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Keyboard and Mouse lag

post #1 of 11
11/17/08 at 11:26pm
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I'm running a Macbook core Duo with 2GB ram. in the last few months my mouse and keyboard lag way behind and the hiding on the dock no longer works.It hides but won't come out to play
I spend a whole lot of time with a beach ball on the screen. Its especially bad in forums like this when you are trying to type a message. Firefox seems to b e the worse. But it does it in Opera,Camino and Safari

Can anyone help

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post #2 of 11
11/18/08 at 12:17am
You're having this during normal use? Have you checked your CPU usage?
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post #3 of 11
11/18/08 at 12:24am
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CPU usage runs from 2-12% at the highest I've seen. it reminds me of the old days of DOS when everything went through the hard drive.
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post #4 of 11
11/19/08 at 9:09pm
Something is chewing through your resources, and in general this seems to be a CPU issue. What programs are you running? What does the activity monitor say is using the most CPU, Memory, or Disk Access?

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post #5 of 11
11/19/08 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by seablade View Post
Something is chewing through your resources, and in general this seems to be a CPU issue. What programs are you running? What does the activity monitor say is using the most CPU, Memory, or Disk Access?

Seablade
Firefox uses about 10-30% of CPU. i'm just running Firefox,Camino and Thunderbird.
Firefox uses about 350K memory 900 virtual, camino 30k and thunderbird 70k
300k memory is wired
900k is active
920k is inactive.

Is there a virus that would cause this. Is there a Mac program that would detect it.
I get some upside down ads in the lower left hand corner once in a while. They go away when you scroll


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post #6 of 11
11/20/08 at 12:09am
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Firefox uses about 10-30% of CPU. i'm just running Firefox,Camino and Thunderbird.
Firefox uses about 350K memory 900 virtual, camino 30k and thunderbird 70k
300k memory is wired
900k is active
920k is inactive.
I am going to assume that where you put K you mean M. Otherwise something is very wrong on your computer, or you have found some magic way to lower memory usage by a factor of 100-1000

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Is there a virus that would cause this. Is there a Mac program that would detect it.
There are no true viruses on Mac OS X. There are however trojans that would have to be downloaded and executed, and likely you would have to put in your password.

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I get some upside down ads in the lower left hand corner once in a while. They go away when you scroll
And this is worrisome. Are you going to some very flash heavy sights or are these appearing at random?

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post #7 of 11
11/20/08 at 11:30am
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]I am going to assume that where you put K you mean M. Otherwise something is very wrong on your computer, or you have found some magic way to lower memory usage by a factor of 100-1000

M would be the correct. I bought the Mac so i souldn't have to be that compter literate


There are no true viruses on Mac OS X. There are however trojans that would have to be downloaded and executed, and likely you would have to put in your password.

Don't do much downloading except for PDF and updates.


And this is worrisome. Are you going to some very flash heavy sights or are these appearing at random?

I pretty much stay in one long time forum and the stock sites and news. But they are very random

I down loaded "superduper" to do a back up but it wants to erase the destiniation before backing up and I have quite a few backup files (spreadsheets,PDF,letters) all ready there. SO another problem So no reinstall just yet. Expose has quit working too!

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post #8 of 11
11/20/08 at 1:48pm
Could you take a screenshot and link to it of these ads you mentioned?

It does sound like you are having problems, and ones that I might not be able to help you pin down very well over a forum. SuperDuper can backup in a variety of ways, so make sure you have the correct method selected, and I believe it can even back up to a DMG if memory serves, which should not need to erase your destination at the very least. Going off memory there for the moment.

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post #9 of 11
11/20/08 at 11:59pm
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Can't get a screen shot! never know when they are going to pop up then when you change they go away. Funny thing is they are for reputable companies. No porn or anything like that so far. And they are upside down. haven't had one for a few days so maybe its just when I go to a certain site. But i haven't tracked it down yet.
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post #10 of 11
11/21/08 at 3:12am
Well I can't say for certain without seeing them whether they are part of a site you might be on. Upside down images have been known to happen when you log into someone else's wireless network and they both know what they are doing and want to screw with you. It involves setting up a squid proxy and a few more tricks but can be fun.

In the meantime though, I might suggest making an appointment at your local genius bar, or with a freind that is very good with computers and unix based OS's if not Mac OS X, and get someone to look hands on at it. There definitly seems to be some processes slowing things down from what you have said, I am not willing to blame outright malicious code yet, but something is definitly up.

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post #11 of 11
11/21/08 at 3:13am
PS Make a full backup of your data before you do anything though, the sooner the better.

Seablade
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