El Capitan VERY slow early 2009 iMac 2 GB RAM

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  It happens about any application (especially chromium, but also iMovie, TextEdit, Messenger, Finder, etc.). It will work correctly for 30-60 seconds give the rotation for 30 seconds beach ball, then works again then beach ball.

  EtreCheck version: 3.0.3 (307)

  Report generated 2016-09-15 20:31:59

  Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

  Duration 76:03

  Performance: Poor

  Click the [Support] links to help with non-Apple products.

  Click [details] for more information on this line.

  Problem: Beachballing

  Hardware Information: ⓘ

  MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2012)

  [Data sheet] - [User Guide] - [warranty & Service]

  MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9, 2

  1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 strands

  4 GB of RAM expandable - [Instructions]

  BANK 0/DIMM0

  OK 2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

  BANK 1/DIMM0

  OK 2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

  Bluetooth: Good - transfer/Airdrop2 taken in charge

  Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

  Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 1091

  Video information: ⓘ

  Graphics Intel HD 4000

  Color LCD 1280 x 800

  Software: ⓘ

  OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15-1004) - time since started: about 2 days

  Disc information: ⓘ

  TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0: (500,11 GB) (rotation)

  EFI (disk0s1) < not mounted >: 210 MB

  Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499,25 (Go 421,85 free)

  Recovery HD (disk0s3) < not mounted > [recovery]: 650 MB

  HL-DT-ST DVD - RW GS31N disk1: (8.42 GB))

  USB information: ⓘ

  Apple Inc. FaceTime HD camera (built-in)

  Apple Inc. Apple keyboard / Trackpad

  Computer, Inc. Apple IR receiver.

  Apple Inc. BRCM20702 hub.

  Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB host controller.

  Lightning information: ⓘ

  Apple Inc. Thunderbolt_bus.

  Guardian: ⓘ

  Mac App Store and identified developers

  Kernel extensions: ⓘ

  / Library/Extensions

  com [loading]. Apowersoft.driver.AudioDevice (1.6.7 - SDK 10.11 - 2016-09-13) [Support]

  Launch system officers: ⓘ

  [no charge] 7 tasks Apple

  tasks of Apple 155 [loading]

  tasks of Apple 68 [performance]

  [killed] 8 tasks of Apple

  8 killed process lack of RAM

  Launch system demons: ⓘ

  [no charge] 48 Apple jobs

  [loading] 158 jobs Apple

  [running] Apple 73 jobs

  [killed] 12 tasks of Apple

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  User launch officers: ⓘ

  [loading] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-07-11) [Support]

  Plug-ins Internet: ⓘ

  Default browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-07-18)

  QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-07-18)

  3rd party preference panes: ⓘ

  None

  Time Machine: ⓘ

  Time Machine not configured!

  Top of page process CPU: ⓘ

  top of 7%

  iMovie 3%

  1% kernel_task

  1% Google Chrome

  0% Dropbox

  Top of page process of memory: ⓘ

  1.30 GB Google Chrome Helper (13)

  516 MB kernel_task

  IMovie 193 MB

  Google Chrome 172MO

  Mdworker (9) 123 MB

  Virtual memory information: ⓘ

  33 MB free RAM

  3.96 GB used RAM (741 MB cache)

  4 MB Swap used

  Diagnostic information: ⓘ

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