OpenClaw is super slow on my MacMini

[buoyant fiber]

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[earnest ravine]

Is it an Apple issue?

[paper bolt]

Usually not an “Apple issue” in the sense of “Mac minis can’t run OpenClaw” — a Mac mini is generally a great Gateway host. When things feel super slow, it’s almost always one of:

1. Model/provider latency or rate limiting (requests queueing, retries, fallbacks)
2. Gateway not actually healthy / stuck, so every turn waits on something
3. Slow tool execution path (especially if you’re hitting Docker/sandboxed exec or browser automation)

To narrow it down fast, can you paste the output of:

openclaw --version
openclaw status --all
openclaw models status

( status --all is designed to be shareable; it redacts tokens.)

And one quick “what does slow mean” question: