Q: Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

Barney-15E wrote:

 

I have no idea why anybody has issues with slowness on this OS. I don't have a lot of crud on my Mac.

I don't need a little meter in my menu bar telling me when its hot, cold, wet, or dry.

I don't need the color of the Dock to change.

I don't need colored icons in the sidebar.

I don't install any software provided by a peripheral device manufacturer (except the bundled printer drivers).

I don't get my internet from my USB port--that's for keyboards and mice, not ethernet comm.

I don't use a mouse and keyboard that requres a kernel extension to run--yeah, that may be one fabulous keyboard, but if you can't make it work without wedging yourself into the kernel...

I'm not an audio engineer, so I don't have lots of MIDI devices and the software to support them.

I have learned over the years that there is not a single "maintenance" program that should be used--most shouldn't be used ever. Some have some good one-click routines to solve individual problems, but I haven't used one since Leopard.

I'm not a heavy email user. I've got several accounts, but none are life-critical or profession-critical.

I don't need to easily update my "status" as I have no status to update.

While my account is somewhat spartan, my wife has an enormous iPhoto and iMovie Library. We're close to filling a 1TB startup drive, and I've got almost 3TB of movies on externals, and they are backed up on various drives.

Nice advice, buddy. My kernel is ~690MB. Don't know what that says about me or my Mac.

Among our computers, we do have a backup/server to handle common files and backups. I like doing it that way (sharing the files) very much. I tend to keep the system that are in place and solve the day-to-day issues when they come up. Simpler the better.

With you on the above. WIll try to re-install the OS before going back to the beginning, bare drive. Thanks for all you do.

You inspired me... Please follow my new thread, "Does my "Stuff" make Mavericks run slow?"

@petermac87  I did the Etrecheck many days ago and you gave me no answer. Could you help me about the Mavericks bugs? Thanks

I installed on my mac intel and immediately had problems with chrome. Stalling then crashing. Swtiched to safari after not finding any posted solutions. Then mac just started running slow on other stuff like mail, notes calender etc.

CPU meter indicated that Addressbooksync was running 80% along with Findname... removed the address sync options. a bit better.

Mac still slow though. Notice that starting even the system pref cpu rocked to 100% and took ages to ope for icloud and accounts. Happening all the time now.

I think they released this too early. Not upgrading my other puters yet.

Cant wait for a fix.

Folks - like Brian said there are good information in this thread to resolve mac slowness. Here is what i did to resolve my problem.

- Ran Disk permission repair

- Erased free space

- Repair Disk

- Fix key chain error

- Deleted old apps that i dont use anymore

- after two restarts, my iMac is back to normal

Hi HenryS,

Mavericks seems more snappier than MountainLion. What I've noticed about these systems is that you should keep the desktop clear. My desktop has only the hard disk and aliases.

gl,

kel

I'm glad for you, nDwiwan BUT. Why would one have to resort to such.... Windows-style remedials to fix things?!

As I've previously stated, from my ( historical ) experience of Apple OS's, this is the most difficult upgrade....ever. Period.  I don't care about the theories concerning third - party apps and utilities, shaking up things. None of this figured to such an extent in previous incarnations of the Apple OS. Already-installed third party c**p quickly  came into line, and I never recalled such cantankerous resistance to alien code as is present with Mavericks. ****, Mav can hardly seem to cope with its native apps, from what I'm reading.

No. This is, obviously, a ill-conceived release.Please don't quote the "millions" who are happily using this OS. The "millions" are almost certainly not "power users", or even weekend weight-trainers, and are exploiting nothing more than what Apple provides.Wake up: everyone wants third party apps! Why does one need to be a code nerd to  solve this?!  The Apple OS is not all-seeing,all doing.

In the good old days ( ie: this year! ) upgrades of the OS happily coped with the third-party stuff  waiting to catch up. I, personally, suffered nothing adverse in updating and upgrading ,before Mavericks. Bad name, BTW. B-a-a-a-d name.

In the " good old days the Apple OS was robust enough to shrug off the third-party issue, generally. Now, it's clear that Apple cannot even manage its own apps and utilities, without some deleterious effects thanks to Mavericks.

Now. What's that all about?!

michalvee - i totally agree to your point. The whole reason i switched to mac was due to the infamous Vista upgrade. Previous OSX upgrade wasnt like this in my Mac book Pro, it was ok if not worse. What i noticed is in my old iMac ( 5 1/2 years old) went thru several OSX upgrades but i never used the desktop to notice the downgrade in performance.

Well said michaelvee, nDiwan.

I wonder if this is a sign of things to come now that good ol' Jobs is not around.

gturbiani wrote:

 

@petermac87  I did the Etrecheck many days ago and you gave me no answer. Could you help me about the Mavericks bugs? Thanks

I can't find it.

Pete

Barney-15E wrote:

 

I don't install any software provided by a peripheral device manufacturer (except the bundled printer drivers).

I don't even install those unless something doesn't work with the Apple provided drivers, which isn't too often these days.  Many printer venders are only providing OS X drivers through Apple.

I am hearing that some printer functions (e.g. fax from computer) that worked in Mountain Lion stopped in Mavericks, so I suspect there are a few driver updates in the works.

petermac87 wrote:

gturbiani wrote:

 

@petermac87  I did the Etrecheck many days ago and you gave me no answer. Could you help me about the Mavericks bugs? Thanks

I can't find it.

It's here.

You would not belive but my imac 20-inch, Early 2009 is FASTER than the most recent Mac Pro 8 core that should be used at work.

Way to go Apple!

MadMacs0 wrote:

 

petermac87 wrote:

gturbiani wrote:

 

@petermac87  I did the Etrecheck many days ago and you gave me no answer. Could you help me about the Mavericks bugs? Thanks

I can't find it.

It's here.

Thanks.

I would suggest you to use at leas 8 gb of RAM. It is a must for Apple computers since 2012.