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<blockquote data-quote="bonds1972" data-source="post: 1577071" data-attributes="member: 324198"><p>Hi experts,</p><p></p><p>My MBP is running Mavericks, and I have to say that it's been running horribly slow since Mountain Lion. My MAC specifications are:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2.8 GHz Intel Core i7</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">8GB 1333 MHz DDR3</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">750GB HDD Toshiba 5400RPM SATA</li> </ul><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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%?</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>Any insight on this would be very valuable.</p><p></p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>Mufti</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]20378[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bonds1972, post: 1577071, member: 324198"] 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: [LIST] [*]2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 [*]8GB 1333 MHz DDR3 [*]750GB HDD Toshiba 5400RPM SATA [/LIST] 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 [ATTACH=full]20378[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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