Slow MacBook Pro. WAY too slow.

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Slow MacBook Pro. WAY too slow.

Hello everybody,

I'm getting quite tired of trying to understand why my Mac runs slow by myself, so I'm here to get ideas to solve my problem.

So, my MacBook Pro is slow.

I took some times to be specific:

- startup: it takes around 64 seconds (let's say around a minute) to boot up. I mean, from the moment I press the power button, to the moment I can type my password. [average of 3 consecutive reboots]

- startup: moreover, it takes 28 seconds after I finish typing my password to show the dock (and a few more seconds to be able to launch any app)

- Mail: on a fresh reboot, around 35 seconds to be able to open mail and open the "New message" window

- Safari/Chrome: on a fresh reboot, around 15 seconds to be able to type in the address/search bar

As an amateur photographer, I also make use of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS6, and that kind of application takes AGES to open.

I'm quite a fast user, and tend to do a lot of things at the same time. But I can clearly remember I had no such problems a-year-or-something ago.

Besides this, I'm quite a diligent user: I regularly clean up space and empty the trash, I delete unused applications, I regularly quit (Cmd+Q) applications when I finish using them or when I need a lot of RAM (Photoshop).. I also do the disk utility tricks and restart quite often.

Can you suggest something to speed things up?

At this point, I can't find better explanations than natural hardware obsolescence.

Tech details:

- My MacBook's CPU is a 2,26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

- I have a 160 GB system hard drive with 30 GB free.

- I upgraded my RAM to 4 GB after noticing the system slowing down with Lion.

- I installed a second 250 GB hard disk in place of the CD/DVD drive, using a caddy I found on Amazon

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X Mountain Lion, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM

Posted on Aug 16, 2012 8:13 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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209,541 points

Aug 16, 2012 8:40 AM in response to MV1005

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.

If you have an optical drive, make sure there is no disc in it.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.

Step 1

Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.

Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Post the messages logged during the time something abnormal was happening. That time might be before or after the boot.

For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. If the problem is a system hang or shutdown failure, post the messages from before the boot time, when the system was hanging or was failing to shut down. In either case, please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning or the end of the log extract.

Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.

Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

Step 2

Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Pleasedon’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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Answer 2

MV1005 Author

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Aug 16, 2012 9:10 AM in response to Linc Davis

Dear Linc,

Thank you very much for your reply.

My problem is quite a diffused one. I mean, each startup is slow, and generally the computer as a whole is slow..

However, thanks for pointing out the presence of the console tool, which is something I never used before.

I will now post data relative to the 1st and longest reboot I did to check how long it was actually taking (was 1'18").

