Lee, Jonathan, Russ…..
Thanks to you Lee and Jonathan, the culprit was Dropbox!!! The two older machines are still not speed demons but boy they are at least usable. I don’t know the problem but even on the MacPro with 12 processors Dropbox is taking more CPU than any other program by a wide margin and on the Macbook Pro and Mini the CPU was completely seized by Dropbox under Yosemite. So, I have deleted DropBox, don’t really need it for my use as iCloud is now open to storing and or moving files. I thank you folks for your help ever so much. John > On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:04 AM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2015, at 10:37 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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