Q: OS X Mavericks - Awful Performance

i saved novabench results of my old macbook air 2010:

      Air 2010 Core2duo Mountain lion   288

      Air 2011 i5              Mavericks        225

    thanks Cupertino!

    i hear the start up sound 8seconds after releasing the power button! had you experienced the same?

Absolutely agree! My Loaded MBP is a paperweight! Well, more like a slow moving cracked out turtle. There has to be something that can resolve this. My external G-Drives... forget it! I am more concerned this "software" issue will or is damaging my "hardware!"

Hi 1 Vision

Please start a new Discussion and include your system details so that your concerns can be addressed. Thanks!

Do you have Intego VirusBarrier installed? If yes, just disable real time scan and let us know.

Yo John. Do you know if there was some upgrade on the most common performance issues we're getting from Mavericks? I'm talking about ocasional (HUGE! Up to 5 seconds) typing lag and slow system responses on relatively new Mac computers.

Mavericks is such a nice system but its disheartening to watch my computer slowing into a crawl.

We need more info about your iMac other than "My iMac is running slow."

What year, screen size, CPU speed and amount of RAM installed?

To find out info about your system, click on the Apple symbol in the upper left of the OS X main menu bar. A drop down menu appears. Click About this Mac. A smaller popup window appears. This gives you basic info like what version of OS X your iMac is running, the speed of your iMac's CPU and how much RAM is installed.   Click on the button that says More Info. A larger window appears giving you a complete overview of your iMac's hardware specs. Highlight all of this info and copy/paste all of this into another reply to this post, editing out your iMac's serial number before actually posting the reply. This will tell us everything about your iMac so we may begin to help with your iMac issues.

How full is your Mac's hard drive?

Locate your iMac's hard drive icon on the OS X desktop. Click the icon once, then use the keyboard key combination Command-I. This will give you additonal info about your iMac's internal hard drive.

How many applications do you run simultaneously in the background while working in another application?

Do you run any antivirus software on your Mac? Antivirus software can slow down the normal operation of OS X.

Do you run any "crapware" like Mackeeper or any other type of "crapware" like so called hard drive "cleaning" apps?

Another her possibilty is that some of your iMac's hardware, like your iMac's hard drive, could be failing.

MichelPM wrote:

 

We need more info about your iMac other than "My iMac is running slow."

 

ulzeraj, use etrecheck…

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

It generates a concise report, post it here & we can tell you about any red flags.

I wonder if you're seeing errors in system.log relating to 'unable to bring application xxx to foreground'.

This seems to cause beachballing in OSX.

I'm come to conclusion that Mavericks and Server 3 is a beyond a joke; a format and reinstall is the only answer, before heading down to the Windows store.

At which point the 1990s have called and we're back to Windows.

Amazingly, Apple have dragged Unix into a Windows-class mess.  Apple did this crap with ML and SL, they don't learn.

Or it just runs great without any problems. Enjoy the '90s.

Well, for a lot of people Mavericks has been a joke. Its ok for you you get paid for this. I don't.

No need, I have a Newton from the 1990s, which still does thinga an iPad can't.

I don't get paid for any of this. It's a volunteer user to user technical support forum.

If you're just going to whine and complain, I'll needle you right back.

If you want to try to sort out your problems, post the symptoms, preferably in your own thread.

Hi,

my 2011 MacBook Pro is also very unresponsive. No excessive CPU usage, no excessive disk activity (yes, spotlight's finished indexing), but even clicking on the menu bar results in a lag of a second or so, which is absurd. Even opening Contacts takes about 5 to 7 seconds (with about 100 contacts, it's not as though it's loading a huge database). Disk Utility finds no errors (fixed some minor permissions issues without effect). It was an upgrade (not erase and install), from Snow Leopard. Standard 2011 15", 4GB RAM.

It worked perfectly in Snow Leopard, and at this stage, I regret "updating".

It will be increadibly helpful if you create a report via this…

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

It is specifically designed for this purpose.

We can point out any red flags, & you have the choice of removing them or updateing old items.

for free? you're funny or...

As for complaing, suck it up, Apple have screwed up with this release, and wasted a lot of my time, which is not free or really for wasting on here going in circles with people who can't do anything useful as they're not 'paid' or in position to influence.

The people who can do something about this, eg. the engineers need to hear that they've made a mess of Mavericks, heck all the Beta versions of Mavericks (I'm a dev so that suck that too) worked better than the GM.

I don't have the time to raise a RADAR, I don't get paid to fix Apple's software problems. Apple's employees do.

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Users such as Coffeebreath do not seem to wish to fix their issues, regardless of the fact that millions and millions of Maverick users are having no issues. They wish only to go on anti-Apple rants and yet refuse to post details they are asked for out of the fear and embarrasment of finding out that it is most likely caused by their own third party installs. Others have been asked also and dissapear quickly from the forums. Other post what is asked and solve their issues almost immediately.

Cheers

pete