Well just in general, like now there is just firefox,itunes and utorrent open and its really sluggish if I open something else.
Open your terminal, and type 'top' and press enter. Cut and paste the results here... it will look something like this:
xxxxxxxxx-macbook:~ xxxxxxxx$ tops
tops [-help] [-dont] [-semiverbose] [-verbose] [-nocontext] [-nofileinfo]
(-scriptfile script_name) |
(find <search_pattern>
[where (<symbol>...) isOneOf {(<match>...)...}] ...) |
(replace <search_pattern> with <replacement_pattern> | same
[where (<symbol>...) isOneOf {(<match>...)...}]...
[within (<symbol>) {...}]...
[error <message>]
[warning <message>]) |
(replacemethod <selector> with <new_selector>
{ [replace <symbol> with <symbol_replacement>]... }
[where (<symbol>...) isOneOf {(<match> ...)...}]...
[within (<symbol>) {...}]...
[error <message>]
[warning <message>])
[-classfile classfile]
[filename ...]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Processes: 75 total, 4 running, 71 sleeping, 379 threads 12:43:05
Load Avg: 0.34, 0.76, 0.61 CPU usage: 6.84% user, 11.87% sys, 81.27% idle
SharedLibs: 60M resident, 2684K data, 4064K linkedit.
MemRegions: 12178 total, 341M resident, 16M private, 220M shared.
PhysMem: 1197M wired, 560M active, 253M inactive, 2010M used, 37M free.
VM: 54G vsize, 436M framework vsize, 2595347(16) pageins, 258752(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 8215017/4387M in, 5472867/223M out.
Disks: 1271504/18G read, 966555/21G written.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MREG RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE
4456 top 8.7 00:00.48 1/1 0 22 35 696K 288K 1208K
4452 bash 0.0 00:00.03 1 0 17 26 304K 268K 980K
4451 login 0.0 00:00.03 1 0 20 55 284K 268K 988K
4449 Terminal 3.3 00:00.51 6 2 108+ 122+ 2128K+ 8172K 6872K+
4447 quicklookd 0.0 00:00.29 6 2 88 123 6008K 4592K 8216K
4446 blued 0.0 00:00.15 2 1 49 49 868K 1900K 2352K
4399 prl_vm_app 5.1 03:32.20 30/2 1 191 246 62M+ 26M- 268M
4397 mdworker 0.0 00:00.29 3 1 50 69 720K 6552K 2696K
4393 mdworker 0.0 00:00.84 3 1 67 103 4060K 4900K 9448K
4390 prl_client_a 2.1 00:21.10 14 1 197 416 12M+ 43M 45M
4383 cupsd 0.0 00:00.05 3 1 35 58 216K 272K 880K
4355 Mail 0.0 00:13.89 7 2 250 334 7444K 21M 28M
4216 Safari 4.9 05:59.77 13 2 291 2210 86M+ 19M 154M+
3758 activitymoni 5.5 07:02.87 1/1 0 38+ 39+ 776K+ 268K 105