Step 1

16/08/12 16:24:36,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1345127076 0
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Sun Jun 24 23:00:16 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.7.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 891537 free pages and 83311 wired pages
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: kext submap [0xffffff7f8073e000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff800073e000]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: zone leak detection enabled
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 74
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto kext started!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Running kernel space in FIPS MODE
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Plist hmac value is    735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Computed hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS integrity POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf10010000
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=2 device=1 cardbus=0)
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 5 devices 18 ]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 23:03:24 Jun 24 2012) initialization complete
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: NVEthernet::start - Built Jun 25 2012 17:20:40
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 64b9e8fffebb201a; max speed s800.
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000000009833 0x5ac 0x8403 0x9833
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 0A49B43E-E625-3A48-8A2F-C7C5E64C12D2
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off 
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: BRCM tunables:
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: pullmode[1] txringsize[  256] reapmin[   32] reapcount[  128]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: highWaterMark: VO[  192]  VI[  192]  BE[  192]  BK[  192]
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
16/08/12 16:25:03,000 kernel[0]: Kernel is LP64
16/08/12 16:24:38,011 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
16/08/12 16:24:38,011 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** Shutdown logging is enabled. ***
16/08/12 16:24:49,801 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.automountd) Unknown key for boolean: NSSupportsSuddenTermination
16/08/12 16:25:02,357 hidd[42]: Posting 'com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus' notifyState=1
16/08/12 16:25:04,000 kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
16/08/12 16:25:13,998 kdc[40]: label: default
16/08/12 16:25:13,998 kdc[40]:           dbname: od:/Local/Default
16/08/12 16:25:13,998 kdc[40]:           mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
16/08/12 16:25:13,998 kdc[40]:           acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
16/08/12 16:25:14,000 kernel[0]: NVEthernet: Ethernet address 64:b9:e8:bb:20:1a
16/08/12 16:25:14,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address 00:26:bb:1b:a4:4f
16/08/12 16:25:14,000 kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete():  adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
16/08/12 16:25:14,000 kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():  
16/08/12 16:25:15,327 mDNSResponder[34]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-379.27 (Jun 20 2012 15:40:55) starting OSXVers 12
16/08/12 16:25:15,359 airportd[69]: _processDLILEvent: en1 attached (down)
16/08/12 16:25:15,365 coreservicesd[65]: FindBestLSSession(), no match for inSessionID 0xfffffffffffffffc auditTokenInfo( uid=0 euid=0 auSessionID=100000 create=false
16/08/12 16:25:15,424 hidd[42]: void __IOHIDLoadBundles(): Loaded 0 HID plugins
16/08/12 16:25:15,604 com.apple.kextd[12]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.
16/08/12 16:25:16,000 kernel[0]: createVirtIf(): ifRole = 1
16/08/12 16:25:16,000 kernel[0]: in func createVirtualInterface ifRole = 1
16/08/12 16:25:16,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init name <p2p0> role 1 this 0xffffff8018ca1c00
16/08/12 16:25:16,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init() <p2p> role 1
16/08/12 16:25:16,000 kernel[0]: Created virtif 0xffffff8018ca1c00 p2p0
16/08/12 16:25:17,164 com.apple.kextd[12]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.
16/08/12 16:25:18,000 kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
16/08/12 16:25:18,000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
16/08/12 16:25:18,000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed
16/08/12 16:25:18,000 kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
16/08/12 16:25:26,406 stackshot[23]: Timed out waiting for IOKit to finish matching.
16/08/12 16:25:27,823 appleeventsd[49]: main: Starting up
16/08/12 16:25:27,987 com.apple.usbmuxd[19]: usbmuxd-268.5 on Apr  5 2012 at 15:33:48, running 64 bit
16/08/12 16:25:28,411 com.apple.kextd[12]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.
16/08/12 16:25:28,661 com.apple.kextd[12]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.
16/08/12 16:25:28,790 com.apple.kextd[12]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.
16/08/12 16:25:29,000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
16/08/12 16:25:29,000 kernel[0]: 00000000  00000020  NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
16/08/12 16:25:29,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 1 (Unspecified).
16/08/12 16:25:29,000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
16/08/12 16:25:29,215 configd[51]: network changed.
16/08/12 16:25:29,217 configd[51]: setting hostname to "[FirstName]-[LastName].local"
16/08/12 16:25:32,550 WindowServer[297]: Server is starting up
16/08/12 16:25:33,107 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100000 created
