MBA mid-2013 wakes from sleep every minute on Mavericks

Ahhh.... that could be it.

I used to run Avast - I am now running Avira for anti-virus.

That could have been the trigger that fixed it...

Anyone else tried that?

I do not have Avast installed and still have the issue. I use ClamXav for anti-virus. I had the issue even after a clean install (MBA 2013).

Apple need to fix this. It never happened on previous OS X releases, only with Mavericks. It is an OS bug.

What puzzles me is that once in a while the systems deep sleeps, even with all SW running as usual.

I agree with Hans Kohlmayer ... this did not happen in previous releases of OS X.

I don't believe this issue is linked to any 3rd party software. I have the "self-waking" issue and I don't use Google Drive or Dropbox; my AV is Norton.

Applying the prior mentioned "band-aid" of:

sudo pmset -n standbydelay 604800

has avoided the self-waking issue for on my 2013 Air (i7/128GB). There is slight penalty for battery but it is rather small (~5% drop per 24 hours).

I agree with most opinions here---essential system bits such as power management should never fall prey to third party software like this... the bug is in OS 10.9. Until Apple offers a solution, workarounds listed above intended only to keep Maverick's sanity in check.

Confirmed that uninstalling Avast fixes this problem for me. After doing so, I reset my delay using:

sudo pmset -b standbydelay 600

100% upon opening computer both this and yesterday AM. Thanks for the suggestion.

I had Avast too; I've uninstalled it and we'll see if that fixes the problem. A few people here say they have the problem without Avast, but does anybody have this problem who doesn't have some kind of AV installed?

I did not and do not have any AV software installed and did not remove any software to fix the issue.

Removing Avast seems to have fixed the problem here, too.

Does anybody care to link to this discussion over at the Avast user forums?

I have the same problem as well on my MBAir mid -13. But this issue started only a few weeks ago, and I've owned my mac since early summer, so I'm thinking that it might be a third-party software-issue after all?

I'm trying to think which of the apps that I've installed that could have caused it, and Avast is one of the later additions. Also, NoSleep. I've uninstalled both just now. I had no issues with Dropbox.

Could someone tell me exactly how I go about this "sudo pmset -b standbydelay 600" procedure? If it's necessary to do that command? I'm not very good at using the terminal (I know how to open it, that's about it). Thanks!

MarkNew, you should uninstall Avast. As many have mentioned, this tends to fix the problem. If you want to tweak some terminal settings you can but it won't actually fix the problem. To do that, you paste that command into terminal.

Thanks so much Jason!

MarkNew, as jasonlancaster instructed you should try to uninstall avast antivirus. This seems to solve the problem for most users. If it doesnt work for you there are two more things to try, first one is deleting SystemConfiguration folder and the other one is preventing your computer from hibernating. You can execute both solutions from a program called Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Just start the Terminal and type in this commands in the window:

sudo rm -r -f /Library/Prefrences/SystemConfiguration

this will ask you for your password ... try rebooting your mac and if your sleep problems are still not solved try running next command in Terminal:

sudo pmset -g 604800

this will also ask you for your password but you dont need to reboot your mac.

I hope Apple will soon solve this problem.