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Hello, I have MacBook pro Mid 2012. After update to Mavericks, my laptop really slowed down, started crashing, lagging, especially Safari, Launchpad have lags, in general video performace is bad, also Activity Monitor shows that browser takes 100% CPU, temperatures are higher in comparison to Mountain Lion.
Resetting SMC, PRAM and reinstall don't help.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
To help determine the possible causes of this behaviour read the following. None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting:
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or “failed” or anything else that may appear in red.
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
After completing the above please determine if the problems also occur in "Safe Mode":
Some users have reported an SMC resetto be beneficial. Be sure to read the procedure carefully and follow all the steps exactly as written, even if they seem inapplicable or trivial.
Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
To help determine the possible causes of this behaviour read the following. None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting:
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or “failed” or anything else that may appear in red.
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
After completing the above please determine if the problems also occur in "Safe Mode":
Some users have reported an SMC resetto be beneficial. Be sure to read the procedure carefully and follow all the steps exactly as written, even if they seem inapplicable or trivial.
OK, so I booted OS X Recovery and Disk Utility - according to it, everything is fine.
Next, EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
Startup Items:
FanControlDaemon - Path: /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:4:36
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500,11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499,25 GB (152,22 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_manager.plist
[loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_server.plist
[loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_start.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
[loaded] com.wacom.pentablet.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.annareklinska.plist
[loaded] com.google.Chrome.framework.plist
[failed] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
VMware Fusion Helper
Dropbox
Dropbox
3rd Party Preference Panes:
PenTablet
Fan Control
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
Java
MacFUSE (Tuxera)
Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Default Browser.plugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
GDL Web Plugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
NP_2020Player_IKEA.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
WacomNetscape.plugin
WacomTabletPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
6% mds
2% WindowServer
1% EtreCheck
1% TextEdit
1% ubd
1% mds_stores
0% ocspd
0% BBLaunchAgent
0% coreservicesd
0% fontd
Top Processes by Memory:
258 MB Safari
135 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
123 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
83 MB mds_stores
70 MB Dropbox
66 MB WindowServer
37 MB Dock
37 MB com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService
33 MB mds
29 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Statistics:
1.25 GB Free RAM
1.70 GB Active RAM
456 MB Inactive RAM
610 MB Wired RAM
351 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Then, I started in Safe Mode and still there was poor graphic? video? performance, I understand that it shouldn't be perfectly smooth, but there was weird flashing, crashing and stuff. Photo:
You can see some of it (it's from Safari, but for example Launchpad is even worse). It's like that all the time in Safe Mode. I don't know if that's normal.
And I did SMC reset again, but it also didn't help.
Oh and apps often crash when I first start them, but then, I repeat action and they open.
Funny story, Mavericks should improve performance, better video memory and ram, but I'm experiencing completely different story.
I can't edit, anyway, here's a record from my screen:
Thanks annrek.
Autocad requires an update for Mavericks compatibity: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-for-Mac/AutoCAD-2013-for-Mac-SP2-Beta-is-a vailable/td-p/4559985.
If you aren't using a BlackBerry, uninstall its drivers.
Graphics don't render smoothly in Safe Mode. That's normal.
Your problem sounds a bit like mine I guess.. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5490807
Could it be that mavericks just breaks your graphics card?..
I'm using BlackBerry.
Well, Autocad update didn't help either.
donnywals,
Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd say that it's a problem with graphic card.
MBP slowed down and crashes
