opening Apps was very very slow. Spot Light even lagged, were it wouldn't even keep up with my keystrokes and I constantly got little micro pauses for the beach ball to spin a few seconds. I didn't see any CPU or Memory saturation problems, so I assumed it was my disk.

I tried all of the solutions in this thread but what seemed to help the best was turning off all of those extras in spotlight. I kept only apps, folders, and system preferences enabled, as that's really the only thing I use spotlight for anyway. Restarted after that and my system is much snappier.

/Jeff

This sounds intriguing. Can you walk me through how to "turn off all those extras in spotlight"?

Open system preferences, and click Spotlight. The first window there lists the categories included in search, like Bing Web, Calculator, Fonts, Email and all sorts of other things.

I use Outlook which has it's own search tool that I use. The only thing I want from Spotlight is apps, system settings, and maybe folders which is what I left enabled. I happened to have an update available so I installed that and restarted and things are definitely a lot better.

I find it hard to believe the "El Capitan running slowly?" problem is related to Spotlight. Maybe I don't understand Spotlight. I thought it was not even running unless you invoke it. I have not changed anything in regard to Spotlight since upgrading and my system runs fine. I did have the problem with "Mail" but solved that as outlined in this thread.

Can someone explain how the Spotlight function could cause a slowdown?

My best guess was it had something to do with indexing. The drive is old, and if it was trying to index my outlook mail and files then that could be it. It definately wasn't my cpu and ram being overutilized. Took a stab at it and that seemed to help.

I think I understand how the Spotlight works. It needs to index right after upgrading. I did find my MacBook Pro running slowly for the first couple of days. I blamed it on downloading all the sync stuff from iCloud. But once all that was done it has run fine.

My iMac was only slow for a couple of hours. It only had about 85GB of stuff on the HD.

But both machines are running great now. My MacBook Pro slows down a bit when I get 8 or 10 apps running. Especially if I have 2 browsers, all the "sync" needing apps, iMovie and Photoshop running at the same time.

It fixed my computer! I can continue using my Mac. What does this key sequence do?

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Hope is not lost!

I have a MacBook Pro 15 inch, early 2011 (yikes!) that has always been a bit cranky, prone to Safari crashes and previously running OS X 10.8.5. I really wanted to upgrade to El Capitan in the hopes that anything would improve speed and stability. Here's my story that goes from bad to worse... to great.

Yes, the download for El Capitan was slow but I expected that with my slow wi-fi so I let it do it's thing. The real problems started after the multiple restarts and verifications and full installation. IMMEDIATE spinning wheel, even opening one single web page or an app which gave me "not responding" on any app. I had to force quit multiple times. Computer essentially became desk weight. Huge frustration.

I followed the advice about resetting the SMC and there was immediate improvement (over the spinning wheel freak out) but still no better than what I had before, especially considering the time and effort. Then, I just restarted AGAIN, let it sit overnight (weird, I know but I was exhausted) and the next day... perfection. Much faster than what I had before and much more stable. Not lightning fast but very good.

These apple user threads have always helped me (unlike Apple directly) so I wanted to give you some hope. If my cranky OS X 10.8.5 can be improved, so can yours. The Captain is a 9 of 10 (after a bit of smoothing).

PS -- If you use Final Draft (for scripts) you will need to reload the courier font which the Captain doesn't recognize. Easy-Peasy.