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mac book pro very slow el capitan

Hello,

my MacBook Pro is running very slow. It freezes sometimes and i get SBBOD a lot. I have not installed mac keeper or such, and I have read and followed these instructions: How to eliminate slow Mac problems

Here is my EtreCheck-report:

EtreCheck version: 2.6.6 (226)

Report generated 02.01.16, 14:48

Runtime 37:04

Download EtreCheck from http://etrecheck.com

Hardware Information: (What does this mean?)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

[Click for Technical Specifications]

[Click for User Guide]

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

1 2,5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

[Click for upgrade instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

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

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 390 - SN = W043115GLD3LC

Video Information: (What does this mean?)

Intel HD Graphics 4000

Color LCD 1280 x 800

System Software: (What does this mean?)

OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 (15C50) - Time since boot: about one hour

Disk Information: (What does this mean?)

APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500,11 GB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

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

+# (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (416.04 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N ()

USB Information: (What does this mean?)

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Thunderbolt Information: (What does this mean?)

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: (What does this mean?)

Mac App Store and identified developers

Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[loaded] com.divx.dms.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.divx.update.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]

Launch Daemons: (What does this mean?)

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.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.sonos.smbbump.plist [Click for support]

User Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

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

User Login Items: (What does this mean?)

Plex Media Server Programm (/Applications/Plex Media Server.app)

Other Apps: (What does this mean?)

[running] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.121632

[running] org.mozilla.firefox.48352

Internet Plug-ins: (What does this mean?)

OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 [Click for support]

Default Browser: Version: 601 - SDK 10.11

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.0.0.126 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]

DivX Plus Web Player: Version: 2.3 - SDK 10.5 [Click for support]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.13 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 20.0.0.267 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 20.0.0.267 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.5.9 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.13 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 66 build 17 Check version

Safari Extensions: (What does this mean?)

Adblock Plus

3rd Party Preference Panes: (What does this mean?)

Flash Player [Click for support]

Flip4Mac WMV [Click for support]

Java [Click for support]

Time Machine: (What does this mean?)

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off

Volumes being backed up:

+#: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 82.84 GB

Destinations:

TimeMachine [Network]

Total size: 3.97 TB

Total number of backups: 16

Oldest backup: 26.12.15, 15:33

Last backup: 01.01.16, 19:38

Size of backup disk: Excellent

Backup size 3.97 TB > (Disk size 498.88 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: (What does this mean?)

5% WindowServer

2% kernel_task

0% cloudpaird

Top Processes by Memory: (What does this mean?)

786 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

724 MB kernel_task

598 MB firefox

246 MB Safari

238 MB iTunes

Virtual Memory Information: (What does this mean?)

2.12 GB Free RAM

5.88 GB Used RAM (2.59 GB Cached)

0 B Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: (What does this mean?)

Jan 2, 2016, 01:02:17 PM Self test - passed

Thanks for your help

Benni

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 2, 2016 6:41 AM

Top-ranking reply

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,649 points

Posted on Jan 2, 2016 11:29 AM

Contrary to what you read, posting "etrecheck" stuff on this site is not the right way to get help.

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 one 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.

If you have an account on Pastebin, please don't select Private from the Paste Exposure menu on the page, because then no one but you will be able to see it.

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16 replies

Heli A

Level 1

9 points

Aug 24, 2016 4:28 PM in response to Otelina

Hi dear Otelina if you want open a new thread to continue... But you have very low ram also

You must put more ram at least 8 gb if you cant find an Apple store close to you and take your macbook to change it. If you know how to change it and is not so difficult you can find online stores to buy and one is mac sales com ( https://www.macsales.com/ ) You can chat with them too to instruct you.

Now as for the others it need more investigation and i cant here. open a new thread.But becareful what you do. Not all instructions you can read here are related to your problem. Any problem is unique.

Respect and my greetings to Link Davis as it happened to be at this thread.

mac book pro very slow el capitan