Hi, Just wanted to add a brief description of my recent experience with performance problems: I have had pretty sluggish performance for a while on my macbook pro 2020. Not sure exactly when it started, but has been enough to keep me from using my system much. I had some time Friday evening so thought I would investigate. 1. I opened activity monitor and found that powerd was consuming something like 105% of my CPU (Note I had to set the refresh interval on the View menu to the slowest interval to use the app). Also not sure how you can consume more than 100% but... 2. After some googling, I opened terminal and typed: pmset -g sched And found a couple of pending tasks. These looked like perhaps pending email sends? Not sure exactly. 3. I then did sudo pmset schedule cancelall
All I can say is wow, a huge performance boost. I have checked a couple of times since and no longer see powerd in the top processes. No idea if this applies to anyone else, just my experience. Brett ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 29th, 2022 at 7:53 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > A couple things of note. You’ve said that you’re running a Mac mini. YOu’ve > also mentioned that you have a 1 TB drive in it. > > • is this a spinning HD or an SSD? A spinning HD is likely a 5400 RPM drive > which has rather slow disk access for today’s MacOS. This can result in the > “busy”, or “not responding” announcements. > • how much RAM in the Mini? Anything less than 8 GB will get this sort of > response quite often. Especially if you’re running with a spinner. > • what model year of Min is it? The older Minis, although they will run > Monterey, do not run it particularly fast and will often result in these > sorts of announcements. > • an anti-virus app constantly running in the background will definitely > negatively affect performance of a Mac mini. > > Depending on your answers to these items, will help to explain whether these > announcements are normal, or that there’s something amiss with your Mac. > > Later… > > > On Aug 29, 2022, at 06:52, Bill Gallik wfgal...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > First and foremost, I want to say “Thanks” to each of the responses to my > > original inquiry. I appreciate the good intentions of all concerned. > > > > However, none of the points raised factor in this problem. I typically have > > only 3 or 4 apps running at any given time; Finder, E-Mail, Checkbook Pro > > and Safari. Very rarely do I ever run more apps than the previously > > mentioned four apps. > > > > As for memory, I have a 1 Terabyte hard drive with hardly more than 20% of > > the available disk space used. > > > > I only turn off this Mac when severe weather is forecast so if routine disk > > maintenance is being done, it isn’t degraded by a “power off” condition. > > > > In fact, while replying to this thread I had that dreaded “E-Mail is not > > responding” message. > > > > And, oh yes, I do have anti-virus running in the background all the time. I > > realize that might account for some performance drag, but this “Application > > is not responding” message is occurring much too often. > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * > > - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin > > - "You must be the change you want to see in the world." > > - Mahatma Gandhi > > > > -- > > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > > Visionaries list. > > > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners > > or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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