Mavericks made my MacBook Pro w/ Retina Slow Very Slow.

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Hey There,I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2.3 GHz - Late 2012 Edition). I installed Mavericks on the launch date and it caused performance issue. My Macbook is now running very very slow. Even the RAM usage is increased.Before Mavericks it was around 4+ GB Free Ram Everytime but now it&#x27;s almost 2 - 3 GB only. Also the speed is very slow. Shut Down Speed is also slow.Please help me, I am seriously annoued right now. I paid 2500$ for this ****? 😟Thanks

John Galt · Answer

Due to Mavericks&#x27; new memory compression algorithms the specific amount of memory used at any given time is no longer as valid a metric as it has been in the past. It is normal to see more RAM being used than with previous versions of OS X. A Mac does not benefit from RAM that remains unused, and Mavericks is designed to use all it can before resorting to using the swapfile. 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&#x27;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/etrecheckEtrecheck 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&#x27;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":Safe Mode or "Safe Boot" is a troubleshooting mode that bypasses all third party system extensions and loads only required system components. Read about it: Starting up in Safe ModeStarting your Mac in Safe Mode will take longer than usual, graphics will not render smoothly, audio is disabled on some Macs, and some programs (iTunes for example) may not work at all.Merely starting your Mac in Safe Mode is not intended to resolve the problem, it&#x27;s to observe its performance without certain additional components.To end Safe Mode restart your Mac normally. Shutdown will take longer as well.

AkshayJain · Answer

Hello John,Thanks for the input. For now here is the EtreCheck Report:Hardware Information:          MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro10,1          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores          8 GB RAMVideo Information:          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB          NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MBAudio Plug-ins:          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0          AirPlay: Version: 1.9          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3Startup Items:          ChmodBPF - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF          tap - Path: /Library/StartupItems/tap          tun - Path: /Library/StartupItems/tunSystem Software:          OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:28:8Disk Information:          APPLE SSD SM256E disk0 : (251 GB)                    EFI (disk0s1) &lt;not mounted&gt;: 209.7 MB                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 200.14 GB (123.33 GB free)                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) &lt;not mounted&gt;: 650 MB                    BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 50 GB (4.82 GB free)USB Information:          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host ControllerFireWire Information:Thunderbolt Information:          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_busKernel Extensions:          com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt          (0.0.67)          com.protech.NoSleep          (1.3.3)          com.wavtap.driver.WavTap          (0.4.0)          foo.tun          (1.0)          foo.tap          (1.0)Problem System Launch Daemons:          [loaded] de.novamedia.nmnetmgrd.plistProblem System Launch Agents:Launch Daemons:          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist          [not loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist          [loaded] com.anchorfree.ajaxserver.plist          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist          [loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist          [loaded] com.sharpcast.xfsmond.plist          [loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist          [loaded] com.tunnelbear.mac.tbeard.plistLaunch Agents:          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist          [loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist          [failed] com.protech.NoSleep.plist          [loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist          [loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist          [loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist          [loaded] de.novamedia.VodafoneDeviceObserver.plistUser Launch Agents:          [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist          [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.akshay.plist          [loaded] com.macupdate.desktop5.scanner.plist          [loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist          [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plistUser Login Items:          uHD-Agent          GrowlHelperApp          uHD-Agent          iTunesHelper          NoSleep          Jing          WDSecurityHelper          SpeechSynthesisServer          Google Chrome          Dropbox          Cinch          Google Drive          WDDriveUtilityHelper          Amazon Cloud Drive          Caffeine          Vodafone Mobile Broadband          Music Manager3rd Party Preference Panes:          Box Sync          Flash Player          FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)          GrowlInternet Plug-ins:          AdobeAAMDetect.plugin          AdobeExManDetect.plugin          AdobePDFViewer.plugin          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin          Default Browser.plugin          Flash Player.plugin          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin          googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin          npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin          o1dbrowserplugin.plugin          QuickTime Plugin.plugin          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin          Unity Web Player.pluginUser Internet Plug-ins:          BlueStacks Install Detector.plugin          Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin          iGetterScriptablePlugin.plugin          Picasa.pluginBad Fonts:          NoneTime Machine:          Time Machine not configured!Top Processes by CPU:               4%          WindowServer               4%          EtreCheck               1%          MailTab for Gmail               1%          fontd               0%          BBLaunchAgent               0%          Google Chrome               0%          MenuTab for Facebook               0%          hidd               0%          storeagent               0%          DropboxTop Processes by Memory:          205 MB             Google Chrome          197 MB             Finder          188 MB             WindowServer          147 MB             Google Chrome Helper          147 MB             com.apple.IconServicesAgent          115 MB             MenuTab for Facebook          90 MB              App Store          90 MB              Dock          74 MB              Dropbox          66 MB              Amazon Cloud Drive Sync ServiceVirtual Memory Statistics:          3.07 GB            Free RAM          3.62 GB            Active RAM          228 MB             Inactive RAM          1.08 GB            Wired RAM          1.23 GB            Page-ins          316 KB             Page-outs

John Galt · Answer

Safe Mode results?Remember your Mac will take longer to start up and shut down while in "Safe Mode", and graphics will be "choppy".