Slowdowns after a couple minutes of uptime?

[escherize]

Hello,

I have a 13 inch early 2011 mbp. It used to run alot smoother but performance has started degrading quite noticeably lately. It runs smooth and fast for about 5 or 10 minutes after a reboot, but son after will start to act very slow. I've seen other mbps and even mbs that don't scroll as choppy as mine, when mine has an i7...


I tried resetting the system managment controller (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964), but that has been no help. Would reinstalling OSX help? I mean this computer should be really fast, But it can stutter playing 720p youtube videos when nothing but the browser is open...

 

[gr8tfly]

It sounds like there is some other process running in the background.

Open Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities/), set it to show "All Processes", and look through the list to see what else might be using CPU resources.

 

[escherize]

So, it's sort of slow right now. Not terrible, but not fresh.

Here's what my activity monitor looks like: (http://cl.ly/0R1G3e1G0E3M0h110C1w)


Any tips about what I should do?

 

[negativzero]

Nothing wrong with it now but I would suggest ditching chrome for safari as it's faster and uses less resources.

The other thing you can do is download onyx and do a full system cleanup from it.