Todd Getz

Q: 2010 MBP slow after Yosemite

After installing 10.10, my MBP 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM is dreadfully slow.  I have 200+GB of drive space left.  The slowness is many forms.  It boots noticeably slower, It launches apps slower, The apps themselves are laggy, and internet browsing is slower in safari and firefox.

 

An example of lag in apps would be Vienna when moving from one news article to another there I now get the pinwheel.  MS word lags behind my typing. This did not happen before the upgrade.

 

Internet pages now have several seconds of lag before they even start to load.  Even pages already visited.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 7:19 AM

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  • by Daz101,

    Daz101 Daz101 Oct 20, 2014 12:23 PM in response to category38
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:23 PM in response to category38

    First time i am posting but thought i had to, i had the same problem with 2012 MBP with 8GB RAM. Boot up time so slow compared to Mavericks and Safari was  slow and really annoying....I gave it two days to see if it improved - it did not. So my solution was time machine back to Mavericks and machine back up to speed. Hopefully Apple will sort it without having to replace hard drives...

  • by shpankey,

    shpankey shpankey Oct 20, 2014 1:37 PM in response to Daz101
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    Oct 20, 2014 1:37 PM in response to Daz101

    while the PRAM and SMC reset initially did the trick, it quickly went back to sloggy, sluggish Yosemite again.

  • by rshands,

    rshands rshands Oct 20, 2014 2:17 PM in response to rshands
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    Oct 20, 2014 2:17 PM in response to rshands

    Followup: ran a hard drive benchmark from https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackmagic-disk-speed-test/id425264550?mt=12

    Running Mavericks my score would be 85-100MBps and now with Yosemite it's 50-65MBps. Has anyone else run similar tests? My guess is that in Yosemite Apple has changed sata settings. This would affect both HDDs and SSDs but probably not PCI-e flash storage on newer Macs.

  • by shpankey,

    shpankey shpankey Oct 20, 2014 7:47 PM in response to rshands
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    Oct 20, 2014 7:47 PM in response to rshands

    seems my networking is considerably slower too now. i'm hosting a Plex server, and now accessing videos remotely is insanely slow compared to what it was on Mavericks. I've went from 8mps videos smooth as butter (could even go higher) to 1mps and it still is choppy and cuts in and out.

  • by ajuk63,

    ajuk63 ajuk63 Oct 21, 2014 4:42 AM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 21, 2014 4:42 AM in response to Todd Getz

    My Macbook Pro is now unusable..........pinwheeling on boot-up

     

    Macbook Pro 2010 RIP with Yosemite

  • by snig27,

    snig27 snig27 Oct 21, 2014 5:17 AM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 21, 2014 5:17 AM in response to Todd Getz

    I found that killing the transparency fixed a large part of my problems. Given the amount of noise on the web at the moment though, it seems this OS is kinda buggy.

  • by flaghand,

    flaghand flaghand Oct 21, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 21, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Todd Getz

    Following the steps that outlined on page 1 fixed the issues on my 2010 MacBook Pro (8 GB RAM) and on my late 2011 iMac.

    I also own Clean My Mac 2 and running that regularly helps too.

  • by lbald,

    lbald lbald Oct 21, 2014 6:30 PM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 21, 2014 6:30 PM in response to Todd Getz

    I have the same issues with my Macbook Pro 2010 15 GT330M 8GB RAM 256SSD. After clean install of Yosemite, I had graphic glitches and the whole system was very slow and laggy. That's why I am back to Mavericks, but now I can't use iCloud bei Pages and Numbers (iWork). I am very disappointed with Apple! iOS8 and Yosemite not the best Product anymore.

  • by asgowtham,

    asgowtham asgowtham Oct 21, 2014 8:56 PM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 21, 2014 8:56 PM in response to Todd Getz

    Had the same problem, finally realized that the FileVault Encryption was struck at 19%. Speed back up to normal after I disabled FileVault using terminal command - sudo fdesetup diable


    To check whether the FileVault is the culprit, go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> FileVault to see if encryption is in progress.. For me the blue bar was less than a quarter with status 'estimating time remaining'..


    Then open Terminal and type in: sudo fdesetup disable

    It will then ask for the admin password (to be it asked twice), then it was disabled... Back to normal life again..


    Here is my terminal log for reference:


    Last login: Tue Oct 21 23:05:13 on console

    Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status

    FileVault is On.

    Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 18.80

    Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status

    FileVault is On.

    Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 18.80

    Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status

    FileVault is On.

    Encryption in progress: Percent completed = 18.80

    Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ sudo fdesetup disable

    Password:

    Enter a password for '/':

    ..fdes.

    FileVault has been disabled.

    Gowthams-MBP:~ asgowtham$ fdesetup status

    FileVault is Off.

  • by lbald,

    lbald lbald Oct 22, 2014 1:16 AM in response to asgowtham
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    Oct 22, 2014 1:16 AM in response to asgowtham

    I don't think it's just FileVault problem, it's especially because of bad drivers for NVIDIA 330m. If I try to set the finder window to FULLSCREEN, I have big graphic glitches, the same thing with youtube video and fullscreen.

  • by kamalcha,

    kamalcha kamalcha Oct 22, 2014 7:24 AM in response to Stekor
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    Oct 22, 2014 7:24 AM in response to Stekor

    Reduce transparency solve my problem with MBP mid-2010, It's faster now.

  • by lbald,

    lbald lbald Oct 22, 2014 7:51 AM in response to kamalcha
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    Oct 22, 2014 7:51 AM in response to kamalcha

    reduce transparency - I tried it also, but it didn't help to me!!

  • by DearestClaudio,

    DearestClaudio DearestClaudio Oct 22, 2014 8:42 AM in response to asgowtham
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    Oct 22, 2014 8:42 AM in response to asgowtham

    Just checked the FileVault thing out for myself and lo and behold it was frozen halfway through the setup. I'll test things out now that it's disabled and see if that fixed things for me. Thanks for bringing that up, @asgowtham, I had no idea it even existed!

  • by CakemanPA,

    CakemanPA CakemanPA Oct 22, 2014 9:12 AM in response to Todd Getz
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    Oct 22, 2014 9:12 AM in response to Todd Getz

    From a terminal session I did "sudo fdesetup disable" this turned off FileVault and started the decryption process.  I am seeing some increased responsiveness.  I can actually see letters as I type them.  5 hours of decryption to go.  Apple never should have turned the default to FileVault to ON.

  • by DearestClaudio,

    DearestClaudio DearestClaudio Oct 22, 2014 9:28 AM in response to CakemanPA
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    Oct 22, 2014 9:28 AM in response to CakemanPA

    Disabling FileVault immediately had a huge impact for me. Virtually all the issues that I was experiencing are solved. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to make FileVault encryption opt-out rather than opt-in, but it's pretty safe to say that it was a pretty big mistake on their part.

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