Wow. Thank you, all of you. Great responses. I am so impressed with the Mac community - they take of each other.
The imac is 6 months old and has a processor of 2.93 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory of 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
In Activity Monitor "all processes", it shows:
- 7 processes running. Maximum CPU for any process is 4% and the total for all is about 7%.
- Free: 2.6 GB
- Wired: 682 MB
- Active: 714
- Inactive: 384
- Used 1.75 GB
- VM: 117 GB
- Page in: 179 MB
- Page outs: 0
- Swap: 0
I noticed that while waiting for the browser, Firefox 3.5.6 shows "stopped" in the lower left corner of the browser and the page load pauses longer before the page is displayed. I don't recall seeing that before SL was installed.
I clicked Spotlight and it did not show anything about indexing. But, hopefully that is done.
I will try the Disk Utility, "Repair Permissions" command and the "Console" app as well. I also have SL on a new macbook pro (12/30/09). I'm going to set up the macbook pro, imac and my p.c. together and, with a stopwatch LOL, I'm going to check FW and performances.