16/08/12 16:25:33,177 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Entering service
16/08/12 16:25:33,367 configd[51]: network changed: DNS*
16/08/12 16:25:33,367 kdc[40]: WARNING Found KDC certificate (O=System Identity,CN=com.apple.kerberos.kdc)is missing the PK-INIT KDC EKU, this is bad for interoperability.
16/08/12 16:25:33,379 mDNSResponder[34]: D2D_IPC: Loaded
16/08/12 16:25:33,379 mDNSResponder[34]: D2DInitialize succeeded
16/08/12 16:25:33,382 configd[51]: network changed: DNS*
16/08/12 16:25:33,385 mDNSResponder[34]: Adding registration domain 1325608463.members.btmm.icloud.com.
16/08/12 16:25:33,487 apsd[56]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
16/08/12 16:25:33,492 apsd[56]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
16/08/12 16:25:33,480 loginwindow[37]: Login Window Application Started
16/08/12 16:25:33,561 UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: [HandleNetworkInformationChanged:2435] nwi_state_copy returned NULL
16/08/12 16:25:33,576 awacsd[54]: Starting awacsd connectivity-77 (Jun 20 2012 15:40:49)
16/08/12 16:25:33,660 kdc[40]: KDC started
16/08/12 16:25:33,664 systemkeychain[72]: done file: /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.done
16/08/12 16:25:33,704 netbiosd[182]: Unable to start NetBIOS name service: 
16/08/12 16:25:33,727 awacsd[54]: Configuring lazy AWACS client: 1325608463.p03.members.btmm.icloud.com.
16/08/12 16:25:33,824 mds[33]: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
16/08/12 16:25:33,899 locationd[38]: NOTICE,Location icon should now be in state 0
16/08/12 16:25:33,903 awacsd[54]: KV HTTP 0
16/08/12 16:25:33,993 WindowServer[297]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
16/08/12 16:25:33,993 WindowServer[297]: Session 256 released (1 references)
16/08/12 16:25:34,005 WindowServer[297]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
16/08/12 16:25:34,007 WindowServer[297]: init_page_flip: page flip mode is on
16/08/12 16:25:34,031 digest-service[319]: label: default
16/08/12 16:25:34,032 digest-service[319]:           dbname: od:/Local/Default
16/08/12 16:25:34,032 digest-service[319]:           mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
16/08/12 16:25:34,032 digest-service[319]:           acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
16/08/12 16:25:34,034 digest-service[319]: digest-request: uid=0
16/08/12 16:25:34,263 rpcsvchost[323]: sandbox_init: com.apple.msrpc.netlogon.sb succeeded
16/08/12 16:25:34,269 digest-service[319]: digest-request: init request
16/08/12 16:25:34,276 digest-service[319]: digest-request: init return domain: BUILTIN server: [FirstName]-[LastName]
16/08/12 16:25:34,590 WindowServer[297]: mux_initialize: Couldn't find any matches
16/08/12 16:25:34,614 WindowServer[297]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]
16/08/12 16:25:34,614 WindowServer[297]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on
16/08/12 16:25:34,650 WindowServer[297]: WSMachineUsesNewStyleMirroring: false
16/08/12 16:25:34,651 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x04272780: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1280 x 800], 30 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9c9e, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009c9e0000000004272780
16/08/12 16:25:34,651 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
16/08/12 16:25:34,670 WindowServer[297]: Created shield window 0x5 for display 0x04272780
16/08/12 16:25:34,670 WindowServer[297]: Created shield window 0x6 for display 0x003f003d
16/08/12 16:25:34,676 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x04272780: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1280 x 800], 30 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9c9e, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009c9e0000000004272780
16/08/12 16:25:34,676 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (2304, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
16/08/12 16:25:34,680 WindowServer[297]: CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration
16/08/12 16:25:34,680 WindowServer[297]:   Display 0x04272780: MappedDisplay Unit 0; Vendor 0x610 Model 0x9c9e S/N 0 Dimensions 11.26 x 7.05; online enabled built-in, Bounds (0,0)[1280 x 800], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
16/08/12 16:25:34,681 WindowServer[297]:   Display 0x003f003d: MappedDisplay Unit 1; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2304,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: 00:14:6c:6a:a1:c6  MAC AUTH succeeded
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to 00:14:6c:6a:a1:c6
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
16/08/12 16:25:34,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
16/08/12 16:25:35,807 WindowServer[297]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x0102260e, GL mask 0x00000003, accelerator 0x00003a63, unit 0, caps QEX|QGL|MIPMAP, vram 256 MB
16/08/12 16:25:35,810 WindowServer[297]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x0102260e, GL mask 0x00000003, texture units 8, texture max 8192, viewport max {8192, 8192}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
16/08/12 16:25:35,814 loginwindow[37]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
16/08/12 16:25:35,827 WindowServer[297]: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
16/08/12 16:25:35,000 kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
16/08/12 16:25:35,858 configd[51]: network changed: v4(en1+:192.168.0.5) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
16/08/12 16:25:35,883 UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: en1: Not probing '[Home Wifi Name]' (protected network)
16/08/12 16:25:35,887 configd[51]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.0.5) DNS Proxy SMB
16/08/12 16:25:36,373 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:36,374 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:36,671 WindowServer[297]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
