Brian Campbell3
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Q: Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

I downloaded Mavericks this afternoon and installed it on my iMac i7 24GB RAM Everything seems to be slow in transitions from one app to another and many apps stall for severeal minutes as if the processor is playing catch-up. Thoughts? Should I just reinstall the update?

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 5:12 PM

by Brian Campbell3,Solvedanswer
Brian Campbell3 Brian Campbell3
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HI There,

 

There are a lot of good solutions in this thread.

 

Check the console to see if there is something running that is zapping the response time. Run disk permissions from the recovery mode and check to see if spotlight is running. This may slow things down a bit while making the initial index.

 

I'm starting day 3 with Mavericks and it is running smoothly now. Initially, many of my apps were slow starting, but now all seem to be running and starting as they should.

 

Thanks to all of you that contributed solution offerings.

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 7:25 AM

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  • by Brian Campbell3,

    Brian Campbell3 Brian Campbell3 Oct 23, 2013 9:32 AM in response to DobaKung
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    Oct 23, 2013 9:32 AM in response to DobaKung

    I Look forward to hearig your results. I just downloaded the full install and am running it to see is that helps. I also got all the new installs for runtime updates and for the iLife suite. I'll keep ya'll posted about the progress.

  • by chattphotos,

    chattphotos chattphotos Oct 23, 2013 10:12 AM in response to dmschwartz
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    Oct 23, 2013 10:12 AM in response to dmschwartz

    In a test running from a Firewire disk, Mavericks is running very smoothly, no performance issues, crashes, or slowdowns.

     

    I just used chrome and evernote in this test, but if it runs this well on a FW disk, then an SSD will have no problems at all.

  • by stylvens,

    stylvens stylvens Oct 23, 2013 1:01 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 1:01 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    OS X Mavericks makes my Mac Book Pro run slow and slow that my activities which is very annoying. On top of that my built-in camera stops working after 2min of use on Skype which never happened before I install the new OS X system. It is only the begining I havent runned all my applications yet.

  • by gammaburst,

    gammaburst gammaburst Oct 23, 2013 1:37 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 1:37 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    Same problem here. EVERYTHING runs slooow. Worst is Mail, I have not been able to open it since uograding to mavericks

  • by skorman,

    skorman skorman Oct 23, 2013 2:08 PM in response to gammaburst
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    Oct 23, 2013 2:08 PM in response to gammaburst

    After upgrading, my 2008 unibody Macbook was painfully slow. I immediately regretted the upgrade. A couple of hours later, the computer is back up to speed and working great. Apple should warn customers before installing the Mavericks update that their computer could initially experience a temporary slowdown after the upgrade.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 23, 2013 2:25 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 2:25 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.


    Feedback

  • by DavePoet,Helpful

    DavePoet DavePoet Oct 23, 2013 2:57 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 2:57 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    I had the same problem, installed Mavericks on Mid 2012 Macbook Pro and my machine slowed down horribly, also my battery was showing much less time than normal... I did a recovery and reinstalled Mavericks again and everything is running perfectly... just had to re-authorize some of my programs, otherwise all seems perfect so far!

    the following is taken from this page: http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/

    Command-R to the rescue.

    Just hold down Command-R during startup and OS X Recovery springs into action. It lets you choose from common utilities: You can run Disk Utility to check or repair your hard drive, erase your hard drive and reinstall a fresh copy of OS X, or restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup. You can even use Safari to get help from Apple Support online. And if OS X Recovery encounters problems, it will automatically connect to Apple over the Internet.

     

    Hope other find this works for them too! Good luck!

  • by rommm,

    rommm rommm Oct 23, 2013 3:03 PM in response to DavePoet
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    Oct 23, 2013 3:03 PM in response to DavePoet

    mavericks is running VERY painfully slow on my mac mini. mail is the worst, just beachballs if I click anywhere.

