On Feb 2, 2015, at 10:37 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> <sad story of a couple of slow computers> John, Set your Activity Monitor to show the percentages of the CPU usage (as Lee suggested), with the most at the top. Your top one (and sometimes the one below it, too) will be the culprit. Select the item and hit the Quit Process button. That should relieve it for a while, if not a long while. Let us know what that item is called and we can help you with it. Sometimes just killing it or restarting the computer will help and sometimes it means deleting a file here or there in your system. The "backupd" task using a lot of memory is your Time Machine struggling with something. Sometimes turning TM off and on will fix that. Other times it requires starting over with a new Time Machine store. There can also be some piece of software that is crashing because it is not Yosemite compatible--a common occurrence in upgrades. Open up the console and see what might be crashing in there. If you find a particular item that looks like it is happening way too many times, Google it to see what the "experts" say about what to do about it. [1] On your MBP, it looks like Dropbox was busy when you made that screen shot. That is not uncommon, Dropbox works really hard for me. The multiple "pluginkit" items are part of dropbox as well (on Yosemite). As soon as it's done with syncing, those should drop off. If you do not use Dropbox that much I'd say a reinstall of it might be in order to get it to behave. That is if you've already installed all the updates. Others have companied about slowness with Dropbox and Yosemite, so that might be part of your issue. Jonathan [1] Google: "Outsourcing Your Brain Since 1998!" (tm) -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker Certified Developer (9 thru 13) FileMaker Business Alliance Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137
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