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airkarol

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since a few days ago, my mbp (2ghz) has been running a little slow, the hard drive still has 64.85 gb left (the partition is 80) and has a gig of ram

i havnt put puch on the computer, just photoshop, adium, m0audio drivers and bittorrent, and performed all the apple software updates?

any ideas??

thanks
 
Try running Activity Monitor to see if there is a process you don't know about taking up a large amount of CPU time. I've had that happen a couple of times (Menu Meters is great at helping you catch stuff like this).

Best wishes.
 
its been running slow all the time.configd, kernel task, and windowserver are at the top of the list.
 
If you go into System Preferences...->Accounts, add a new test account, and then log off your main account and into that one, do you still see the slowness? If so, it's something more insidious. If not, it's more easily fixed.
 
kernal is 15.40 @ cpu and 83.51mb ram

right now safari is up to 31.80%cpu and 74.13 ram

window server = 2.69% cpu, and config d is at 0% now
 
My guess is a process out of hand... occasionally I have a printer monitor running I dont know about which totally kills my iBook, so in Activity Monitor I quit the application and everything is great.
 
airkarol said:
kernal is 15.40 @ cpu and 83.51mb ram

right now safari is up to 31.80%cpu and 74.13 ram

window server = 2.69% cpu, and config d is at 0% now
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Wow. They're quite high. What are you doing at the moment? What have you got plugged in? Are you visiting sites with a lot of Flash animation?
 
mad jew said:
Wow. They're quite high. What are you doing at the moment? What have you got plugged in? Are you visiting sites with a lot of Flash animation?
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in safari, i have 2 macrumors tabs open, and external hd with 2 partitions is plugged in, a 2nd display, keyboard/mouse combo, power adapter, m-audio firewire 1814
 
Is that with all peripherals unplugged, or just the hard drive? :)

Also, have you tried jsw's idea of making a new user account to see if the problems carry over?
 
Okay, well create a new account. It's an excellent way of checking whether this is a user preference problem or not. My guess is it'll probably still be slow in the new account though. Hopefully not. :)
 
Excellent. This means that at the worst, you can just transfer everything over to the new account.

Alternatively, we can try to find the problem with your first account. Do you have any add-ons for Safari? That seems to be the best place to start looking. :)
 
Okay, well I can't really help more than saying either transfer your files over to the new account or have a look through the different apps you've installed on this old account to see if there's anything suspicious. In particular, check out your Login Items in the System Preferences.

Also, since Safari was one of the culprit, try dragging a file named com.apple.Safari.plist to the Desktop on your old account whilst Safari is closed. Does this help a little?
 
Try reseting safari from the menu bar under the menu titled "Safari" - but beware that you will lose EVERYTHING you currently have setup in safari, I believe this includes your bookmarks, so back that info up first if you want to save it.
 
is reseting safari the same as dragging com.apple.safari.plist to the desktop?
 
airkarol said:
is reseting safari the same as dragging com.apple.safari.plist to the desktop?
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No - resetting Safari does a lot more. Have you tried rebooting first just to make sure that doesn't fix it?

Also, if you reboot or log off/in and not start Safari, do you see the same issues (aside from Safari)? Or does it seem to just be Safari?

And... does this happen if you never open Dashboard? Some widgets are PowerPC ones and will eat up lots of CPU/RAM. if you don't open the Dashboard after logging in, they won't start.

Finally, if you go to System Preferences...->Accounts, pick your account, and look at Login items, is there anything unusual listed there?
 
airkarol said:
is reseting safari the same as dragging com.apple.safari.plist to the desktop?
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Well, they do different things. Resetting Safari effectively cleans out the temporary files whereas removing the PLIST file resets all the customisations a user has made to Safari back to their defaults. By customisations, I basically mean anything you can change in the Safari Preferences. :)
 
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