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<blockquote data-quote="MoltenLava" data-source="post: 40493"><p>You can try million of maintenance tasks that has nothing to do with affecting performance, or you can try to diagnose your system.</p><p></p><p>When your computer feels sluggish, bring up a terminal window, and run top. 99% of all the performance problems are caused by CPU (some rogue process using up too much CPU) and memory (too many apps running at the same time). Take a look at the CPU usage of various processes. Do you see any process unusually hogging CPU time? Do you have any free memory or all the memory is used by the application? Instead of running top, you can also use the Activity Monitor, or one of those various confabulator widgets that display real time system resource usage, and that could be quite helpful when diagnosing this kind of perf problems. I always run a small confabulator widget that shows the current CPU hogger, so I know what's going on at a quick glance.</p><p></p><p>If you find anything unusual, you can fix it. If you are out of memory, you should reduce the number applications that you run at the same time. Or maybe there are other background processes that use up resources. If you see unusual CPU activity on apps that you have open all the time, whether it's Safari, iTune, Mail, or whatnot, you can investigate why it's using all those CPU.</p><p></p><p>If everything looks normal, then your computer is not really running slower than when you first bought it. Your perception has changed because of your exposure to other (possibly faster) computers. The only cure for this is to get a new computer. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoltenLava, post: 40493"] You can try million of maintenance tasks that has nothing to do with affecting performance, or you can try to diagnose your system. When your computer feels sluggish, bring up a terminal window, and run top. 99% of all the performance problems are caused by CPU (some rogue process using up too much CPU) and memory (too many apps running at the same time). Take a look at the CPU usage of various processes. Do you see any process unusually hogging CPU time? Do you have any free memory or all the memory is used by the application? Instead of running top, you can also use the Activity Monitor, or one of those various confabulator widgets that display real time system resource usage, and that could be quite helpful when diagnosing this kind of perf problems. I always run a small confabulator widget that shows the current CPU hogger, so I know what's going on at a quick glance. If you find anything unusual, you can fix it. If you are out of memory, you should reduce the number applications that you run at the same time. Or maybe there are other background processes that use up resources. If you see unusual CPU activity on apps that you have open all the time, whether it's Safari, iTune, Mail, or whatnot, you can investigate why it's using all those CPU. If everything looks normal, then your computer is not really running slower than when you first bought it. Your perception has changed because of your exposure to other (possibly faster) computers. The only cure for this is to get a new computer. ;) [/QUOTE]
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