Mac slow after installing Maverick

This is my experience with Mavericks.

1) After upgrading to Mavericks my 2012 Macbook Pro became so slow that I wanted to throw the **** thing out of my window.

2) Did a clean install of mavericks by formating by HDD. It was working great(Every thing was working fast ). Installed Google chrome , the computer again became slow.

3)Again did a clean install. This time I DID NOT install chrome. My Macbook Pro is as fast as its first day.

After using my laptop for over a week. Its still as fast .

For me it was Google Chrome that was causing the problem.

Hope this helps.

Hi Linc,

My MacBook Pro seems very slow following my upgrade to Mavericks. I followed your instructions above and received the following TextEdit message during your Step 1 above

Nov 18 05:37:08 Richard-M-Sowars-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Previous Shutdown Cause: -60

Thanks

RMSowar

I have a 2009 MacbookPro. Following solved my slowness issue after upgrade to OSX10.9:

Apple Logo (upper RHS) -> About This Mac -> More Info.. -> Storage (ensure atleast 30G free) - Disk Utility -> Select Macintosh HD -> Repair Disk Permissions

This will take a few minutes. In my case, the system was up and running in pre OSX 10.9 speed. Hope this helps.

Thank you very much!! It fixed many problems throughout my file system ... AND my system appears to be back to its' old self. Thanks again!!

Hi, yes this is great advice. I did the same, rapairing disk permissions but there were no problems there. So the next step is to click on the button next to it:

Apple Logo (upper RHS) -> About This Mac -> More Info.. -> Storage (ensure atleast 30G free) - Disk Utility -> Select Macintosh HD -> Verify Disk (and if that returns errors) -> Repair Disk

This solved my problem.

I also uninstalled Google Chrome just in case, as that seems to have some issues with Mavericks as well.

Now my 2011 MacbookPro is as good as new :-)

I actually repaired permissions several times. for some reason they kept getting corrupted.

I spent some time digging through the console after launching Chrome hung with a beach ball. The background google updater was noted on many consecutive lines. I am guessing that this process is trying to check for or downlaod updates and somehow getting hung in the process.

I've deleted Chrome manually, will finish the job with an uninstaller later.It's been hard to judge performance as time machine is doing its full back up since I did a restore to Mountain Lion, but things look promising.

Hey Linc,

Thanks for your post.

I followed your instructions for step 1 and this came out:

<Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 245

Any thoughts?

I also did a "Verify Disk" and it came out clean!

Thanks!!!

Folks, don't waste your time hunting down the cause of Maverick's performance issues .... it's a wild goose chase .... 50 different people will give you 50 different solutions or things to blame the performance on, ranging from your hard disk permissions to 3'rd party apps ... fact is you had all that stuff on there when you were running Mountain Lion and your performance was acceptable .. you upgraded to Mavericks and suddenly it takes 45 seconds and a beach ball just to close Text Edit .... Seriously this is a DAWG !!! Apple needs to patch this buggy slow piece of junk or I'll have to resort to Windows 7 ... ugh .... sad that I'm even considering this .... my machine is less than a year old and sometimes it takes 3 to 5 minutes just to open a browser tab or to open any of the iWork applications ...., eventually you get more then 3 apps running and you're looking at a 15 minute OS lockdown, you can't even get a reposnse from the apple menu to force quit them .... might as well power the thing off and forget about what you planned to work on becuase it's not going to get done ....

User who come here with issues represent a small percentage.

Users who have no issues do not post to troubleshooting support sites.

My 2009, 27 inch iMac runs great on Mavericks.

Have you tried any of the suggestions here by users who have much more experience in these matters than you?

The reasons users have had performance issues with their Mac running OS X Mavericks is that there could be plenty of software installed that needs to be updated to be compatible with Mavericks.

They may have software on their systems that is, generally! regarded as "malware" or "crapware" that was always causing some issue with their Macs even before the upgrade to Mavericks.

Some users have so much stuff in their system that a good chunk of it could be incompatible with a new OS X upgrade.

Each OS X iteration tends to use more and more system resources than previous OS X versions.

So, users' Mac system may need more RAM then their current systems have.

Hard drives can fail or become corrupt at any time, also.

It is a multiple of issues.

This doesn't mean that users that come here to, voluntarily, help, especially very advanced and seasoned users, like, for example, Kappy, do not know what they are doing.

Everyone's systems are different and the issues that are causing performance problems can vary widely from user to user.

I'm don't have amy malware, crapware or any 3'rd party junk on my Mac... Any Apps that I use, like Evernote, have already been updated, I have already done disk diagnostics. on and on and on .... and the prolems I am experiencing are with the Apple Apps like iWork, iTunes, Notes, REmonders, Keynote, Garage Band, Numbers, and the Finder, ... As far as a system configuration I am about as clean and Apple-centric as possible .... the issue is that the OS is performing very poortly and it cannot be blamed on out of date apps or crapware.

