Macbook Pro got slow after upgrade to 10.9.5 (Mavericks)

how does your system perform if you boot into SafeMode?

I was having similar odd problems but what what appears to have fixed it for me was this post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6442018

which suggest to reset your PRAM and then your SMC,

my iMac was taking forever to login to my AD network account but after following the steps at that post my issue appears to be resolved.

Good Luck!!

If the machine is bound to a network directory server, unbind from it and test.

I had this same problem this morning on a Mac Mini 2.7Ghz i7 and I think I've resolved it per Linc Davis' suggestion.

The Mac was bound to an active directory domain. I upgraded from 10.9.4 to 10.9.5. Soon after logging on following the update I saw opendirectoryd using ~300% CPU in Activity Monitory. I noted the following in the opendirectoryd.log:

2014-09-18 13:42:51.620877 EDT - 21.2630.2633, Node: /Active Directory/US, Module: ActiveDirectory - __odnode_copy_record_block_invoke: 10000 n/a

2014-09-18 13:44:58.941243 EDT - State information (some requests have been active for extended period):

Sessions: {

21 -- opendirectoryd:

Eventually opendirectoryd would relaunch and the process would start again, pegging the CPU. I let it sit for a while in case it was being caused by spotlight indexing the disk; when I came back to it I believe it was kernel_task that was using 4 GB of memory and the machine was even more sluggish while opendirectoryd was busy doing whatever it was doing.

I removed the Mac from the Active Directory domain. I removed the .plist files from /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/Active Directory and /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory. I then re-bound the Mac to the domain. Since then opendirectoryd has been behaving and I don't see the "(some requests have been active for extended period)" message in opendirectoryd.log any more.

I wanted to bump up logging on opendirectoryd to try to get a better idea what was going on, but I tried using odiutil from terminal however that command is no longer available. My brief searching did not uncover a way to increase the logging level for opendirectoryd in 10.9.

so i sort of spoke too soon, I'm not running anything but my Mac does appear to be hitting 95% cpu usage (64.72% user and 30.55% system) when I sort in activity monitor I see that opendirectoryd is at 691.3% cpu usage, consuming 77 threads? The next closest process is kernal_task at 17.1%

i've tried killing it and it just spins itself back up. The iMac appears to be functioning fine, but switcing between applications shows there is considerable lag.

more: I noticed that when I unplug my ethernet cable from the back of the mac my CPU usage drops down to idle again :-/ so it's my network? yes this machine is bound to the network, I'm logged in with my network uid 😟

I gave up on 10.9.5, I performed a TimeMachine Restore to 10.9.4, I'll wait till 10.9.5.1

Hi from Russia!

I observe same behavior with my MB Pro Retina.

After login to corporate domain controller, opendirectoryd begins excessive consumption of CPU resources and memory. This activity can eat all the RAM, and then the computer dies.

In /var/log/opendirectoryd.log i see many sections like this

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921673 MSK - 497.2461 - Client: Mail, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921697 MSK - 497.2461 - ODNodeCreateWithNameAndOptions request, SessionID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, Name: /Contacts, Options: 0x0

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921741 MSK - reaping connection '/Contacts:search:82C06CA0-EF0C-4E3C-8AE9-1C92A7B756C0'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921762 MSK - 497.2461, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - tracking connection '/Contacts:search:D1950F76-D4E6-427A-947E-34736F02A8AB'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921778 MSK - 497.2461, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - initiating reconnect for '/Contacts:search:D1950F76-D4E6-427A-947E-34736F02A8AB'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921804 MSK - 497.2461, Node: /Contacts - node assigned UUID - 46FF31F2-9B7C-4AEF-8D1D-E0D4A97189EE

2014-09-18 13:59:20.921876 MSK - 497.2461, Node: /Contacts - ODNodeCreateWithNameAndOptions completed

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922068 MSK - 497.2462 - Client: Mail, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922114 MSK - 497.2462 - ODQueryCreateWithNode request, NodeID: 46FF31F2-9B7C-4AEF-8D1D-E0D4A97189EE, RecordType(s): dsRecTypeStandard:People,dsRecTypeStandard:Users, Attribute: dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName, MatchType: CompoundExpression, Equality: CaseIgnore, Value(s): (|(dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailAddress=discover@new.itunes.com)), Requested Attributes: dsAttrTypeStandard:Picture,dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailContacts,dsAttrTypeStandard: EMailAddress,dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName,dsAttrTypeStandard:AppleMetaNodeLocat ion,dsAttrTypeStandard:AppleMetaRecordName,dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordType,dsAttrT ypeStandard:GeneratedUID,dsAttrTypeStandard:JPEGPhoto, Max Results: 2147483647

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922133 MSK - 497.2462, Node: /Contacts - queuing request to connection - '/Contacts:search:D1950F76-D4E6-427A-947E-34736F02A8AB'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922150 MSK - 497.2462, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - predicate - no mapping for attribute 'dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailAddress'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922160 MSK - 497.2462, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - predicate - no mapping for attribute 'dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailAddress'

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922277 MSK - 497.2462, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - skipped node '/Active Directory/FORS' could not open

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922359 MSK - 497.2462, Node: /Contacts, Module: search - ODQueryCreateWithNode completed

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922511 MSK - 497.2463 - Client: Mail, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922523 MSK - 497.2463 - ODNodeRelease request, NodeID: 46FF31F2-9B7C-4AEF-8D1D-E0D4A97189EE

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922564 MSK - 497.2463, Node: /Contacts - ODNodeRelease completed

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922597 MSK - clearing all node authentication connections

2014-09-18 13:59:20.922600 MSK - Disconnecting /Contacts:search:D1950F76-D4E6-427A-947E-34736F02A8AB

I applied the recommendations described hereinabove - reset sms and pram. so I dropped the network settings... And i have no idea about what it is

I forgot to mention that I saw the same behavior where the opendirectoryd would no use high CPU and memory usage when the network was disconnected.

I'm curious if others find that unbinding and rebinding to the domain resolves the issue.

For those of you who are still experiencing this issue you should report it to Apple as a bug: https://bugreport.apple.com/

You must be a Registered Apple Developer to file bugs via Bug Reporter.

I had the same problem this morning on an iMac bound to AD. @GregD7 had the solution. Things are running smooth again. A couple of things to note:

1. I had trouble even logging in after reboots because opendirectoryd was hogging resources. I found that if I did a hard reboot and logged in quickly, before the network authentication kicked in, the log in went fine, otherwise if I waited too long, the log in process would just hang.

2. Once logged in, it can be hard to even get to the System Preferences to do the Unbind while opendirectoryd is going berserk. I brought up ActivityMonitor first and just killed opendirectoryd every time it would become active. This gave me enough resources to do the unbind.

3. If you need to know how to Unbind, it's here: Mac OS X 10.6 Server Admin: Unbinding from the Active Directory Server

4. I took a screen shot of the ActiveDirectory configuration dialog just in case.

5. My /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/Active Directory did not have any .plist files

6. I did not have permission to access /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory so went through terminal and did a sudo -i, then deleted the one .plist file.

Big thank you to @GregD7!

in my case this actions haven't effect

Same here. Thanks for the detailed steps, @GregD7 and @tjamison (I had only the AD.plist file to delete also), but once I bound back to AD, opendirectoryd shot back to the top of the CPU list. Looks like I'll have to restore down to 10.9.4 until this is fixed. Glad I found this page, though!

just for reference I'm on an iMac12,2 with 10.9.4 and I closed all my applications prior to updating to 10.9.5 where i discovered the High Cpu usage in opendirectoryd