hi lately my imac 12,1 got very slow and suddenly there `are all of this running constantly since startup and restarting if i try to quit any of them from Activity Monitor
should be running? in case how to stop this? because i can barely use Ableton lately
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13
I'm going to guess which Mac this is: one of the 8 GB hard disk drive Mac models.
If so: Why is my hard disk drive iMac so slow? - Apple Community
Removing Clean My Mac can potentially reduce activity, as can removing the Google apps.
But if this is one of the 8 GB / hard disk models as I might suspect, your least-bad upgrade short of a newer (used, refurb) or new Mac is to an external SSD. Unfortunately for this approach, the only fast external I/O connection you have here is Thunderbolt, as the iMac 2011 models had USB 2. Thunderbolt storage is more expensive. Links to how this works included in the above "Why..." tip.
Well, removing CleanMyMac should help.
We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…
Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
lucapms wrote:
no i have 1TB HDD and 120GB external SSD which is the startup disk
Yes, that’s a hard disk, and it’s very slow. And you’re already using the SSD as a work-around for that.
The other constraint here tends to be the 8 GB memory configuration that a lot of these iMac models had.
Amazing answer is yes! :(
but until few days ago the werent running and it was faster can somebody help me to figure out why it became so slow?
no i have 1TB HDD and 120GB external SSD which is the startup disk
i have 12GB ram
lucapms wrote:
i have 12GB ram
Better, still not great.
should all of this being constantly running?
