Mac Pro with OS mountain lion working very slow
I have a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.8.2. the mac is working very slow. It takes a lot of time to boot. Much longer than windows PC. Applications are also running very slow. How to speed up the mac and improve its performance? Plz help!!!
We're a workstation/tower forum.
Having more RAM has little or diminishing affect unless you are runnning apps that need and can use it (graphics being one, such as CS5 and later).
Many laptop owners and desktop like SSD for shorter boot (Mac always boots fast, quicker than Windows, use both).
If it were me I would
Backup of coure, TimeMachine and maybe one other method or set is useful, then do a clean install and reload the OS and let it do all the updates.
Most of the time after a lot of digging around and questions and answers, it gets down to "Did you install xyz" and a list of 3rd party programs, drivers and apps that you added that aren't part of the core OS or from Apple. Whether Norton (notorious) or some "cleaner" program or even something you need but which may not be compatible with or needed with OS X and Mountain Lion.
You can also set aside 100GB and run Windows natively as well as a guest VM OS.
Along with monitoring RAM, disk activity, I've seen RAM DIMMs that were 'loose' or not fully seated - even though Lion OS ran well the second that they tried to install Windows 7 on their MacBook Pro it had errors and could not complete. They had upgraded the RAM on their own. Just odd that OS X was that immune and insensitive.
But this is best off where others with the very same topic can be found in Mountain Lion and MacBook Pro forums. (we get way too many MBP in Mac Tower Pro) MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
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Is this really so, and if so, why has Apple in this way seemingly abandoned all those earlier loyal customers over the world who by investing their money in Apple´s Pro line of products like Mac Pro´s, have contributed so much in building the good reputation and economic ground for the development of Apple in becoming such a sucessful company? Even if Mac Pro still is a strong and competive computer for the time being, this discontinuation of softwaresupport for the big stock of sold Mac Pro computers world wide, remarks a crossroad from where in the long run, Mac pro´s will become useless and therefore also worthless in such an extent that heir owners once more have to make investments in new hardware from Apple, taking for granted that they find it still being a value in being trustful to the Apple line of computer products.
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John B -
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Hope someone can help me with it!
Thanks
JalcomJalcom wrote:... Firewire is not longer supported with Mountain Lion?...
Not true. External iSight works fine with my '09 Mac Pro and 10.8.4.
Jalcom wrote:... So I am wondering if something wrong happened ...
So it must have.
Jalcom wrote: ... help me with it!...
You have tried several good things, but there may be other suggestions from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 that you have not yet considered. Be sure to check more than one Apple app in more than one user account to help you pinpoint the cause of your trouble. Then you will know what to fix.
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M Wittawas wrote:
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Hi there,
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Today, it turned off again, there was a grey screen I'd never seen before telling me that my mac would restart because of a problem, and boy, it did. It wasn't the typical 'kernel panic screen' I saw rarely in the past. This happened at 3:30 pm my time. There's an "AvidBinIndexer crash log that is timed at 9:22 am, but none at 3:30 pm. (Note that I've never looked in the diagnostic reports directory so I may not know what I'm looking at).
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Now some background:
I run a Mac Pro 3,1 with 12 gigs of ram, an eSata card, ATI 5770 graphics card.
I have 4 internal and 6-7 external drives attached (4 esata, 1 firewire), 1-2 usb.
I upgraded to Mountain Lion on Jan 24 from Lion, however, this problem occured a few times before.
I had a USB backup drive that had volume problems, that I had to backup / reformat / repair, and so my first suspicion was that it was to blame. But no, today it rebooted and that drive wasn't connected. All other drives were however, and on. It occured just after I woke the computer from sleep.
Any ideas on what's up? What can I post here that could help someone diagnose this? Any things to try to further narrow down the issue?
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I was hoping if I can create a OS X version in pendrive from his laptop and use that to install and thuss also update OS on my Mountain Lion.
Kindly explain me in detail how to perform this.
I have already taken back up of all files and I am ready to total clean my laptop.
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Bootable USB Flash Drive – Diskmaker X -
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Specs are all good. There's enough disc space, memory etc... Not too many start up items...
But STILL... My system is BUGGY and VERY SLOW!
