OS X Mavericks - Awful Performance

Good for you. As long as your happy.

I know, but now I have the trainspotters on my case 😁

I don't understand the metaphor, but good for you, as long as you're happy.

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1

1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM

Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 34 days 8:53:54

Disk Information:

ST9500423AS disk0 : (500.11 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (83.55 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N

USB Information:

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Kernel Extensions:

com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.67)

com.nvidia.CUDA (1.1.0)

Startup Items:

CUDA: Path: /System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA

HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[System] cn.com.zte.PPPMonitor.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] PPPMonitord.plist 3rd-Party support link

Launch Agents:

[System] cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] Swapper.plist 3rd-Party support link

User Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link

User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

Vodafone Mobile Broadband

VMCStatusMenu

Internet Plug-ins:

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 25 Outdated! Update

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 3rd-Party support link

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 3rd-Party support link

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.7

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9

3rd Party Preference Panes:

CUDA Preferences 3rd-Party support link

Flash Player 3rd-Party support link

Growl 3rd-Party support link

Java 3rd-Party support link

Bad Fonts:

None

Old Applications:

Audacity: Version: 2.0.3.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link

/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app

/Applications/iWork '09

dynamiclinkmanager: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclink/CS6/dynamiclinkmanager.app

SA Color Finesse 3 UI: Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app

dynamiclinkmediaserver: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclinkmediaserver/1.0/dynamiclinkmediaserver.app

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

26% firefox

3% mds_stores

2% plugin-container

1% Dock

1% hidd

Top Processes by Memory:

467 MB firefox

61 MB Safari

33 MB WindowServer

29 MB System Preferences

29 MB plugin-container

Virtual Memory Information:

26 MB Free RAM

747 MB Active RAM

730 MB Inactive RAM

725 MB Wired RAM

16.74 GB Page-ins

1.61 GB Page-outs

These are my etrecheck results. My 2.4 Core 2 Duo is horribly sluggish after Mavericks... please help

You need to start you own thread with your information. This is an old thread belonging to someone else and your problems differ.

And you certainly have issues with your install.

Cheers

Pete

Finally a clue about what's going on!

I, too, have experienced horrible performance on one of my Macs since updating to mavericks. It's a mid2010 MacBook Pro 15". Everything, I mean everything--even just opening a new finder window, has been super slow since installing mavericks. We've tried everything except wiping the hard disk and starting from scratch. In fact, I was about to try that, so I connected the macbook to our hub via Ethernet (to facilitate a faster download of the os installer), and suddenly, problems gone! As so as the Mac stopped using its wifi adapter, the system performance became blazing fast. So, I disconnected the Ethernet, turned of wifi, and did some further tests--blazing fast performance (of course, no network connectivity). Apps are opening up quickly, documents open quickly, switching from one Desktop to another is swift--this is how I expect the Mac Pro to behave.

Turned wifi on, and so far the machine is still performing well. I'm going to use it for a while, and see if the performance degrades.

It sure looks like some sort of resource leek in the wifi driver might be to blame... If my guess is correct, we'll see performance take a hit over time...

Amazing, you guys sounds as if you work Apple.

This version of their OS is the absolute worst, not only has it degraded performance to a degree where one might actually concider switching, but it also removes useful features just so Apple, as well as Google and others, can begin to scan your data and sell them to advertisers.

Complaining on the internet is all you can do, providing Apple feedback is a waste of time, trying to get issues resolved by speaking with their tech support is worse.

Little, or no, information about these issues are posted by Apple anywhere, or indeed what Apple intents to do about them.

So customers, you know those that actually pays for their stuff, wenting their frustration in these forums, is quite understandable and completely OK by me. This shows that I am not the only one experincing these issues, and Apple's inability to ptovide support in fixing them!

Try troubleshooting your problems so Mavericks works well for you as it does for the many many millions of other users world wide. You have given no indications of your issues. Steer a new thread and detail your problems.

Good luck

Pete

I try to not merely "vent" here but to exchange troubleshooting strategies.

Great, I am all for solutions, however, though I agree that Google is not the standard of anything and they most certainly break most standards in their IMAP implementaion, they are a big force as they have quite a few users of Gmail and so Apple should work on fixing the issues that their users are experiencing with Mail (which Airmail have done).

I have since I upgraded from 10.8 to Maverick in December 2013 (not a clean install), had the performance issue and much worse when using Mail with GMAIL (which is my company’s mail server so no choice really).

I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro dual core 7i with 8GB RAM and a 750GB drive.

I have read many posts, articles and Apple support pages since upgrading, to no awail.

I finally got so frustrated having tried everything I could think off, including speaking to a few supporters at Apple, that I backed up my Mac with Time Machine and did a clean install, not an easy thing by the way.

Then I clean installed my email account and other apps.

I then manually transferred files from my backup drive to avoid unknown files to corrupt Maverick, again something that required use of a terminal window and Unix commands, good luck non tech users!

Result; none!

Still Mail writes tens of thousands of changes to disk daily, killing performance.

Apple had absolutely no suggestions.

So this being a place for solutions, I am all ears.

Annoyed user5000 wrote:

Great, I am all for solutions, however, ...

Start your own Discussion.

Otherwise...

Result; none!

Your problem must be the Virtual memory.

Virtual memory means that the cumputer uses your hard disc as an internal memory.

Everything is written on the harddisc instead of your internal memory.

Restart your computer, clean out outdated plug ins to firefox.

There should be no active Virtual memory.

Best regards

Lasse

You sound like an Apple employee trying to defend Mavericks rather then an objective poster. For many of us, Mavericks has major issues.

i very much agree with you, Joe. i really wish there was a way to block the insufferable fanboys on this site, they are nauseating, and extremely unhelpful.

Synology Update

This what has been posted on Synology's support page.

Version: 4.3-3827

(2014/2/14)

Change Log

1. This update repairs the system and removes malware caused by past system vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-6955, CVE-2013-6987).
2. The compatibility of SMB 2 file service has been enhanced when transferring files to Mac OS X 10.9.
3. Fixed an issue where SFTP service would consume excessive memory when it was enabled.
4. This update is required to continue using QuickConnect & Push Service notifications.

techcafe wrote:

You sound like an Apple employee trying to defend Mavericks rather then an objective poster. For many of us, Mavericks has major issues.

i very much agree with you, Joe. i really wish there was a way to block the insufferable fanboys on this site, they are nauseating, and extremely unhelpful.

You can do it by choosing to leave, ignore or simply toughening up a bit, princess.

Cheers

Pete