unknown OS problem.

[DKY]

hi all,

recently my mac OS seems to be having difficulty's, everything seems to be running fine except for the fact all of a sudden it seems to be having a difficult time running processes and tends to be reallt slow about it from time to time, and is running in higher temp than it used to (55 to 65 instead of 45 to 50 degrees C) and tends to fluctuate a lot.

ive been using "smcfancontrol" for quite some time to manage my fan and has been since then running on 6000rpm to keep it as low as possible (soo temp tends to be higher when running normally)

seems to me that there might be some sort of invisible processes running in the background i dont know of.

now is my question: are there more people with this kind of problem and how did they solve it, any other ideas, opinions, diagnostics about this problem.
and is there a way to check background processes and if there is a way/program to scan the OS for abnormality's?

i'm currently running:
mac OSX
version: 10.6.6

on a:
white macbook 6,1
intel dual core 2,26GHz
4 gigs memory

tnx in advance

 

[pigoo3]

hi all,

recently my mac OS seems to be having difficulty's, everything seems to be running fine except for the fact all of a sudden it seems to be having a difficult time running processes and tends to be reallt slow about it from time to time, and is running in higher temp than it used to (55 to 65 instead of 45 to 50 degrees C) and tends to fluctuate a lot.

First let me mention that this problem most likely has nothing to do with your Mac's temp's. The temp's you mentioned are VERY normal. Many folks report temps in the 70's & even 80's°C...so 55-65°C is no biggie.

seems to me that there might be some sort of invisible processes running in the background i dont know of.

and is there a way to check background processes and if there is a way/program to scan the OS for abnormality's?

This is much more likely. Go to your Applications Folder > Utilities Folder...and open Activity monitor. Look thru the list & see if there are any programs that you don't recognize that are "sucking up" a lot of system resources.

Hopefully this helps,

- Nick

 

[DKY]

First let me mention that this problem most likely has nothing to do with your Mac's temp's. The temp's you mentioned are VERY normal. Many folks report temps in the 70's & even 80's°C...so 55-65°C is no biggie.



This is much more likely. Go to your Applications Folder > Utilities Folder...and open Activity monitor. Look thru the list & see if there are any programs that you don't recognize that are "sucking up" a lot of system resources.

Hopefully this helps,

- Nick

tnx for your quick reply,

as i find those "normal" 55 to 65 degrees a bit too high i'm using smsc fancontrol and set the minimum rpm from 3500 to 4500, with that speed 45 to 50 degrees is normal for my machine and 55 to 65 is a significant change, i'm not worried about the temp itself more about the 10 to 20 degree change all of a sudden.

i did another reboot and all is normal right now but that doesnt say it wont come back, so tnx for your advice ill keep my processes in sight to see if anything changes.

at least i've learned something

 

[McBie]

One more tip if I may ....
Get rid of SmcFantrol .... there is no need to second guess the Apple engineers and manually control the fans.

My 2 cents.
Cheers ... McBie

 

[macdadad]

My 2 cents worth DKY, if you're connected to the internet while working (which I assume 99% of computer users do) sometimes software updates from your installed app's maker (e.i. Apple & Adobe etc...) can do that while they're reading your system. Also some cookies installed by your browser tend to do this too. They run in the background so you're not aware of it until your system slows down. Activity monitor can reveal this.

maybe only 1cent worth?