I've done a clean install and to no avail... I am constantly getting the spinning wheel with every action I take.
For now, all I can do is be extremely patient and not keep pushing the system... I let it do its thing.
Something is not happy.Thank you for the repy ETRESOFT!
Not sure why the screen shots aren't showing up? They even came up on iPad while viewing your post? Sorry about that.
Okay... After running your diagnostic program, (THANK YOU AGAIN) here's what we find...
It looks like there's a S.M.A.R.T. failure. (SEE BELOW)
I'm not sure if I should completely wipe the hard drive, attempt utility disk repair and reinstall everything? Would it benefit?
Last week when I was prepared to install Mountain Lion for the first time, I called APPLE Support and they advised me to do the following for a fresh & clean install:
Completely erase the iMac hard drive.
Download and Install a fresh copy of Lion
Set up TEMP USER as default ADMIN
Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Add a 2nd user Chipo1973 with ADMIN Rights
Migrate backup copy of Chipo73 from MacBook Pro onto user Chipo1973 / iMac
Delete original TEMP USER
Not sure if this caused any additional issues?
Thoughts?
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16 GB RAM
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ST31000528ASQ disk0 : (1 TB)
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iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
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OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
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1.1 % EtreCheck
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My 2010 Macbook pro is running slower and slower. I went to the Genius Bar about eight months ago, and they botted up from the disk, and let it go through and find what its process to find and fix what I think were "orphan" files. I cannot remember what they did, but when they did it, the speed on my Macbook picked up considerably.
I have since upgraded to Mountain Lion, but these problems do not seem related to that. My 500 GB HDD is about 80% full.First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
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Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long. -
Mountain Lion Running Very slow
I am running ML on a Mac Mini, 2011, i7, 8Gb RAM. Clean Install recently after similar problems with upgrade from Lion. Etrecheck report below. Any help would be very appreciated.
Hardware Information:
Mac mini - model: Macmini5,2
1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
System Software:
OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) - Uptime: 0 days 3:1
Disk Information:
WDC WD7500BTKT-40JKWT0 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
William Genske Mac Mini (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (505.36 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Logitech USB Receiver
LaCie LaCie Hard Drive USB 2 TB
disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
William Genske Backup March 20, 2012 (disk2s2) /Volumes/William Genske Backup March 20, 2012: 2 TB (828.95 GB free)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
General USB Flash Disk 16.03 GB
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[loaded] com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist
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iTunesHelper
smcFanControl
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Dropbox
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Flash Player
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http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/07/12-reasons-why-your-mac-runs-slow-with-mounta in-lion/
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IMac, Mountain Lion, iPhoto very slow
Hi forum!
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion v10.8.2 and I am using an intel dual core processor desktop iMac. 63.27 GB of space available. My last operating system upgade for this device. I have four iPhoto libraries on my HD. I have had no issues until yesterday. I decided to clean up my iPhoto Libraries (i.e. delete the garbage and reorganize the layout of where photos are found, I don't usual tag each photo, I just rely on iPhoto to keep things sorted by date created. I had iPhoto crash everytime that I tried to move things from one event to another or merge events, maybe this is just something that can't be done in this new version. I have done it in the past. I also realized that some of the older libraries are not so compatible with iPhoto v 9.4.1 which sounds normal and decided to not bother fixing these but just to back them up and deal with the application compatibilites issues later.
As I was exploring my library and trying different things, I had multiple crashes. I also tried to empty my trash to make more room on my HD. I only had about 2000 items in the trash and it was so slow emptying. It took over a half hour. Then I noticed that applications were also taking way too long to open with a few crashs. I guess I need to do some system clean up besides iPhoto libraries.
Any not too technical suggestions or not too complicated links to help me resolve my slow system. I am mostly interested in Apple solutions and not third party applications. I did check out iPhoto manager which lead me to Xcode and felt a little overwhelmed. Of course I found these solutions in threads that I read in the forum. I used the apple iPhoto Library FirstAid but I wasted a lot of time and still have some errors in the library. I have some empty events with sometimes no key picture thumbprint.
yours truly, CR19 hours and no replies, what is the point?
Humm, maybe I do not understand how the online Apple support/discussions work.
How can I delete this posted question?
CR
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