Trying to remotely help a friend troubleshoot what’s causing his 2017 iMac on Ventura to slow down and pin CPU cycles to 100% randomly. It’s a beefy machine for its time, i7, 32gb RAM, 8gb Radeon card.
He recently had his HDD fail and had someone in his town swap in an SSD so of course he expected faster performance but he’s randomly hitting these slow downs a few weeks post repair.
He says he sometimes comes into his shop (he’s a mechanic) and the machine is full fans, or he’ll hear it kick on full fans while he’s working.
I had him open activity monitor and there were a few random sustained CPU spikes today but of course he hasn’t been paying close attention to the screen since he’s got work to do in the shop, hence why I’m asking to see if anyone knows if there is historical logging that shows what apps were taking up CPU cycles at a given time.
Thanks
He recently had his HDD fail and had someone in his town swap in an SSD so of course he expected faster performance but he’s randomly hitting these slow downs a few weeks post repair.
He says he sometimes comes into his shop (he’s a mechanic) and the machine is full fans, or he’ll hear it kick on full fans while he’s working.
I had him open activity monitor and there were a few random sustained CPU spikes today but of course he hasn’t been paying close attention to the screen since he’s got work to do in the shop, hence why I’m asking to see if anyone knows if there is historical logging that shows what apps were taking up CPU cycles at a given time.
Thanks