I have an iMac running OSX 10.12.6 Sierra and Parallels 10.4.0 (29337) to run a Windows 7 Pro VM. The iMax has a 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM. Parallels (or the VM, I am not sure which) is allocated 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM.
From time to time the iMac grinds to a halt and it's due to...