Spikes of extreme lag (from Finder?)

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I hate to post such a generic question but I have been unable to find a good solution. I am a computer programmer and use my Mac very intensively. This is the 2nd MBP I have owned and in both cases after about a year the machine started to encounter problems.

In general everything is great, but once the machine has been on for 2 days or so now I start to experience frequent and extreme spikes in lag. I believe the lag is from Finder (based upon the % process in the activity monitor and the fact that the lag seems to be system-wide rather than app specific). The spikes are a bit odd - I can generally continue to switch between apps and spaces and so on, but most apps become nearly unresponsive.

I do use TotalFinder, but have used it for a long time. I cannot think of anything in particular that would have led to this and simply rolling back my machine is not really an option for me. I have at least 2GB of space free on my main HD (SSD) at all times. I generally run a fair number of apps (Chrome, Firefox, iTunes, XCode, Skype and maybe a couple others in addition to extensions like Dropbox, Evernote, etc).

My machine is a 1 year old MBP 17" with a 2.66 Ghz Core i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 70GB SSD HD on OSX 10.6.7.

Thanks very much for any suggestions.
 
I'll take a guess here, but I'm almost certain others will tell you the same,
You do not have enough free disk space.
Rule of thumb is 10GB as a minimum, more is better.
Unless you absolutly need the newer "safe sleep"mode you can revert back to the original sleep system and save yourself 8GB now being reserved for a sleep image.

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to check which mode is active, in a Terminal window type the following...
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
The results are...
0= original sleep mode
1= new (save to disk style)
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to change mode 0= old style sleep 3= new (save to disk style)
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
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to remove sleep disk image
cd /var/vm
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
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Thanks! I suppose I won't know if it worked for a few days, but the sleep image has been something I had been wondering about anyway being that I only have a 70GB SSD ;)
 
Hm. Unfortunately this did not help my problem. My Mac is still slowing down to be excruciatingly slow after just a day or two of being on...
 
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