Very sluggish performance since installing Mavericks

As with many other people, my MacBook is running really sluggishly, ever since I installed Mavericks. It is running much slower than it was with OSX Lion that I had before. This is a 2010 Macbook with 4 GB RAM. I talked to someone this morning with an even older MacBook that is just flying along with Mavericks. Something must be wrong with mine.

An example of sluggishness is that after clicking on a menu item, it may take several seconds for the drop-down menu to appear.

Another problem I'm having, which I believe is a known problem that is presumably being addressed, is that my Apple Bluetooth mouse is unable to perform scrolling by dragging my finger along it, in some apps, some of the time. Sometimes apps recover the ability to do scrolling.

I tried disabling App Nap on all apps I keep running most of the time and it made no difference. I've looked at Activity Monitor but there doesn't seem to be any unusual load on the system. I looked at Console and there are a lot of messages of many kinds, but at the moment no new activity. However, at times there was rapid generation of an "Invalid display" message, with jillions of them present in the console list. I suspect these may relate to the fact that I use a second monitor off and on during the day. Right now the second monitor is plugged in, and no such messages are occurring, but the log shows a lot of them earlier. They look like this:

11/14/13 11:58:56.366 AM BBEdit[202]: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x2b3c49d5

11/14/13 11:58:56.399 AM BBEdit[202]: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x2b3c49d5

11/14/13 11:58:56.615 AM BBEdit[202]: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x2b3c49d5

11/14/13 11:58:56.832 AM BBEdit[202]: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x2b3c49d5

11/14/13 11:58:57.116 AM BBEdit[202]: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x2b3c49d5

These are all from BBEdit, but earlier there were lots from Excel and Word too.

I ran etrecheck (downloaded from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck) and got the following. There are a lot of failed items in there, and for some of them I think I need to uninstall or disable certain things, but for others I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.

Hardware Information:

MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)

MacBook - model: MacBook7,1

1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM

Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0

AirPlay: Version: 1.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3

Startup Items:

daemonic-mysql - Path: /Library/StartupItems/daemonic-mysql

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 6 days 6:44:30

Disk Information:

TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Mac OS HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (273.4 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H

USB Information:

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

KINESIS CORPORATION KB700M Kinesis Freestyle for Mac

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Kernel Extensions:

com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.2)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.AOSNotificationOSX.plist

[failed] com.apple.installd.plist

[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.barebones.authd.plist

[not loaded] com.barebones.bbedit.plist

[not loaded] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist

[failed] com.edb.launchd.apache.plist

[loaded] com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist

[failed] com.starfield.backupservice.plist

[failed] org.openafs.filesystems.afs.plist

Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] org.tigris.scplugin.launch.plist

User Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-ted@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist

[failed] com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist

[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.tedtoal.plist

[failed] it.infn.lnf.network.AFSBackgrounder.plist

User Login Items:

FamiliarHelper

Mail

Preview

BBEdit

Microsoft Word

SCToolbarButton

Google Drive

Dropbox

Calendar

Safari

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Flip4Mac WMV

MacFUSE

Internet Plug-ins:

Default Browser.plugin

DirectorShockwave.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

Unity Web Player.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Picasa.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Time Machine:

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: NO

Volumes being backed up:

Mac OS HD: Disk size: 499.25 GB Disk used: 225.85 GB

Destinations:

Time Machine Backups [Local] (Last used)

Total size: 999.86 GB

Total number of backups: 32

Oldest backup: 2012-12-31 12:24:11 +0000

Last backup: 2013-11-13 04:59:39 +0000

Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 999.86 GB > (Disk used 225.85 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU:

11% WindowServer

3% Safari

3% EtreCheck

2% BBEdit

2% hidd

1% sysmond

1% SystemUIServer

1% Activity Monitor

1% Microsoft Excel

0% Dropbox

Top Processes by Memory:

102 MB systemstats

98 MB WindowServer

86 MB Finder

78 MB BBEdit

70 MB Microsoft Excel

41 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent

41 MB Mail

41 MB Console

37 MB Safari

33 MB Dock

Virtual Memory Statistics:

159 MB Free RAM

753 MB Active RAM

646 MB Inactive RAM

842 MB Wired RAM

21.33 GB Page-ins

828 MB Page-outs