Hi experts,
My MBP is running Mavericks, and I have to say that it's been running horribly slow since Mountain Lion. My MAC specifications are:
I was working on Pages, and tried to resize a group of icons, and the application froze for more than 15 min. When I check the Activity Monitor (attached), I saw that Pages is using more than 100% of CPU (so it said), which I don't think made sense.
What I don't understand is at the bottom of the list, it says that the CPU load is being used by the System (1.85%), User (26.46%), and leftover Idle (71.69%). So in the upper list, if the process Pages is owned by the user (me = "mufti") and using 105.3% of CPU, how come it only shows that the User CPU load below is only 26.46%?
Furthermore, if I have Idle CPU resource of 71.69%, I would really like to use that resource for my applications (the User). Is that even possible?
Any insight on this would be very valuable.
p/s. I've tried all of the "Basic OSX/Mac Troubleshooting" tips in the sticky thread without any much success in speeding up my machine.
Thanks,
Mufti
My MBP is running Mavericks, and I have to say that it's been running horribly slow since Mountain Lion. My MAC specifications are:
- 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
- 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
- 750GB HDD Toshiba 5400RPM SATA
I was working on Pages, and tried to resize a group of icons, and the application froze for more than 15 min. When I check the Activity Monitor (attached), I saw that Pages is using more than 100% of CPU (so it said), which I don't think made sense.
What I don't understand is at the bottom of the list, it says that the CPU load is being used by the System (1.85%), User (26.46%), and leftover Idle (71.69%). So in the upper list, if the process Pages is owned by the user (me = "mufti") and using 105.3% of CPU, how come it only shows that the User CPU load below is only 26.46%?
Furthermore, if I have Idle CPU resource of 71.69%, I would really like to use that resource for my applications (the User). Is that even possible?
Any insight on this would be very valuable.
p/s. I've tried all of the "Basic OSX/Mac Troubleshooting" tips in the sticky thread without any much success in speeding up my machine.
Thanks,
Mufti