Applications sometimes take long time to launch on my 2013 iMac

EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)

Report generated 2016-05-03 22:32:28

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Runtime 3:10

Performance: Good

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Problem: Computer is too slow

Hardware Information:ⓘ

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

iMac - model: iMac14,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [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: Unknown

Video Information:ⓘ

Intel Iris Pro

iMac 1920 x 1080

System Software:ⓘ

OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 (15E65) - Time since boot: about 3 days

Disk Information:ⓘ

APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0 : (1 TB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.21 GB (390.92 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 784 MB

USB Information:ⓘ

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. MacBook Air SuperDrive

GenesysLogic USB2.0 Hub

Firewire Information:ⓘ

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad USB 3 800mbit - 800mbit max

EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

TM Backup (disk2s2) /Volumes/TM Backup : 3.00 TB (1.25 TB free)

Media (disk2s3) /Volumes/Media : 999.52 GB (352.17 GB free)

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad USB 3 800mbit - 800mbit max

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

OWC FW 2TB (disk1s2) /Volumes/OWC FW 2TB : 1.50 TB (726.14 GB free)

SG_Data (disk1s3) /Volumes/SG_Data : 501.72 GB (122.28 GB free)

Thunderbolt Information:ⓘ

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter

Gatekeeper:ⓘ

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions:ⓘ

/Applications/Transmit.app

[not loaded] com.panic.TransmitDisk.transmitdiskfs (4.0.0 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.3.4 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.4 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.4 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.4 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.1 - 2016-05-01) [Support]

[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn (6.0.0 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-05-01) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions/InstantOn.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOnCore (6.0.0 - SDK 10.6 - 2012-06-25) [Support]

~/Applications/TemperatureMonitor.app

[not loaded] com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (9.0 - 2016-01-13) [Support]

System Launch Agents:ⓘ

[failed] com.apple.softwareupdate_notify_agent.plist

[not loaded] 6 Apple tasks

[loaded] 146 Apple tasks

[running] 85 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[not loaded] 44 Apple tasks

[loaded] 149 Apple tasks

[running] 95 Apple tasks

Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2015-07-09) [Support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-03-02) [Support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (2016-01-13) [Support]

Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[failed] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-04-15) [Support]

[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist (2010-11-23) [Support]

[loaded] com.apple.aelwriter.plist

[loaded] com.bombich.ccchelper.plist (2016-02-17) [Support]

[running] com.crashplan.engine.plist (2016-04-22) [Support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (2016-03-02) [Support]

[loaded] com.malwarebytes.MBAMHelperTool.plist (2016-01-11) [Support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist (2012-04-02) [Support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (2016-01-13) [Support]

[running] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.backup-auto.plist (2016-02-13) [Support]

[loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.helper.plist (2016-02-13) [Support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.startup.plist (2016-01-13) [Support]

User Launch Agents:ⓘ

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (2013-09-01) [Support]

[failed] com.amazon.cloud-player.plist (2013-11-07) [Support]

[running] com.c-command.SpamSieve.LaunchAgent.plist (2016-04-30) [Support]

[loaded] com.digitalrebellion.PreferenceManagerAutoSave.plist (2012-01-30) [Support]

[failed] com.digitalrebellion.SoftwareUpdateAutoCheck.plist (2012-01-30) [Support]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (2016-02-23) [Support]

[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist (2016-02-27) [Support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist (2013-12-13) [Support]

[running] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist (2014-10-20) [Support]

User Login Items:ⓘ

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

CrashPlan menu bar Application (/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app)

Other Apps:ⓘ

[running] 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword4-helper

[running] com.code42.b42menuextra.133792

[running] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.211872

[running] com.getdropbox.dropbox.208992

[running] com.google.Chrome.69792

[loaded] 474 Apple tasks

[running] 220 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

MeetingJoinPlugin: Unknown - SDK 10.6 (2016-01-13) [Support]

Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-04-30)

AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101750: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 - SDK 10.4 (2016-01-13) [Support]

net.juniper.DSSafariExtensions: Unknown (2015-08-30) [Support]

AdobeAAMDetect: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 (2016-01-13) [Support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 21.0.0.226 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-22) [Support]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 11.0.03 - SDK 10.6 (2013-08-23) [Support]

