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After heavy usage it starts to lag

Hello, I have a Mac mini (late 2012) in witch I've recently changed the hard drive to SSD, before changing the hard drive, if I used it heavily ( like to renderize videos) it didn't lag, but now when I do the same thing it does.

These are my specs:

EtreCheck version: 3.4.6 (460)

Report generated 2017-11-12 18:04:14

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Runtime: 2:09

Performance: Excellent


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Problem: Computer is too slow

Description:

After heavy usage my Mac starts to “lag”. For example 15 minutes of video editing and it starts to “lag”.


Hardware Information:

Mac mini (Late 2012)

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

Mac mini - model: Macmini6,1

1 2,5 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-3210M) CPU: 2-core

16 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Handoff/Airdrop2: supported

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

iCloud Quota: 327 MB available

iCloud Status: 2 pending files


Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1536 MB

BenQ GW2270 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz


Disk Information:

Crucial_CT525MX300SSD1 disk0: (525,11 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: No)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk0s2) <not mounted> [APFS Container]: 524.90 GB


USB Information:

USB20Bus

hub_device

hub_device

Apple, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

USB20Bus

hub_device

USB30Bus

Logitech USB Receiver

Alcor Micro, Corp. USB 2.0 PC Camera

USB DISK Pro

USB DISK Pro disk2: (7,74 GB)

NICKY (disk2s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) /Volumes/NICKY : 7.74 GB (7.43 GB free)


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Virtual disks:

Mac Mini SSD (disk1s1 - APFS) / [Startup]: 524.90 GB (479.11 GB free)

Physical disk: disk0s2 524.90 GB (479.11 GB free)

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [Preboot]: 524.90 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 524.90 GB

(disk1s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 524.90 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 524.90 GB

(disk1s4) /private/var/vm [VM]: 524.90 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 524.90 GB


System Software:

macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A405) - Time since boot: about 3 hours


Gatekeeper:

Mac App Store and identified developers


Kernel Extensions:

/Applications/duet.app

[loaded] com.kairos.driver.DuetDisplay (2.1.0 - SDK 10.12) [Lookup]


/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.ni.Fantom.nxtfwdl (1.1.1) [Lookup]


System Launch Agents:

[not loaded] 8 Apple tasks

[loaded] 179 Apple tasks

[running] 101 Apple tasks


System Launch Daemons:

[not loaded] 35 Apple tasks

[loaded] 185 Apple tasks

[running] 108 Apple tasks


Launch Agents:

[running] com.ecamm.iglasses3agent.plist (? 8a6f592c cee8acc2 - installed 2017-11-11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (? df54bba8 7c97ba23 - installed 2017-10-10) [Lookup]


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 564efddb - installed 2017-10-20) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.ni.Fantom.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-10-03)

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (Shell Script fa56dec8 - installed 2017-10-10) [Lookup]


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper Application (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-11-03)

(/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

duet Application

(/Applications/duet.app)


Internet Plug-ins:

Silverlight: 5.1.41212.0 (installed 2017-11-12) [Lookup]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 27.0.0.183 (installed 2017-10-26) [Lookup]

Flash Player: 27.0.0.183 (installed 2017-10-26) [Lookup]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-10-03)

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 9 build 181 (installed 2017-10-10) Check version

jdk: Unknown (installed 2017-10-10)


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player (installed 2017-10-20) [Lookup]

Java (installed 2017-08-03) [Lookup]


Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU:

6% WindowServer

3% kernel_task

1% mdworker

1% mdworker

1% mds


Top Processes by Memory:

940 MB kernel_task

720 MB softwareupdated

273 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

164 MB iTunes

129 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent


Top Processes by Network Use:

Input Output Process name

305 KB 35 KB mDNSResponder

184 KB 12 KB com.apple.WebKit.Networking

15 KB 14 KB apsd

10 KB 1 KB netbiosd

7 KB 2 KB cloudd


Top Processes by Energy Use:

10.34 WindowServer

0.14 iGlasses

0.08 assistantd

0.02 coreservicesd


Virtual Memory Information:

11.88 GB Available RAM

7.62 GB Free RAM

4.12 GB Used RAM

4.26 GB Cached files

0 B Swap Used


Software installs (last 30 days):

Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2017-10-18)

OBS: (installed 2017-10-19)

Graphic: 3.0.1 (installed 2017-10-23)

Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve: 14.0.1 (installed 2017-10-23)

Screeny: 2.2 (installed 2017-10-23)

Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2017-10-26)

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3: (installed 2017-11-12)


Install information may not be complete.


Diagnostics Events (last 3 days for minor events):

2017-11-12 14:15:16 Last shutdown cause: 0 - Power loss

2017-11-12 14:12:35 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent High CPU use [Open] [Details]


Thank you

Mac mini (Late 2012), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 13, 2017 5:32 AM

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Posted on Nov 20, 2017 5:30 AM

I tried the old ram and it didn't work, then I found out that Mac has installed a hardware test system (while you boot hold option + d) so I tried it and it said that there was a problem with the fan so I took it out to clean it up. When I was taking it out extra-carefully because there should of been a cable connected I saw that the fan cable wasn't connected so I cleaned the fan and put it back in with the fan connected and that's problem solved.


Thanks a lot for your help it was very useful.


Nicky

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Nov 20, 2017 5:30 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

I tried the old ram and it didn't work, then I found out that Mac has installed a hardware test system (while you boot hold option + d) so I tried it and it said that there was a problem with the fan so I took it out to clean it up. When I was taking it out extra-carefully because there should of been a cable connected I saw that the fan cable wasn't connected so I cleaned the fan and put it back in with the fan connected and that's problem solved.


Thanks a lot for your help it was very useful.


Nicky

Nov 13, 2017 5:41 AM in response to Nickyux3003

what software are you using to render? if it's a 3rd party solution have you checked on their forums for any insight.


Shut down

Disconnect all external devices except mouse, keyboard, video

reset the smc

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


reset the NVRAM

How to reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support


then boot into safe mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262


then reboot normally with devices disconnected.


if problems persist consider removing the duet driver and the iglasses software to test.

Nov 14, 2017 7:19 AM in response to Nickyux3003

don't know Happy Wheels but I'm ashamed to say I still play way too much minecraft and can suggest there may be external factors as to it's behavior on any machine.

did this just start happening or has it always been laggy?


see this article and pay special attention to the part about memory pressure.

Use Activity Monitor on your Mac - Apple Support

After heavy usage it starts to lag

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