Q: Upgrade to Mavericks slowed my 2008 mac book down

Looks like it.

Growl.

Growl Uninstall   

There are no silly questions, only silly answers.

- Uninstall Growl with the uninstaller that Eric (thanks) pointed you to.

- If you do not have the lexmark printer(s), you can delete them (all 5) from   MacintoshHD / Library / LaunchAgents folder.

- Do you use HP message center ? If not take it out at the same time.

- It looks as if you use VPN, can you confirm?

Lex

I agree that the virus software is probably the prime contributor to the problem but

   1.25 GB    Page-ins

    20 MB    Page-outs

the page-outs indicates that maxing out the memory to 4 or 6 GB will noticeably improve system and application performance.

OT

My original thought, exactly.

Hi Old Toad,

20 MB    Page-outs

only 20MB ?? Really.

You're right.  I had looked at linala's post just previously and was thinking about her page outs.  Good catch. Thanks.   

Thank you.i sent to a genius bar in between and they confirmed that more. RAM (8GB)would certainly help. Best,L.

I was finding that, after installing Mavericks:

• my computer (mid 2010 iMac) would not wake from sleep
• Time Machine backups were taking hours to run
• my computer would simply freeze in use (when trying to save and access files)

Uninstalling AVIRA corrected all of these problems.  I had updated to the AVIRA version for Mavericks (recently released) but it made no difference.  It was making my normally super-reliable iMac next to useless.

Its a shame because I have used AVIRA for years on my son's PC and it has been excellent on the Windows platform but I'll not go near it for the Mac again.

Yes, of course: there hundreds of threads here that explain that you should not install antivirus, antimalware optimizing cleaning degrafmentation protecting ........... tools at all in Mac.

Avira is a good antivirus app in Windows environment, but should not be in a mac!

Problem solved.

hi there! i had to uninstall avira too, silly me new apple-devices user thought i had to install av protection prior reading more about macs etc. anyway, apparently there are some remnants still left over, even though i uninstalled avira through the uninstaller. So do you know how to get rid of that? etrecheck gives me this:

Launch Agents:

          [System] com.avira.antivirus.scheduler.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

          [System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link

          [System] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist 3rd-Party support link

thank you very much in advance and sorry if i posted in the wrong thread, hope i didn't.

You can delete this one:

com.avira.antivirus.scheduler.agent.plist

You find it in

HD /Library / LaunchAgents/

delete it, empty the Trash.

That is all.

Maybe there is more to delete. Post the whole Etrecheck list.

Lex

Oh thank you very much LexSchellings!

I'll try that out right away, here is my last etrecheck so far, i know i have to configure timemaschine for start, an extrernal hard drive should be dispatched and soon to arrive. thanks again!

Hardware Information:

          MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)

          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,1

          1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores

          8 GB RAM

Video Information:

          Intel Iris - VRAM: 1024 MB

System Software:

          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 1 day 12:18:24

Disk Information:

          APPLE SSD SM0256F disk0 : (251 GB)

                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 250.14 GB (133.61 GB free)

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

USB Information:

          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Launch Daemons:

          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link

          [System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link

Launch Agents:

          [System] com.avira.antivirus.scheduler.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

          [System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link

          [System] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist 3rd-Party support link

User Launch Agents:

          [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

User Login Items:

          iTunesHelper

          uTorrent

          Android File Transfer Agent

Internet Plug-ins:

          WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 3rd-Party support link

          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

          WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 3rd-Party support link

          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link

Safari Extensions:

          Pinterest: Version: 1.0

          GmailThis: Version: 6.0

          AdBlock: Version: 2.6.18

Audio Plug-ins:

          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9

          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9

          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9

iTunes Plug-ins:

          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9

3rd Party Preference Panes:

          Flash Player  3rd-Party support link

          Java  3rd-Party support link

          WacomTablet  3rd-Party support link

Old Applications:

          None

Time Machine:

          Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

               2%          WindowServer

               1%          EtreCheck

               0%          mds

               0%          mds_stores

               0%          Calendar

Top Processes by Memory:

          205 MB          helpd

          90 MB          Mail

          82 MB          Safari

          57 MB          Calendar

          41 MB          ocspd

Virtual Memory Information:

          5.16 GB          Free RAM

          1.46 GB          Active RAM

          130 MB          Inactive RAM

          819 MB          Wired RAM

          1.10 GB          Page-ins

          42 MB          Page-outs