16/08/12 16:25:38,107 com.apple.usbmuxd[19]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x7fff790d7180): sending attach for device e0:f8:47:77:40:fb@fe80::e2f8:47ff:fe77:40fb._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
16/08/12 16:25:38,501 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:38,502 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:38,640 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:38,640 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:38,756 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:38,756 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:38,949 usbmuxd[19]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x100781000): IPv4
16/08/12 16:25:39,115 ntpd[320]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
16/08/12 16:25:39,240 airportd[69]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “[Home Wifi Name]”. Bailing on auto-join.
16/08/12 16:25:39,264 airportd[69]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “[Home Wifi Name]”. Bailing on auto-join.
16/08/12 16:25:40,511 WindowServer[297]: Created shield window 0x7 for display 0x04272780
16/08/12 16:25:40,511 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x04272780: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
16/08/12 16:25:40,578 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x04272780: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
16/08/12 16:25:40,579 launchctl[944]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
16/08/12 16:25:40,642 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:40,642 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:40,648 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xprotectupdater[17]) Exited with code: 252
16/08/12 16:25:40,660 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100004 created
16/08/12 16:25:40,828 hidd[42]: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
16/08/12 16:25:40,828 hidd[42]: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
16/08/12 16:25:40,832 airportd[69]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “[Home WiFi Name]”. Bailing on auto-join.
16/08/12 16:25:40,870 loginwindow[37]: Login Window Started Security Agent
16/08/12 16:25:40,906 WindowServer[297]: Display 0x04272780: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
16/08/12 16:25:41,066 SecurityAgent[1005]: This is the first run
16/08/12 16:25:41,067 SecurityAgent[1005]: MacBuddy was run = 0
16/08/12 16:25:41,092 locationd[1007]: NOTICE,Location icon should now be in state 0
16/08/12 16:25:41,260 UserEventAgent[958]: cannot find useragent 1102
16/08/12 16:25:42,501 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:42,501 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:42,755 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:42,755 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:43,000 kernel[0]: utun_ctl_connect: creating interface utun0
16/08/12 16:25:44,644 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:44,644 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:46,000 kernel[0]: TUFS: starting (version 2011.4.23, built Apr 24 2011, 12:19:19)
16/08/12 16:25:46,469 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: Version 2011.4.2 (Aug 30 2011 14:41:12) external FUSE 27
16/08/12 16:25:46,469 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: Mounted /dev/rdisk1s2 (Read-Write, label "HD Dati", NTFS 3.1)
16/08/12 16:25:46,469 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: Cmdline options: recover,sfmconv,streams_interface=openxattr,nfconv,fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,adaptiveuid,adaptivegid
16/08/12 16:25:46,469 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: Mount options: fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/disk1s2,volname=HD Dati
16/08/12 16:25:46,469 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: License: Valid.
16/08/12 16:25:46,470 tuxera_ntfs[1046]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
16/08/12 16:25:46,576 fseventsd[43]: could not open <</Volumes/HD Dati/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
16/08/12 16:25:46,600 fseventsd[43]: log dir: /Volumes/HD Dati/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 2172C02E-74ED-4AF0-A924-DB3703C9177A
16/08/12 16:25:48,440 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: Version 2011.4.2 (Aug 30 2011 14:41:12) external FUSE 27
16/08/12 16:25:48,440 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: Mounted /dev/rdisk0s4 (Read-Write, label "BOOTCAMP", NTFS 3.1)
16/08/12 16:25:48,440 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: Cmdline options: recover,sfmconv,streams_interface=openxattr,nfconv,fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,adaptiveuid,adaptivegid
16/08/12 16:25:48,441 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: Mount options: fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/disk0s4,volname=BOOTCAMP
16/08/12 16:25:48,441 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: License: Valid.
16/08/12 16:25:48,441 tuxera_ntfs[1056]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
16/08/12 16:25:48,607 fseventsd[43]: could not open <</Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
16/08/12 16:25:48,668 fseventsd[43]: log dir: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 3EB5271A-63FA-44C4-81FA-01E4461DA27D
16/08/12 16:25:50,501 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:50,501 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:50,757 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:50,757 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing
16/08/12 16:25:52,643 mDNSResponder[34]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformWriteTCP - send Broken pipe
16/08/12 16:25:52,643 mDNSResponder[34]: tcpConnectionCallback: error writing