Silverlight: 5.1.20125.0 - SDK 10.6 (2016-01-13) [Support]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-04-30)

Flash Player: 21.0.0.226 - SDK 10.6 (2016-04-22) [Support]

iPhotoPhotocast: 7.0 - SDK 10.7 (2016-01-13)

SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 (2013-12-13) [Support]

AdobePDFViewer: 8.0.0 (2013-09-01) [Support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 7 Update 80 (2016-01-13) Check version

Safari Extensions:ⓘ

1Password - AgileBits - http://agilebits.com/onepassword (2013-12-18)

Audio Plug-ins:ⓘ

DVCPROHDAudio: 1.3 (2007-04-20)

3rd Party Preference Panes:ⓘ

Flash Player (2016-04-15) [Support]

Growl (2009-10-28) [Support]

Java (2015-04-10) [Support]

Time Machine:ⓘ

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off

Volumes being backed up:

OWC FW 2TB: Disk size: 1.50 TB Disk used: 772.05 GB

SG_Data: Disk size: 501.72 GB Disk used: 379.44 GB

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.21 GB Disk used: 608.29 GB

Destinations:

TM Backup [Local]

Total size: 3.00 TB

Total number of backups: 74

Oldest backup: 7/1/15, 4:07 PM

Last backup: 5/3/16, 7:34 PM

Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 3.00 TB < (Disk used 1.76 TB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU:ⓘ

85% AddressBookManager

4% Google Chrome Helper(12)

3% WindowServer

1% kernel_task

1% fontd(3)

Top Processes by Memory:ⓘ

1.30 GB Google Chrome Helper(12)

1.06 GB CrashPlanService

827 MB kernel_task

369 MB mdworker(23)

344 MB Google Chrome(2)

Virtual Memory Information:ⓘ

39 MB Free RAM

7.96 GB Used RAM (1.67 GB Cached)

1.05 GB Swap Used

I checked and found out that it would cost me an ~ $250 to add 8G more to my mac. Seems a bit high for only 8 more. I would think that 8G is enough to do most stuff. Yes, I use Photoshop or Light Room once is a great while, but do I really need 16G?

dwb wrote:

Two things I notice right away is that CrashPlanService and Google Chrome helper are taking up 2GB of RAM. Chrome is a notorious resource hog but this really looks excessive to me. It might reflect a large number of open tabs or windows but one thing you might consider is switching browsers. I don’t use CrashPlan so I don’t know if iGB is excessive or not but to me it is. The third thing I noticed is something called AddressBook Manager showing CPU usage of 85%. That might have been a spike but it also could indicate a problem with the AddressBook.

I run 8G on my macbook pro and do all that and more (Final Cut Pro, etc). Never seen a beach ball EVER. It's this iMac. One thing I did, which may be the root of a lot of the slowness, is I connected (via firewire) to my old iMac that was on it's way out, and running Snow Leopard) and restored to my new iMac back when I got it less than a year ago. Maybe I have some application and junk I don't need. I should have done a clean install and copied over the things I needed... Oh well.

My wife likes to keep a lot of tabs open in Chrome. I'll talk to her about that. I have considered using Safari, but Chrome keeps my bookmarks synced between my many computers, including work PC. CrashPlan is always running, but I too am wondering about the memory usage. I'll google around and see if I find anything there. I was searching around for AddressBook Manger but only found old posts and they were not relevant to the current version.

Thanks for you help. I've always loved my macs. I'm sad that this new iMac runs like a dog at times.

One other question. I hardly ever reboot my macs. I know on Windows PCs it is something you generally need to do often. Should I be rebooting once a week to clean things up? When I do, it takes quite a while for everything to come up. Nothing like rebooting my macbook pro with it's SSD. :-)

Thanks

[failed] com.amazon.cloud-player.plist (2013-11-07) [Support]

[failed] com.digitalrebellion.SoftwareUpdateAutoCheck.plist (2012-01-30) [Support]

How can I get rid of these? Is the fact that they failed any indication of a problem?

What about this:

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[failed] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-04-15) [Support]

Thanks.

dwb wrote:

have you uninstalled Amazon’s music media player, Flash and the Digital Rebellion software?

No. I think I need Flash, don't I? Not sure what Digital Rebellion Software is...