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    System wide slowness after login

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Robgunn, Feb 17, 2008.

  1. Robgunn

    Robgunn Notebook Evangelist

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    Woah, this is weird. After I logged in this morning I couldn't help but notice the whole system was afflicted with bad performance. Scrolling wasn't smooth, the dock was slow to react when I ran my mouse over it. There was almost like a 500msec delay. Even typing in text boxes was slow.

    So I checked spotlight, it wasn't indexing. I checked activity monitor and showed all processes and none of them were consuming alarming amounts of CPU cycles. Hard drive activity was zero. So what the hell is going on?

    I logged back out and in again and everything was fine again.

    Anyone else have this happen?

    btw, running 10.5.2.
     
    Robgunn, Feb 17, 2008
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  2. Modly

    Modly Warranty Voider

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    It's because you didn't have that conversation with your computer...
    "Just say no to drugs!"

    It had a late night partying, and was either hung over or high...

    Actually, I don't know what happened, but I figured some humour could be of use.
     
    Modly, Feb 17, 2008
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  3. Xander

    Xander Paranoid Android

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    If this ever happens again just press Control-Option-Command-Eject.
     
    Xander, Feb 17, 2008
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