Q: Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

SBenoit5 wrote:

 

I have an iMac mid 2011 27", I made a jump from Snow Leo to Maverick, did a clean install, on an erased (0s) drive, with 12Gb of RAM. The only thing was that I made a migration of my previous user stuff. Maybe it is that, but what a difference... the performance and speed drop by 50%.

That sounds very strange to me. I made a similar jump from 10.5.8 on a PPC iMac to 10.8 on the 21.5" version of your iMac, migrating only user stuff and installed all third party software from source. The only thing I did differently was to make sure that there was no PPC only code that migrated. I did have a few old apps, prefs panels, etc. in my home folder, but I don't think any of it would cause the kind of thing you are seeing. The scripts I used to clean things up were from Check for PowerPC Programs Before Upgrading to Lion if you want to give that a try first.

I assume you know that you cannot use Disk Utility to repair user permissions. You have to boot to the Recovery Partition and run Terminal commands to do that.

And before you start from scratch, try an OS X Recovery first. That way you won't have to re-install software and user stuff, which won't be touched. I had to do that once with Mavericks 10.9.0 when something suddenly went South. Been working perfectly since then.

I've been fighting this for a while too, but think I just resolved it. Someone earlier (lost the link, sorry) about checking the Console, so I brought up the Console and saw hundreds (at least) of messages from iCalendar struggling to sync with my Google account.

I don't really use Icalendar all that much, so I followed the prompts to bring up Internet Accounts and removed my Google account entirely from the machine. I didn't even need to reboot, the machine sped up right away. I'm a bit astonished, but happy that my macbook is usable again.

I hope this helps someone else.

tl;dr - Bring up Console, and look for clues in the error messages there.

Know what? I have a mid-2011 21.5 Imac w/ 4GB of RAM, 2.5 Core i5, 500gig HD, OSX 9 Mavericks, AMD Radeon HD 6750M. I bought it second hand, and didn't even do a clean install. I was intending to use ML, but I needed to use the Pro Apps, etc, and therefore, I had to upgrade to Mavericks. The Machine was working perfectly, with WIN8,WIN7, and ubuntu 64-bit in Parellels Desktop 9, and Motion and FCPX. but i DO see THE SPINNING PINWHEEL OF DEATH sometimes. I am a programmer and a video editor, you see, so I need tons of Apps, including Apps that require a high-end computer. But 10.9 works fine!

I think we have the same machine, I bought second hand too but mine is slow even with 8gb RAM. My old PC running faster than my iMac. Can you tell me how's your imac set up? THE SPINNING PINWHEEL making me crazy sometimes...

Thanks.

I dunno. according to the specs, my imac should be slow as ****. but i don't use icloud. I don't have mail accounts setup. I donot  use facetime, ical, maps, reminders. Also: boot thru recovery partiotion, and repair the disk you have installed mavericks on.

Hope that helps!

thanks

How is someone supposed to know what a message indicate in the console, and also if one of those things is taking up needed resources. I have 4000 console messages, just from this day alone.

IMHO, it's a mistake to monitor the Console's "All Messages" display. By far the majority of the items listed are informational and of little interest to most users. Better to narrow your focus to the "system.log" and items found in Diagnostic Reports (crashes, hangs, panics) to get an idea of what has gone wrong.  When you see an app that's crashing a lot, it's time to figure out why. The system.log is the default for all error messages, so when you see the same app spewing out hundreds of error message, it's time to find out why.

As far as resource usage is concerned, I have never used the Console to give me that kind of information. That's what Activity Monitor is for.

I own a MBP late 2011 13 inch (MD-313), and recently upgraded to OSX Mavericks 10.9.3, from Lion 10.7, all Apps are working fine, (iWork, Ilife, and Pro Apps included) though experiencing a little bit Slower in speed when I turned on my machine, it takes more time to start

Rest seems fine, in-fact a Secondary Display has a seprate MENU BAR, which is definately a convinience.

Overall, the upgraded OS leaves a positive impact

Hi, finally I have install OSX Maverick, and as I supposed my Mac was terrific slow down after the update

I have this system configuration:

Hardware Information:

    MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009)

    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,4

    1 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores

    4 GB RAM

Video Information:

    NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB

System Software:

    OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 2:39:41

Note: the slow performances was not detected with the previous OSX 10.7 version.

Now to work with XCode5.1.1 and the iPhone simulator is simply terrific!

Dozens of minutes in wait with the spinner running... very frustrating!

Well... I've read in this thread that a workaround can be done using the 'Repair Disk Permissions' in Disk Utility.

Is this true? Can the slow system issue be fixed running this utility?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions and tips.

Ale

Well... I've read in this thread that a workaround can be done using the 'Repair Disk Permissions' in Disk Utility.

If you read this thread you should know enough to start a new Discussion rather than reply to one that Brian Campbell3 solved over half a year ago.

Thanks for the answer I will start a new discussion hoping to solve the Maverick issue.

Macbook Aluminium 4gb ram, 250gb hhd

Even after clean install of mavericks, computer still seems a bit sluggish.

Please God Apple do something to put us out of our misery.

moishyb wrote:

 

Macbook Aluminium 4gb ram, 250gb hhd

 

Even after clean install of mavericks, computer still seems a bit sluggish.

Then I guess you are one of those users that require 8GB RAM and an SSD drive. I know I'm much happier on my iMac with 20GB RAM and Mavericks is the fastest Mac OS I've ever used, once it get's all it's databases updated (which take the better part of a day, for me).

My iMac isn't brand new, 2009,but it's also not super old. Once it's running it works okay, but takes forever to start up using Mavericks, once it's logged out. I was using the recommended power saver settings, but waiting 5 minutes (yes thats how long it takes) to just open an application, when my mac goes to sleep, was completely unacceptable. I changed those settings so that my computer never sleeps, and the monitor sleeps after 3 hours. Every morning, or after 3 hours of inactivity, it still takes me 5 minutes to login. I'm glad that your happy wt your iMac, wish I could say the same ):

Guys, a simple Safari 'reset' totally solved this issue for me.