2010 MBP 13" running slow..

[ohla313]

Hi I have a 2.66 13" MBP I bought in June 2010. My concern is that it is running a little slow and startup a bit laggy. One strange feature is that iTunes keeps asking to accept incoming connections, MacFuse is installed (I searched it but am ), and hard drive space is disappearing randomly at times.

Does anyone know how I can speed up my MBP??

Thank you!

 

[aeboi]

you can look at the processes to see what's bogging down your resources

you can use use a program like cleanmymac to see if that helps

you can strap it to a rocket ship

 

[spinnerlys]

How much free HDD storage capacity do you have left?
MacFuse is part of the NTFS-3G package, to write to NTFS formatted volumes. A www search will yield some results.

Take a look at DiskInventory X, OmniDiskSweeper or GrandPerspective to see where your HDD space went to.

Have a look at Activity Monitor ( Applications / Utilities / ) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.

image below uses sorting by CPU as an example

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
  
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)
  

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
  
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
  
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
  

 

[Transporteur]

One strange feature is that iTunes keeps asking to accept incoming connections

I've got no clue what that might cause.

...and hard drive space is disappearing randomly at times.

That might well be the systems swap files. During a week of work that can be up to several gigabytes of space. But don't worry, those files don't stay on the drive forever, a restart deletes them.

 

[ohla313]

How much free HDD storage capacity do you have left?

I have a 320 GB hard drive and currently use 200GB with 120 free..But what's strange is that I only used 120-140 and don't know what I did that got me that excess..and RAM is very low right now so probably gonna do a restart.

thanks!

 

[racedude]

I'd run a hardware diagnostic if I were you if you're really having issues. My mom called me and said that her iMac was running extremely slow. After running Onyx and other tools with no improvement, I ran a hardware diagnostic. It turns out her harddrive is going bad, and so we have an apple on-site technician coming to replace it for her tomorrow. I honestly wouldn't of even thought the harddrive going bad would be the cause, but might as well run it just incase. (Boot off your Applications CD included with your mac to run it.)

 

[rjt1000]

One strange feature is that iTunes keeps asking to accept incoming connections

several possible solutions to try in these search results:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=itunes+accept+incoming+connections