  • by Brian Campbell3,

    Brian Campbell3 Brian Campbell3 Oct 23, 2013 3:05 PM in response to DavePoet
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    Oct 23, 2013 3:05 PM in response to DavePoet

    I found once I ran disk utilities and allowed the extra time for every program to start up, things seemed to be back to normal and functioning well. I recommend the recovery technique and run your disk permissions to get your mac back on track.

  • by rommm,

    rommm rommm Oct 23, 2013 3:08 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 3:08 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    I ran disk utilities, removed all the startup items, old caches,  gave the programs extra time to startup for the first time. So far nothing's worked. Reinstalling 10.9 with recovery mode now. Too slow to be bearable so hopefully this fixes it.

  • by Zakalwe,Helpful

    Zakalwe Zakalwe Oct 23, 2013 3:16 PM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 23, 2013 3:16 PM in response to Brian Campbell3

    I am having multiple issues after upgrading as well, first Finder kept crashing every few seconds, hereafter multiple small issues. Most of them could be solved by upgrading 3rd party applications.

     

    In order to find the culprits of your slowdowns, open up the Mac OS X Console and keep an eye on the messages that keep popping up during use. The the printed strings often have the name of the app or you can do a quick online search.

    This way I was able to find several 3rd party utilities which were causing problems and updating or disabling them made my Mac feel a lot faster.

     

    Good luck!

  • by LDO42,

    LDO42 LDO42 Oct 24, 2013 12:14 AM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 24, 2013 12:14 AM in response to Brian Campbell3

    Hi everybody, I am french i gonna do my best to have a good speaking

    I have big problem of speed since I intalled Mavericks: (imac 27, mid 2011, 3,4 Ghz, 8 Go RAM)

    Kernel task: 5Go

    mdworker 1 Go

    etc...

    And swap swap swap... I installed Mavericks 12 hours ago .. and not better. Spot light scan is finish since few hours..

     

    I am about to come back to ML..

     

    Do you have more informations?

  • by jvanhuys,

    jvanhuys jvanhuys Oct 24, 2013 2:01 AM in response to Brian Campbell3
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    Oct 24, 2013 2:01 AM in response to Brian Campbell3

    I am a film compositor and have just finished work on Nelson Mandela's film "Long Walk to Freedom". But now I can not do any film work, thanks to you Apple, I am now in danger of losing my income.

     

    Apple needs to understand they are causing serious harm to people when they release a faulty OS

    Apple, because of Mavericks 3 programs that I use on a daily basis, has slowed down to an unusable state.

     

    Programs affected:

    Nuke 7
    Photoshop CC
    After Effects CC

     

    Apple you have just fu*ked me. This is my daily bread, my income. Why do you do this to me when I support you so loyally. Guess you don't really care Tim Cook.

  • by clintonfrombirmingham,

    clintonfrombirmingham clintonfrombirmingham Oct 24, 2013 2:17 AM in response to jvanhuys
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    Oct 24, 2013 2:17 AM in response to jvanhuys

    jvanhuys,

     

    I don't really know what Nuke 3 is, but I'm successfully running Photoshop CC and After Effects CC quite speedily - faster than when used with Mountain Lion, even.

     

    You may want to jump over to the Adobe forums to see what's up with your CC apps...

     

    Clinton

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Oct 24, 2013 2:22 AM in response to jvanhuys
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    Oct 24, 2013 2:22 AM in response to jvanhuys

    jvanhuys wrote:

     

    I am a film compositor and have just finished work on Nelson Mandela's film "Long Walk to Freedom". But now I can not do any film work, thanks to you Apple, I am now in danger of losing my income.

     

    Apple needs to understand they are causing serious harm to people when they release a faulty OS

    Apple, because of Mavericks 3 programs that I use on a daily basis, has slowed down to an unusable state.

     

    Programs affected:

    Nuke 7
    Photoshop CC
    After Effects CC

     

    Apple you have just fu*ked me. This is my daily bread, my income. Why do you do this to me when I support you so loyally. Guess you don't really care Tim Cook.

    Photoshop CC and AE CC fine here also. Same - never heard of Nuke 7. All other Pro Apps runninf fast and fine as well.

     

    Pete

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