Slower Startup and Slower app launch time

Hi, ever since i upgraded to lion, my app launch times and laptop startup times have gotten much slower. Please Help!

Re:I have noticed more frequently since the 4.3.2 upgrade is a longer delay when I launch the "Settings" App.
(in response to Bruce Caucutt)
I have noticed the same response since I upgrade to 4.3.2 - I have reset the phone after shutting down all the Opened Apps, no change. Checking this out a bit more I found that the 4 sec. White screen only appears if you are Launching the Settings App first time, there after it appears almost instantly. It seems it just taking a little longer to launch in the first instance.

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10.6.1 Slow Startup and Shutdown

Did anyone notice the difference between the 10.6.1 startup and shutdown times and the 10.6 times ?
I had to do a clean install of 10.6 and ignore the 10.6.1 update to get back speed in startup and shutdown.
Is there anyway to solve this.
Thanks.

I had the same problems, and I figured out the cause. It seems that somehow the ownership of my root directory (/) wasn't assigned to the root account anymore, but to myself instead. This made the kernel prelinking fail since it requires that root is the owner. This is how you solve this after launching the Terminal app:
{quote:title=terminal commands}sudo chown root:admin /
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches{quote}
You'll have to enter your password after the first command.
Hope this helps someone, since it was really frustrating to have these slower startup/shutdown times for me.

Slow startup and password issue.

Hi all...
Happy new year...!
As a little christmas present for myself I purchased a Crucial M4 256GB SSD for my MacPro 4,1 (2.26GHz, 22GB RAM, 10.8.2). I'm a semi-pro photographer and wanted a bit of a speed up for my processing etc etc. So yesterday I cloned my existing system drive to the SSD with Carbon Copy Cloner. I then installed the SSD in the spare superdrive bay (my other 4 bays are used).
Just as a background my previous startup/shutdown times on this machine where quite slow averaging around 90s for startup and around 45s for shutdown. I had assumed that this was normal and was just a slow syetm HD issue. When I changed the startup disk to the new SSD and booted up the startup time did decrease but not significantly... its now exactly 59s whilst the shutdown times go down to around 30s. In use the speed of the OS is massively improved with applications and local file copying blazingly fast. I've a few friends who upgraded MacBook Pro's and others macs with SSD's and their startups are around 10-15 seconds....!!! I'm not overly bothered by the slow startups/shutdowns but I am curious as to what might be causing these delays. In testing today I deleted everything unecessary from my user account startup items, disabled various apps and checked the /library/startupitems for anything that shoudnt be there. After a couple of hours trying I cant find anything that is effecting the startups and am lost. I'll likely just accept it and move on as in use the SSD is impressive but if anyone has any ideas it'd be appreciated!
A second thing that has happened is that whenever I try to delete/modify/move an app I am now asked to type in my user password. I have tried repairing permissions, checking the permissions of my .Trash folder etc etc but as of yet nothing has worked. Any ideas...??
Many thanks and Happy New Year yet again.
Richie

The traditional way an Operating System deals with "deleted" files is to remove ONLY the Directory information and simply add the data blocks to the free pool. Those "deleted" data blocks are not cleared.
This works in rotating drives because:
1. The logical block size is the same or larger than the physical drive block size.
2. Rotating magnetic media are block-for-block re-writable.
In SSDs physical blocks are much larger "superblocks", and re-writing a portion of a superblock is a slow and difficult read-modify-write operation. In addition, since the OS did not notify the drive what data are no longer needed, deleted data continue to be carefully maintained and re-written by the drive. Soon every write operation becomes a read-modify-write, and performance deteriorates.
In my opinion, this nearly-full condition is likley to cause drive failure. Something more than wishful thinking is required.
Apple enables TRIM on the drives they install directly. They do not do so for third-party drives, but that is likely because those drives have not been tested by Apple.
I have been using a very small SSD as a boot drive for a while, and periodically consolidate free space followed immediately by erasing free space with a third-party utility. I believe this has kept me out of trouble. My son has been using SSD in his laptop and doing nothing for maintenece, and he has killed two drives in a year.
Trim Enabler utility from groths seems to be working, and makes things simple. Your mileage may vary.
if I notice significant performance slips
You added a much lower latency drive and startup times did not improve significantly. Much of the time required for startup is needed for memory testing. The rest is largely attributable to disk Read/Write times. What more evidence do you need?