Then I shut down the computer again.

Step 2

I didn't find any crash or panic log. Just some previous application hang logs.

Thanks.

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Answer 3

Linc Davis

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Aug 16, 2012 10:50 AM in response to MV1005

Repair the permissions of the boot volume in Disk Utility. Reboot and test. If there's no improvement, boot in safe mode (shift key down at startup) and see whether it makes a difference. Booting in safe mode will be very slow; the question is what happens afterwards.

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Answer 4

MV1005 Author

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Aug 17, 2012 12:11 AM in response to Linc Davis

I repaired the permissions and rebooted, but I didn't notice any improvement in boot speed nor in general system speed.

Now I booted in safe mode. It took 3'40" to boot up, and 55" to login, as expected.

Linc Davis wrote:

[...] the question is what happens afterwards.

Exactly. What should happen?

I can't notice any speed improvement in safe mode, mostly because the graphic acceleration looks disabled (and every time I press Cmd+T in Safari it takes ages to render the Top Sites page).

Could you tell me a bit more?

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Answer 5

Aug 17, 2012 12:35 AM in response to MV1005

Not what you want to hear, but I don't think those times are not out of the ordinary. I get somewhat similar times on a 2.4 MBP. Once photoshop is open does it function normally' part of your problem is that your didk is too filled up. Things start to bog when the HD gets close to full. You may want to look into a larger HD or move about 60 GBs of stuff to an external drive. Good luck.

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Answer 6

CMCSK

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Aug 17, 2012 12:41 AM in response to MV1005

Check your Login Items in Accounts and get rid of or disable all you do not need. This will speed up your boot time.

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Answer 7

MV1005 Author

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Aug 17, 2012 1:06 AM in response to Barry Fisher

Barry Fisher wrote:

Not what you want to hear, but I don't think those times are not out of the ordinary. I get somewhat similar times on a 2.4 MBP. Once photoshop is open does it function normally' part of your problem is that your didk is too filled up. Things start to bog when the HD gets close to full. You may want to look into a larger HD or move about 60 GBs of stuff to an external drive. Good luck.

PS works normally once it's open (but in the first few minutes I keep seeing The Spinning Beach Ball of Death every time I click on something).

I know this times are not extraordinary out of the normal. I'm looking for optimization tricks to remove unnecessary things all-around the system.

On a PC at this point I would simply format and re-install Windows, and enjoy the speed of the fresh system.

Anyway, I moved on the 2nd HD my main photo library from Lightroom, freeing up 25 GB more.

Now I have 53 out of 114 GB free in my startup partition (I forgot to mention I also have a 45 GB BootCamp partition).

Check your Login Items in Accounts and get rid of or disable all you do not need. This will speed up your boot time.

I already stick to the minimum..

I want to find a way to remove all the useless files I don't know about that slow me down.. I know they are around.. somewhere..

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Answer 8

Aug 17, 2012 1:41 AM in response to MV1005

I didn't look in detail at your log, but I have a question.

How are your permisions at /

You can check that in the terminal.

Open the Terminal app from Utilities folder and type

ls -lsad /

Can you post the result?

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Answer 9

MV1005 Author

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Aug 17, 2012 1:47 AM in response to AmadeusBiteTheApple

AmadeusBiteTheApple wrote:

I didn't look in detail at your log, but I have a question.

How are your permisions at /

You can check that in the terminal.

Open the Terminal app from Utilities folder and type

ls -lsad /

Can you post the result?

Sure:

FirstName-LastName:~ Username$ ls -lsad /
0 drwxr-xr-x  37 Username  staff  1326 17 Ago 09:25 /

(I replaced the words FirstName, LastName and Username)

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Answer 10

Aug 17, 2012 1:53 AM in response to MV1005

Supposed you have the right user (who is aloud to use the sudo command), do as next:

Open the terminal again, so far you closed the terminal and type, or copy and paste those 2 commands. After each command press ENTER

STEP 1

cd /

sudo chown root:admin /

The first command will place you in the root-directory, which is /

The second command will change the permissions for the root-directory.

On every UNIX-like systems the / must be owned by root.

STEP 2

After doing that, close all applications and reboot.

Post if reboot-speed is better.

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Answer 11

MV1005 Author

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Aug 17, 2012 2:15 AM in response to AmadeusBiteTheApple

Ok, I did this:

FirstName-LastName:~ Username$ cd /
FirstName-LastName:/ Username$ sudo chown root:admin /
Password:
FirstName-LastName:/ Username$ ls -lsad /
0 drwxr-xr-x  37 root  admin  1326 17 Ago 09:25 /

Then rebooted.

The system boot was actually faster, it took around 47 seconds. Thanks.

Why isn't this the default setting? Could it have negative side-effects?

