Q: Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

Mavericks runs incredibly slow on my 2011 13inch MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Core Duo CPU). Especially when switching between applications and mission control.

Hope Apple can fix it soon. Otherwise I have to roll back to mountain lion and sacrifice the great improvement in Mavericks.

You obviously have third party issues. I am running five macs with Maverics and not one single issue. But reinstall your backup if you believe it is the new OSX and not your install.

Cheers

Pete

You are probably right. I updated Mavericks through Apple store and I believe most ppl did the same as me. However, I am in the middle of an important project. Don't want to go through the pain of clean-install again.

Thanks.

listen

Upgrading I. The middle of an important project is not. Wry clever and a recipe for disaster. As you have found. I hope you have a good back up.

Cheers

Pete

I had the exact same problem (sluggish mission control et al) until I read through this thread and found a solution = 'repair disk permissions' using the Disk Utility.

I have Mac mini i5 late 2012 (which is quite NEW machine, I think). After upgrading from 10.8.5 to 10.9 evarything is slow, I see pizza almost all the time. Boot time is several minutes , I must wait about a minute more than on 10.8.5 to see the Dock... ***?! Streaming videos over my WiFi are laggy now, Mail is slow like ****. I did the persmissions repair in the Disk Utility, but I don't see any progress with system speed. I guess this should't happen on such a new computer. I'm disappointed I don't have time to back up and install the system from scratch or downgrade to previous OS X version. This behaviour is annoying and it's restraining me in my work.

WoW. Too disappointed. I should have learned my lesson, but no. I do the backups/clone and always have a bootable escape plan. However, I forgot how painful the recoveries can be. Especially, when you have multiple booting partitions.

I have a 24 inch 2009 and 17 inch mid 2010. I have already rolled back the Macbook Pro. The loss of Expresscard eSata access crippled my external drive access. That is unacceptable. The system ran reasonable well with that exception.

Both machines have 8gb RAM, but the iMac's 2.93 GHz Core 2 Duo with 1067 doesn't process as well as the 2.66GHz Core i7 with identical RAM.

ARD users will find a multitude of issues with interface bugs and serious lagging even before the memory is exhausted and running any memory pressure.

The performance was my reason for upgrading. Perhaps, the issues will be resolved. However, this is not ready for prime time on 2-3 year old machines. Too many disadvantages outweighing the broken promises of improved performance and more socially integrated OS features.

Sorry. I'm an early adopter, but these issues that hamper both work and play make this OS a nonstarter. I'll be rolling back the iMac as soon as I can stomach the wait of a full bit for bit recovery. I found that recoverying just the one partition failed on the MBP as the recovery partiion was still 10.9. I removed the recovery partition from 10.7 and 10.8 as they have been known to present issues in juggling quad boot partitioned drives.

My advice, even though I didn't take it myself (this new download now for free cought me off guard) JUST WAIT until they fix most of the issues that the early adopters suffer through first.

My only concern right now is that there may not be enough incentive for 3rd party providers to go back and get the 2-3 year old machines interoperable in light of the newer Thunderbolt and lack of 17inch MBP's since production stopped.

Older machines will need the benefit of the fusion drive technology that I'm reasonable certain is why my MBP ran well on 10.9 (except for ARD and its memory leaks and bad interface changes) since having an 8gb solid state onboard a 750GB set of platters.

Hope that was useful to someone.

I reinstalled with Recovery mode and it is faster now. Also moved my old server info /Library/Server to /Library/Server.backup and deleted server app. I reinstalled the server app but I haven't reset up server because it seems that the sharing is working just fine without it for now. I do need to test it again later for work but wondering if that was causing the major Mavericks slowdown.

I had extreme slowness with Mavericks on my mid-2011 27-inch iMac, 16 GB, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5.

After much troubleshooting, what finally worked was repairing permissions.

I booted from another volume (the recovery disk should work fine for this) then used disk utility to repair permissions on the slow volume.

Here are the steps, for those who might need them:

Apple menu > Restart. Hold down the option key. Select "Recovery-10.9" when it comes up. (You might have to use keyboard arrow keys to select it, then press Return.) 

When OS X Utilities appears, Click on Disk Utility then Continue.

On the left side, click on the hard drive where you installed Mavericks.

In the main window, click Repair Disk Permissions. It may take at least several minutes to complete, maybe much longer. Let it finish.

(I also did Verify Disk. It reported "The volume appears to be OK." so I did not click Repair Disk.)

When it's finished, go to Apple menu > Restart.

For me, the extreme slowness was gone after repairing permissions.

(I do occasionally still see some slowness the very first time an application is opened after installing Mavericks.)

It's possible that just repairing permissions without booting from another partition would work. My personal preference is to do it from another volume so I have the Repair Disk option.

This may not work for everyone, of course. I also installed Mavericks on a different partition that I had just erased. This was on the same computer. I never saw any of the slowness when I booted from that partition.

MAVRICKS has certainly screwed my 2012 Mac Book Pro. It's running very slow on boot and the apps could have been built and installed by Microsoft. Come on Apple, fix this quick.

Sounds like a bad install.

Pete

I put Maverick on my elderly 2008 MBP with 4gb Ram...It was really slow at first, but like one of the earlier posters said, once you let it run for a while...it straightened right out.

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After 2-3 restarts it's much faster than Mountain Lion, once your hard-drive has been indexed (spotlight) and your mac optimised (which can take minutes to hours, depending on your storage !).

Hi there!

You said: Run disk permissions from the recovery mode, can you tell me how do I do that?

Thanks for so far already!

Sidney

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