Need help troubleshooting slow startup after installing apps

I'm relatively new to OSX (though not new to computer administration and Unix/Linux) and I need some guidance troubleshooting my slow booting Macbook.
I've got a vanilla Macbook that can installed with 10.5.5 and I've since done the upgrade to 10.5.6. I didn't have any problems until I started installing some heavier apps like the Adobe CS3 suite and MS Office (I know, I should get iLife, but I have an available license of Office.)
Since doing these installs, it has noticeably, but not drastically, slowed the start-up time of my mac. The slow down starts in the blue screen part of startup and is most noticeable as the dock and the menus load.
(I've read about Searchlight indexing, which would make sense since these are both big suites, but it's had several hours of run time to do this and many reboots and it's still a problem.)
I have my suspicions that Adobe is mostly the culprit here, but I'm not sure where to look for start-up logs and configuration info. Are there any apps out there like Start Up Control Panel (www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) for OSX? Are there any places that would be a good place to start looking? I basically want to try to make sure that only the necessary stuff is loading at start-up and and none of that "helper app" crap that was so common in windows environments.

Francine gave you excellent advice about tracking down your problem. Once that's accomplished, see these:
Switching from Windows to Mac OS X,
Basic Tutorials on using a Mac,
MacFixIt Tutorials,
MacTips, and
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition.
Additionally, *Texas Mac Man* recommends:
Quick Assist.
Welcome to the Switch To A Mac Guides,
Take Control E-books, and
A guide for switching to a Mac.

MBP hos slowed down and some apps crash often

Problem description:
MBP slow and some app crash often. Ran Etrecheck. Here is the report. How do I fix this?
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated January 26, 2015 at 9:48:17 AM CST
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.
Click the [Adware] links for help removing adware.
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,5
1 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery Health: Check Battery - Cycle count 897
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Time since boot: 4 days 15:49:22
Disk Information: ℹ️
Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 disk0 : (250.06 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 249.20 GB (95.18 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.devguru.driver.SamsungComposite (1.4.14 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
/System/Library/Extensions/ssuddrv.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.devguru.driver.SamsungACMControl (1.4.14 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
[not loaded] com.devguru.driver.SamsungACMData (1.4.14 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
[not loaded] com.devguru.driver.SamsungMTP (1.4.14 - SDK 10.5) [Support]
[not loaded] com.devguru.driver.SamsungSerial (1.4.14 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
[killed] com.apple.accountsd.plist
[killed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist
[killed] com.apple.bird.plist
[killed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[killed] com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
[killed] com.apple.cloudd.plist
[killed] com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist
[killed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
[killed] com.apple.coreservices.uiagent.plist
[killed] com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert.plist
[killed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesagent.plist
[killed] com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
[killed] com.apple.pluginkit.pkd.plist
[killed] com.apple.printtool.agent.plist
[killed] com.apple.rcd.plist
[killed] com.apple.recentsd.plist
[killed] com.apple.sbd.plist
[killed] com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent.xpc.plist
[killed] com.apple.secd.plist
[killed] com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy.plist
[killed] com.apple.spindump_agent.plist
[killed] com.apple.syncdefaultsd.plist
[killed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
23 processes killed due to memory pressure
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[killed] com.apple.AssetCacheLocatorService.plist
[killed] com.apple.awdd.plist
[killed] com.apple.cache_delete.plist
[killed] com.apple.coresymbolicationd.plist
[killed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[killed] com.apple.diagnosticd.plist
[killed] com.apple.emond.aslmanager.plist
[killed] com.apple.GSSCred.plist
[killed] com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
[killed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesagent.plist
[killed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesd.plist
[killed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist
[killed] com.apple.installd.plist
[killed] com.apple.MobileFileIntegrity.plist
[killed] com.apple.nehelper.plist
[killed] com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
[killed] com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
[killed] com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
[killed] com.apple.sandboxd.plist
[killed] com.apple.softwareupdate_download_service.plist
[killed] com.apple.softwareupdated.plist
[killed] com.apple.spindump.plist
[killed] com.apple.systemstatsd.plist
[killed] com.apple.tccd.system.plist
[killed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
[killed] org.cups.cupsd.plist
26 processes killed due to memory pressure
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist [Support]
[running] com.motive.userAgent.plist [Support]
[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support]
[running] com.motive.systemDaemon.plist [Support]
[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Support]
[failed] com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper UNKNOWN (missing value)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
SpeechSynthesisServer Application (/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks /SpeechSynthesis.framework/Versions/A/SpeechSynthesisServer.app)
fuspredownloader Application Hidden (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/.FUS/fuspredownloader.app)
HP Product Research Application (/Library/Application Support/Hewlett-Packard/Customer Participation/HP Product Research.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 3.5.6f4 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 [Support]
npMotive: Version: 1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 [Support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
LogMeIn: Version: 1.0.961 - SDK 10.7 [Support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 16.0.0.287
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.16 [Support]
LogMeInSafari32: Version: 1.0.961 - SDK 10.7 [Support]
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 8.1.0 [Support]
CouponPrinter-FireFox_v2: Version: 1.1.10 - SDK 10.5 [Support]
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
ContentManager: Version: Unknown [Support]
RocketEngine: Version: Unknown [Support]
UploadManager: Version: Unknown [Support]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
MacFUSE [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 249.20 GB Disk used: 154.01 GB
Destinations:
Data [Network]
Total size: 2.00 TB
Total number of backups: 68
Oldest backup: 2013-11-11 18:18:23 +0000
Last backup: 2015-01-24 01:33:43 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk size 249.20 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
 8% WindowServer
 2% iTunes
 0% AppleSpell
 0% awacsd
 0% coreduetd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
331 MB iBank
112 MB Finder
86 MB iTunes
82 MB Safari
77 MB Mail
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
39 MB Free RAM
1.03 GB Active RAM
988 MB Inactive RAM
655 MB Wired RAM
28.65 GB Page-ins
2.21 GB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Jan 25, 2015, 06:44:54 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunes_2015-01-25-184454_[redacted].cpu_resourc e.diag [Details]
Jan 25, 2015, 03:40:11 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunes_2015-01-25-154011_[redacted].hang
Jan 25, 2015, 01:28:06 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/pdftopdf_2015-01-25-132806_[redacted].crash
Jan 25, 2015, 11:48:24 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunes_2015-01-25-114824_[redacted].cpu_resourc e.diag [Details]