I don't think I ever had to type the administrator password to edit files in the root folder, so I suppose the owner has always been me (the only user I ever created on my MacBook).

Any other suggestion?

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Answer 12

Aug 17, 2012 2:38 AM in response to MV1005

Yes, this should be normal that root always own the / directory.

I think also that nobody change that deliberately. But I think this can happen by unpacking some archives. TAR or TGZ archives. Some of the archives are packed with paths including / , which shouldn't happen.

Or by installing some software, where the installer includes /

This is a bad behavior.

Other reason can be having some malware installed. Viruses don't have a easy life under UNIX-systems, but there are some ways to install them. One very effective ways is installing a software, which also include for example a cronjob. A cronjob can be initiated by a awk-script which at several miuntes/hours install/override some configurations in the background. The user don't see that.

While the script override some configurations regulary, the path can be included, so the script override the ownership. Notable tricky is that installing the software the first time, the software ask you for your password (which is sudo) and require by this way the acces for your whole disk. The software install the software in your /Application folder and in the same time it will install a cronjob with root permissions, which regulary override something in your system. Even if you face one day something curious and repair the configuration, the cronjob still override the configuration.

The solution is to delete the cronjob and the first step is to find out if you have a such cronjob.

You can check that by typing in the terminal the command

crontab -l

To check if root have a cronjob, type

sudo crontab -l

But this is just one of numerous possibilities. ClamXav normally filter those scripts out. I would install ClamXav and would check the whole disk.

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Answer 13

Aug 17, 2012 3:30 AM in response to MV1005

Regarding to your log, I have some further questions.

Do you use proxies? If yes, try to boot without proxies.
Did you specify some mounts at boot? If yes, disable those mounts.
When booting are there any USB-devices connected? If yes disconnect all USB devices.
Do you use any third party-filesystem-software (like mounting NTFS, REISER or EXT3 filesystems? If yes, we should see how to optimize that. So far I can see that in the log you use tuxera for NTFS. Normally your MAC OS could also do that. I'm always very carefuly using third party software regarding the handling of filesystems. It may work and a lot of software do the job, but not always very clean. The filesystem is the infrastructure of your system, the highway so to speek. Overloading the highway with MAC OS services and third party tools, can decrease the perfomance, you face a jam. Those tools are developed at a certain status of the OS. Apple doesn't care about everey vendor who offer his tools and they will not respect those tools. That means always installing an update from Apple (who maybe change something at the services who use and handle the filesystem) you can face several problems.
Something on you boot-camp seems to me not correct. I never use boot camp, but the last lines also cost you 6 seconds.

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Answer 14

MV1005 Author

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Aug 17, 2012 4:57 AM in response to AmadeusBiteTheApple

Looks like I have no cronjobs:

FirstName-LastName:~ Username$ crontab -l
crontab: no crontab for Username
FirstName-LastName:~ Username$ sudo crontab -l
Password:
crontab: no crontab for root
FirstName-LastName:~ Username$

I'm not usually the kind of user that gets infected by malwares but – just in case – I downloaded, installed and executed ClamXav. It is now scanning my disk, I will report anything found.

Regarding your second post, I will answer to your questions one by one.

No, I don't use proxies. I have one set up but it is usually disabled.
After a boot, my computer mounts the BOOTCAMP partition (which is on the statup partition's disk) and the second disk (which has only one partition) I installed in place of the DVD drive. How do I disable those automatic mounts?
No.
Yes, I use Tuxera NTFS. I need it to write on NTFS disks. Unless Apple changed something, by itself OS X can only read NTFS partitions.
Do you have any better suggestions on how to write on NTFS disks? I would like to reduce third-party softwares, but I need (and, well, want) to use Windows-compatible external drives, so the easiest way is to use NTFS file systems (I think).
I also want to remove the Windows 7 installation on boot-camp. Anyway, I needed Windows 7 on my Mac, and I preferred boot-camp to other solutions exactly because it's integrated with the system and does not use any third-party software.

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Answer 15

Linc Davis

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Aug 17, 2012 7:16 AM in response to MV1005

What should happen?

I was mainly interested in the launch times for Safari and Mail.

If repairing permissions in Disk Utility didn't fix the permissions of the root directory -- and according to what you've written, it didn't -- then I suggest you reinstall OS X. Back up all data first.

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