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new iMAc Performance Issues? Try THIS

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DrNelly

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Jun 13, 2008
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To all those suffering from performance issues with safari, flash and overall sluggishness of the system try to turn off Airport and turn it on again.

After you turn Airport off the CPU (actually the core that goes through the roof) goes back to normal, and the system is smooth and buttery overall again.

In my case CPU usage went from 68 to 1.25!! right after Airport was turned off.

Please give it a try and report here if that works for you guys.
 
Dont Hurt Me

Dont Hurt Me

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Dec 21, 2002
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I also have noticed some crazziness with airport lagging the system, almost like its looking for newtworks endlessly and turned it off and back on and noticed a big change. Snow leopard early bugs i guess. Everything was bogging down till i messed with airport.
 
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Leon575

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Jul 12, 2009
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Thanks for the tip.
My iMac will be placed right next to my router anyway... so I might just turn AirPort OFF and connect to internet via cable.
 
sharkync

sharkync

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Aug 8, 2009
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Raleigh
Awesome info - this thread needs to be kept at the top so people can try this and report back.

GOOD JOB!
 
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JAWWC

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Jun 1, 2008
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Great tip for a temporary solution! Just used ethernet instead.

Thanks!
 
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DrNelly

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Jun 13, 2008
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fr4c said:
Tried it, but the issues comes back again after a few hours of use.
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Yeah the problem comes back because there is a memory leak coming from Airport drivers. I think it would be interesting to know if there are other actors involved in this issue, read graphic drivers, hard drive issues, etc.. it might be something else acting up besides Airport.

Until Apple pushes an update, if your mac becomes a turtle this tip will put that turtle on steroids :)
 
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rmg007

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Aug 28, 2009
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DrNelly said:
Yeah the problem comes back because there is a memory leak coming from Airport drivers. I think it would be interesting to know if there are other actors involved in this issue, read graphic drivers, hard drive issues, etc.. it might be something else acting up besides Airport.

Until Apple pushes an update, if your mac becomes a turtle this tip will put that turtle on steroids :)
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Does the problem come back even if you leave airport off?
 
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DrNelly

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Jun 13, 2008
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rmg007 said:
Does the problem come back even if you leave airport off?
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I can't test that with safari because I'm far from my router, but when I do other offline work no lag whatsoever, regardless of the application. So that's a good sign...
 
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jmonfire

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Oct 28, 2009
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10.6.2

You guys are just gonna have to wait for SL update 10.6.2
which I think will in many ways, fix most of issues posted in the forum.
 
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ktolani

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Aug 5, 2008
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i believe you really dont have to go upto turning yr airport off and back on. just click on the airport, and let the wireless list refresh with the circle thing rotating around on the top, once its done refreshing the network lists the circle will dissapear and the sluginesh nd lags goes away too. (just a simpler/faster way for the temporary fix rather than turning off and on)
 
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kelf

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Oct 25, 2009
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can we possibly just turn off the "auto search" by some tweaking?...i mean im no expert on this front, but i cud do tht on my PC...so why not on the mac?
 
sharkync

sharkync

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Aug 8, 2009
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Raleigh
jmonfire said:
You guys are just gonna have to wait for SL update 10.6.2
which I think will in many ways, fix most of issues posted in the forum.
Click to expand...

I hope you're right. But given past performance with 6.0 and 6.1 - I'm not so sure.

We'll just have to wait and see.
 
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