Computer is slowing down

[Jonesy]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 05:30:20 -0700, compdoc wrote:
>> In the last year, the system seems to have been slowing down.
>
> Don't overlook problems with your hard drive. Read SMART to know if the
> drive is developing bad sectors. It would also be interesting to know what
> read speeds you get by benchmarking the drive with Disk Utility. It might be
> dangerous to perform a write bench test, so don't do that.
>
> Also, open the System Monitor app and see what processes are running. You
> can sort the list by CPU and RAM usage. Does anything stand out?

As well, open up the _case_ , and see how thick the dust bunnies are.
Your MB may not be too old and a throttling down of the CPU speed may 
be happening due to overheating of the CPU.

You have run `top`, haven't you?

Jonesy