Have you updated to the latest versions of all of your Apple apps through software update or the Mac App Store?

I am curious, how much RAM is installed on your Mac?

How full is your hard drive?

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

When I refer to third party apps, in general, I am referring to any and all apps not developed by Apple.

Not, necessarily, third party "junk" apps.

Have you checked ALL of your third party software for Mavericks updates?

There is, definitely, some piece/s of software, in your system, that is causing you system to have this poor performance.

Have you already submitted a complete breakdown of your system using Etrecheck?.

Etrecheck is a small, harmless little app that complies all of your system's specs and installed applications.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Post its report here in another reply thread so that we have a complete profile of your Mac's hardware and installed software.

thewesternfront wrote:

Folks, don't waste your time hunting down the cause of Maverick's performance issues .... it's a wild goose chase .... 50 different people will give you 50 different solutions or things to blame the performance on, ranging from your hard disk permissions to 3'rd party apps ... fact is you had all that stuff on there when you were running Mountain Lion and your performance was acceptable .. you upgraded to Mavericks and suddenly it takes 45 seconds and a beach ball just to close Text Edit .... Seriously this is a DAWG !!! Apple needs to patch this buggy slow piece of junk or I'll have to resort to Windows 7 ... ugh .... sad that I'm even considering this .... my machine is less than a year old and sometimes it takes 3 to 5 minutes just to open a browser tab or to open any of the iWork applications ...., eventually you get more then 3 apps running and you're looking at a 15 minute OS lockdown, you can't even get a reposnse from the apple menu to force quit them .... might as well power the thing off and forget about what you planned to work on becuase it's not going to get done ....

How do you figure that it is affecting everyone? Many many millions have downloaded Mavericks and are not complaining here. You obviously have issues with your Mac or your install. You don't seem to wish to explore troubleshooting methods, I would have thought that would be the reason you visited these user to user troubleshooting forums, and on top of this, you are doing so by thread jumping someone else's thread and complicating THEIR troubleshooting. If you are serious about fixing your issues (I have none on my five Macs running Mavericks) then you should start your own thread and describe your symptoms clearly as well as what you have tried and your computer specs. Of course if you are simply here to rant and not attempt to fix your issues, then their is reall nothing that other users can do for you.

Best Of Luck and Cheers

Pete

The point is that I cut to the chase .... nobody who is having these performance issues is actually getting their problem solved ... there is really nothing much they can do to solve proformance issues that are inherent in the Operating System itself. It is not as if suddenly, after installing Mavericks, folks decided to download a ton of crapware or suddenly fill their hard disk for no apparent reason ... They are running on basically the same configuration as they were with Mountain Lion.

I'm trying to save people the trouble f putting their system specs up here and spend hours of fruitless troubleshootng chasing down a problem they cannot fix.

They bought a service, a package, in the form of hardware and software, from Apple. Why taht should cause them to spend hours and hours of their time troubleshooting a problem they spent $3,000 on is beyond me ....

If someone were to pursue all of the "suggestions" given from every well meaning user, they would end up in exactly the same spot as they started ..... If Mavericks is such a resource hog that my less-than-one-year-old Macbook cannot run it satisfactorily, then Apple has a problem.

thewesternfront wrote:

If Mavericks is such a resource hog that my less-than-one-year-old Macbook cannot run it satisfactorily, then Apple has a problem.

Then you have a problem, you mean. You are assuming that everyone running Mavericks is having performance issues. What is the source of your information?

Thanks

Pete

thewesternfront wrote:

The point is that I cut to the chase .... nobody who is having these performance issues is actually getting their problem solved ... there is really nothing much they can do to solve proformance issues that are inherent in the Operating System itself. It is not as if suddenly, after installing Mavericks, folks decided to download a ton of crapware or suddenly fill their hard disk for no apparent reason ... They are running on basically the same configuration as they were with Mountain Lion.

The trouble is these users also used the same method to update from 10.7, 10.6, 10.5 or earlier OS's & probably across models too. It's very easy to just use Migration Assistant to copy user data & apps onto a new Mac or use the installer which also leaves all that old software in place.

Do you want to run kernel extensions on an OS that they were never intended to run on? That can't make anything break can it?

Here is a classic example of someone convinced it is all Apples fault…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5537321?answerId=23924669022#23924669022

Note the 10 startup items that have been deprecated by Apple since 10.4.

Your 'service package' from Apple doesn't cover 3rd party software, so take it to them & see if they will clean it for you. Chances are they will just clean install, which is something so simple you can do yourself, just backup first.

Please, if you want help post a report if only to prove your Mac is clean & your claims against Apple have foundation.

If you have help for other users, post that too, 'take it to an Apple Store' is also valid advice.

I wouldn't continue to waste my time explaining the same thing over & over if I didn't have the occasional thank you from users who say this process actually helped.