I just picked up a new 13" MBP a few weeks ago and was getting 7 hours of battery life. I upgrade to Maverick a few minutes ago and noticed that it was cut in half!
Anyone else see this kind of loss?
Is it just from finder indexing my MBP?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
You can't tell from the first few minutes what the battery life is going to be. Spotlight is indexing, and that will affect both battery life and performance temporarily.
Any idea how long it is suppose to run? I am very new to Mac but something doesn't seem right about the loss of that much battery time.
I have less the 150gb of used space on my hard. It is my very first Mac and not a lot of data is on it. I am still making the transition from Windows.
You can use the new Activity Monitor to determine a unitless "Energy Impact" value:
The value's meaning is not immediately apparent but it is apparent that Spotlight will have a great effect on power until it finishes indexing. You can't draw any conclusions regarding battery life until it does. The amount of time it will take is commensurate with the amount of data on all your mounted volumes, and could be hours.
You should expect greater battery life with Mavericks, perhaps significantly greater, due to its many improved energy efficiency algorithms.
Nope, youll get MORE battery life out of Mavericks.
That depends on how many files you have. It should be something on the order of an hour or less in most cases.
Same problem here, Only Chrome open with 1 tab (Google), and battery was cut by half.
(Mac Book Air 13" 2013)
the same here on Macbook Air (2013) ... 6:40 instead of 9h.
something goes completely wrong at APPLE and MAVERICK
Same problem here. Upgraded to Mavericks and the battery life dropped from around 7h:30m to 4h:30m, on my 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mid 2009. This is after spotlight finished indexing; did a full battery drain and charged it again, though got the same results. Only open app is Google Chrome with one tab.
A trend has emerged...
Erowlin wrote:
Same problem here, Only Chrome open with 1 tab (Google), and battery was cut by half.
globalappleuser17 wrote:
Same problem here. ...
Google has yet to figure out how to write an app for OS X that doesn't suçk and there is no reason to expect they ever will. Get rid of it.
How do you explain this then :
Since I read your comment, I used Safari, and it's the same problem.
Hi Erowlin
Please start a new Discussion with your question and your relevant system details. Thanks!
Same problem here. The most I've gotten from the battery is 5.5 hours, but I think that was a fluke. Late 2011 Macbook Pro. Reset the NVRAM, SMC, etc.
Had the same problem. Spotlight keept up indexing.
I tried:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/17/rebuild-spotlight-index/
which didn't help.
Then I found this solutioin:
| Let indexing begin on the volume. | |
| 2. | Open Terminal, located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder. |
| 3. | At the Terminal prompt, type the following command, exactly as written: sudo mdutil -i off /path_to_volume where /path_to_volume is the path of the volume being indexed. [1] |
| 4. | Press Return. |
| 5. | If prompted for a Password, type your Admin password, then press Return.You will receive the response: /path_to_volume/: Indexing disabled for volume. under Mac OS X 10.4 or/path_to_volume: Indexing disabled. under Mac OS X 10.5 or later.Spotlight will immediately cease to index the specified volume. |
| 6. | If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 or later, skip to step 9.Otherwise, erase the partial index created by Spotlight under Mac OS X 10.4 . At the Terminal prompt, type the following command, exactly as written: sudo mdutil -E /path_to_volume where /path_to_volume is the path of the volume being indexed. [1] |
| 7. | Press Return. |
| 8. | If prompted for a Password, type your Admin password, then press Return.You will receive the response: /path_to_volume/: Volume index removed. |
| 9. | At the Terminal prompt, type exit then press Return. |
| 10. | Quit (Command-Q) Terminal. |
After a reboot type in Terminal
sudo mdutil -E /
I did another reboot.
After a while everything worked fine again.
Source:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
Good luck
Meanwhile my battery lasts longer than wih 10.8 🙂
I'm also having the same problem, MBA mid 13 , battery drops significantly even when I'm not using the computer
It 's not what I call a fix since you have to remove a functionnality to make another work.
The index of Spotlight is something important for me, and for a lot of people I think since it make your search faster. The Spotlight indexing took a long time on my MBA me too, about 4 hours I think. Just let it work.
BTW, for me the indexing is over now and it didn't fix the problem of battery.
Horrible battery on Maverick
