Hey guys.
I was wondering if there was anyone around whom has a Mac Mini from late 2014 like I do that installed the High Sierra update on it, and if you would be able to share your thoughts? Does it perform okay, are there things I will benefit from doing the update, are there any bugs?
Thanks!
Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Hi John. Thanks, I did read the advice and I was happy to update to High Sierra directly to my MacHD. However, when I came back to my Mac hours after I left it to finish the upgrade, I found that after logging in my Mac was very slow. The below picture explains why:
A process running with 17.46 GB of memory?! That's nearly 5 times the size of my RAM! (4 GB) The process name being call "ccloud". Well, I rebooted my machine and thankfully that high process was gone, but now I find that when my computer is in an idle state (i.e, no apps running, all that shows is the desktop and activity monitor) the memory usage is at 2.40 GB, where as the idle state in OS X Yosemite was around 1.70 GB memory usage.
I am going to do a reboot then run a Ertecheck report for you to review if that's okay?
Thanks again!
EtreCheck version: 3.4.6 (460)
Report generated 2017-10-19 20:54:45
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Runtime: 2:37
Performance: Excellent
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Problem: Other problem
Description:
Higher idle RAM usage after install of macOS High Sierra.
Hardware Information: ⓘ
Mac mini (Late 2014)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]
Mac mini - model: Macmini7,1
1 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-4260U) CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Handoff/Airdrop2: supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
iCloud Quota: 4.96 GB available
iCloud Status: 4 pending files
Video Information: ⓘ
Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1536 MB
SONY TV 1360 x 768 @ 60 Hz
Disk Information: ⓘ
APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 disk0: (500.11 GB) (Rotational)
[Show SMART report]
EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB
(disk0s2) <not mounted> [CoreStorage Container]: 499.25 GB
(disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
USB Information: ⓘ
USB30Bus
Apple, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information: ⓘ
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Virtual disks: ⓘ
Macintosh HD (disk1 - Journaled HFS+) / [Startup]: 498.89 GB (420.76 GB free)
Physical disk: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
System Software: ⓘ
macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A405) - Time since boot: less than an hour
Gatekeeper: ⓘ
Mac App Store and identified developers
Clean up: ⓘ
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.lastpass.LastPassHelper.plist
~/Library/Application Support/LastPass/LastPassHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/LastPassHelper
Executable not found!
One orphan file found. [Clean up]
Kernel Extensions: ⓘ
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (5.1.28) [Lookup]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (5.1.28) [Lookup]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (5.1.28) [Lookup]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (5.1.28) [Lookup]
/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.getdropbox.dropbox.kext (1.5.1 - SDK 10.10) [Lookup]
System Launch Agents: ⓘ
[not loaded] 9 Apple tasks
[loaded] 185 Apple tasks
[running] 94 Apple tasks
System Launch Daemons: ⓘ
[not loaded] 37 Apple tasks
[loaded] 190 Apple tasks
[running] 102 Apple tasks
Launch Daemons: ⓘ
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 36f2fce - installed 2017-10-12) [Lookup]
[not loaded] com.apple.installer.cleanupinstaller.plist (? 1963bf56 0 - installed 2017-10-19)
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.startup.plist (Shell Script 700b9385 - installed 2017-10-14) [Lookup]
User Launch Agents: ⓘ
[loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2017-10-14) [Lookup]
[failed] com.lastpass.LastPassHelper.plist (? 66bea022 0 - installed 2015-01-12) [Lookup] - ~/Library/Application Support/LastPass/LastPassHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/LastPassHelper: Executable not found!
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist (? 4d64d81a 9846402b - installed 2017-10-19) [Lookup]
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist (Oracle America, Inc. - installed 2017-10-14) [Lookup]
Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ
FlashPlayer-10.6: 27.0.0.170 (installed 2017-10-18) [Lookup]
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-10-03)
Flash Player: 27.0.0.170 (installed 2017-10-18) [Lookup]
nplastpass: 3.1.61 (installed 2015-01-12) [Lookup]
Unity Web Player: UnityPlayer version 4.6.2f1 (installed 2015-02-01) [Lookup]
Safari Extensions: ⓘ
[enabled] uBlock - Chris Aljoudi - https://chrismatic.io/ (installed 2017-10-14)
[enabled] LastPass - LastPass - https://lastpass.com/ (installed 2017-10-14)
[not loaded] Open in Internet Explorer - Parallels - http://www.parallels.com (installed 2015-01-15)
3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ
Flash Player (installed 2017-10-12) [Lookup]
Time Machine: ⓘ
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ
4% WindowServer
2% kernel_task
0% fontd
0% LaterAgent
Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ
466 MB kernel_task
97 MB mds_stores
63 MB garcon
49 MB WindowServer
48 MB CalendarAgent
Top Processes by Network Use: ⓘ
Input Output Process name
12 KB 5 KB mDNSResponder
5 KB 8 KB apsd
7 KB 2 KB cloudd
1 KB 354 B netbiosd
0 B 64 B SystemUIServer
Top Processes by Energy Use: ⓘ
7.04 WindowServer
3.88 mds
1.26 trustd
1.24 trustd
Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ
1.94 GB Available RAM
793 MB Free RAM
2.06 GB Used RAM
1.17 GB Cached files
0 B Swap Used
Software installs (last 30 days): ⓘ
Oracle VM VirtualBox: 5.1.28 (installed 2017-10-14)
Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2017-10-14)
WhatsApp: 0.2.5863 (installed 2017-10-14)
Mystery Case Files - Madame Fate: 1.0 (installed 2017-10-15)
Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2017-10-18)
Python: (installed 2017-10-19)
Install information may not be complete.
cloudd is the process that syncs your Mac's content with all the services that use iCloud, and there are many of them. That always takes time upon upgrading macOS, and it will settle down when those services are finished. That amount of time is unpredictable because it depends on the amount of data that needs to be uploaded and your available Internet speed, among other factors.
There is nothing wrong with your Mac's RAM usage. At the time of the EtreCheck report, the swapfile was not even required. A Mac with a traditional rotating hard disk drive (as yours has) can become slow when macOS needs to offload some RAM usage to its storage, but that's not happening with yours. On a Mac with solid state storage, it's hardly noticeable.
It's very easy to determine if a Mac's performance is being constrained by available memory. Please refer to Use Activity Monitor on your Mac - Apple Support. If the "Memory Pressure" graph is frequently "red" your Mac would benefit from additional memory. If not, it won't. If you wanted to install more memory refer to the Memory Upgrade Instructions in About This Mac > Memory.
Please read Upgrading macOS without fear. It is intended to address all those questions.
I'm running High Sierra on a Mac Mini 2010. No problems installing, runs just as nice as Sierra.
Does macOS High Sierra run okay on Mac Mini 2014?
