[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Mike Bonner]

Oops, meant page-outs.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll second the heat check.  If your mini is like mine it doesn't take
> much to push it up into the area of cpu throttling. This is a 2011 model
> and currently I have it on a laptop cooler with the bottom of the case
> nudged open.  Made a huge difference. Also installed fanspeed and adjusted
> parameters so that  the fan ramps up earlier and harder.
>
> Also, you mentioned using activity monitor to check cpu usage, have you
> checked ram usage? Large amounts of swapping can cause beach ball behavior.
> Look to see how may page ins have occurred as well as which processes are
> eating the most mem. THough if no page-ins have occurred, swapping isn't
> the problem. (page outs don't matter, that just indicates things being
> shoved into memory)
>
> Finally, yep, could be a drive flaking out. Which would be even more
> obvious when combined with page-ins.
>