macbook slows every 2.5 hours

[kevinwaynedavis]

So I have a macbook that works perfectly for exactly 2.4 hours. At a little over 2.5 hours it slows to the point of being worthless, like clockwork. Restarting solves the problem, until it slows again 2.5 hours later.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
Running macOS Sierra 10.12.6
8 mb RAM
250 GB Drive
110 GB available

Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

 

[xnatex]

Check out Activity Monitor (an app that comes with macOS) and see what's running. Take a look at the CPU and Memory tabs to see if anything is using a lot. One thing worth noting about the CPU tab, you have 100% CPU available per core. So if you have a quad core, you have 400% CPU available in the "% CPU" column.

If you have a hard time getting that to load (because everything is crazy slow at the time), open up a terminal and run the "top" command to see what's using the most resources.