icemakk

I find at times my browser will pause or stall while typing or be unresponsive to mouse clicks. Is there a malware that could be causing this? Remedies?
Anyone else experience this?
Running
OS 10.7.4
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB ram
on a Macbook

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fjnmusic

Low memory on your hard drive? That'll do it for me nine times out of ten.

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icemakk

Running a 320GB HD with 61GB left. Time to clear some stuff out?

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digitddog

61 GBs should be plenty. (At this very minute, I'm down to 2.99 GB. That's definitely time to clear stuff out!)

Are there particular times (specific apps running, particular activities that trigger the problem, etc.) when the problem is worse than others? You might try running Activity Monitor and see which apps are hogging all your resources (CPU or RAM) when things slow down.

The G3 Man

Im having a similar problem on a 2.4ghz Early-08 MacBook.

160gb hd
3gb ram.

Just happens randomly. Doesn't happen in Snow Leopard for me.

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icemakk

Thanks Digitdog, I'll try the activity monitor next time it starts to sloth out again.

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pm-r

Activity Monitor is an excellent tool to see what the Mac is up to and what processes are running, memory usage and CPU load etc.

I keep it in my Dock and probably open it up at least six times a day just to see what's happening.

A marvellous helpful tool to use.

And maybe add Console to the dock as well, and see what or any surplus logs for some things that can get out of control with excessive entries.

icemakk

I too put Activity Monitor in the dock. So far nothing seems to be raping my memory. Going to try Console next

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I guess I need to know how to read the Console messages

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CanadaRAM

To answer the first question, it is very unlikely to be malware on your Mac.
Check this article for info on the current malware that is out there, and checking / removal instructions
“Flashback”, Java trojans, “SabPub”, “LuckyCat” and “Tibet” Microsoft Office trojans target Mac OSX | CanadaRAM: Memory and Computer Q&A

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