Please help, performance issues on my 13" MBA Ultimate!

[ArchRivalNeo]

Hey guys,

So the response from Chrome has become less snappy as time has passed. I have had to restart my Mac after it froze (have Youtube to blame too) twice, and I lost important data the second time I had to force reboot. I regularly have at least 20 tabs open I keep it that way for as much time as I can. Don't know if that makes any difference.

I used to have a Picasa web slideshow open all the time as well (either paused or playing), but I noticed after I closed it the frequency of lag decreased a bit. Now when I notice the lag is when I move my cursor after it staying at the same place for some time, or when i try to scroll down or up a page. The lag is short, a 10th of a second or so, but it seems to have effected my whole system. The system response to a keystroke or any action seems hesitant now.

I even tried running Onyx to clean my Mac, but it seems to have done not much. I have also tried closing unnecessary tabs as well, but it doesn't seem to help the frequent short lags. Please help, I don't know what else I can do!!! Really want to give Chrome another chance.

Required information, running a 13" Macbook Air (late 2010 model). It is the highest end model with a 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor, nVidia 320M integrated Graphics, 4 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. All running on OS X 10.6.7

 

[SR71]

Open Activity Monitor and make sure your window looks like the one displayed below. Also, don't forget to select "%CPU" so that it puts the processes in order of what is using up most of your CPU. When you've done all of this, please take a screenshot of it (CMD+Shift+3) and post it in this thread so we can see what is using up your CPU so we can address the problem.

Hope this helps!

 

[Mechinyun]

Sounds like 10.6.7 to me

Read this

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1133968/

 

[mayhone1]

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[SR71]

Sounds like 10.6.7 to me

Read this

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1133968/

Depends. I want to see his Activity Monitor first before I give him a solution as it could be just another program going crazy using up all his CPU, or it could be a memory leak in another program.

 

[mayhone1]

hmmm, maybe re-install Chrome!

 

[SR71]

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Umm... what exactly is the point of your post?

 

[SR71]

Macbook Air Spill damage protection, 2nd attempt at question.
I've asked this before but got no real responses in terms of answering my question, so again I was wondering where I could buy a macbook air with a plan or extra coverage that helps protect against spill damage.

Please start a new thread with your question, as your question has absolutely nothing to do with this post what-so-ever. When you start a new thread, I will happily give you an answer.

 

[ArchRivalNeo]

Open Activity Monitor and make sure your window looks like the one displayed below. Also, don't forget to select "%CPU" so that it puts the processes in order of what is using up most of your CPU. When you've done all of this, please take a screenshot of it (CMD+Shift+3) and post it in this thread so we can see what is using up your CPU so we can address the problem.

Hope this helps!

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Hey Man,

Thanks for your help. I've attached a screenshot of my Activity monitor as per your instructions.

I've moved over to Firefox now, but for this I just opened one of my previous 30+ tabs session in Chrome, let them load up, and took the screen shot. The %CPU count was jumping all over the place, but I managed to take a screenshot when Chrome was near the top of the list. Let me know what else you need for me.

Appreciate the help dude...thanks!

 

[halledise]

Hey guys,

So the response from Chrome has become less snappy as time has passed. I have had to restart my Mac after it froze (have Youtube to blame too) twice, and I lost important data the second time I had to force reboot. I regularly have at least 20 tabs open I keep it that way for as much time as I can. Don't know if that makes any difference.

I used to have a Picasa web slideshow open all the time as well (either paused or playing), but I noticed after I closed it the frequency of lag decreased a bit. Now when I notice the lag is when I move my cursor after it staying at the same place for some time, or when i try to scroll down or up a page. The lag is short, a 10th of a second or so, but it seems to have effected my whole system. The system response to a keystroke or any action seems hesitant now.

I even tried running Onyx to clean my Mac, but it seems to have done not much. I have also tried closing unnecessary tabs as well, but it doesn't seem to help the frequent short lags. Please help, I don't know what else I can do!!! Really want to give Chrome another chance.

Required information, running a 13" Macbook Air (late 2010 model). It is the highest end model with a 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor, nVidia 320M integrated Graphics, 4 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. All running on OS X 10.6.7

you could do worse than run this little sequence:


reset SMC
reset NVRAM
repair permissions - using disk utility.

in Terminal:
(copy and paste one command at a time, the 2nd and 3rd take a little while to execute)

sudo chown root:admin /
(now you'll be asked to enter your system password)

sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

sudo kextcache -system-caches

now restart and see how you go
everything should be snappier