The report shows you don't have enough RAM required to run all of the apps you run at the same time. Yosemite takes way more RAM than what OS X used to take.
To solve the problem do either one of these:
restart your mac from time to time (every night for ex).
Use less apps at the same time.
upgrade to 8GB of RAM if your Mac allows it

Troubleshooting slow startup of JavaFX app

I made a simple Hello World example from the Efxclipse tutorial on JavaFX. It takes 12 Seconds to start. After searching the internet I found:
Deploying JavaFX Applications: Troubleshooting | JavaFX 2 Tutorials and Documentation
I can pass "-Djavafx.autoproxy.disable=true" or "-Djavafx.autoproxy.disable=false" or "-Djavafx.autoproxy.disable=nonsense" to make is start fast.
a) Is the parameter documented correctly? Because whatever I pass after the "=" does not matter. However, if I pass "-Djavafx.autoproxy.enable" then it starts slow.
b) Why do I need the parameter at all, if the build.xml already contains
<manifest>
<attribute name="JavaFX-Feature-Proxy" value="None"/>
</manifest>
? Does ant not work correctly?
c) I downloaded also the JavaFX Sample applications from oracle (javafx_samples-2_2_40-windows). While SwingInterop.jar starts fast, the BrickBreaker.jar takes the same amount to start. If oracle does not even manage to come up with a jar that starts fast I think I have a serious deployment issue.
Any solutions to this?
Best,
Gunter

Hello All,
Thanks for giving advise and solution.
I logged a job with oracle support and they confirmed that this is a bug in Solaris. Below is reply from oracle.
"Thank you for the details. This is indeed a bug as OS level, a Solaris bug and it is best described in note: Oracle Database Startup And SGA Value Change Takes A Very Long Time To Complete (Doc ID 1475621.1). The bug is currently under investigation and it is being worked on. "
Although a workaround solution also applied to our env and its working fine now.

Has anyone noticed with IOS 4.3.2 a longer "Settings" app launch time?

I have noticed more frequently since the 4.3.2 upgrade is a longer delay when I launch the "Settings" App. Even when I have shut down all background apps and clear memory, I still get a blank white screen for sometimes 4 seconds (an eternity in iPhone terms) between the time of pressing the Settings button and before the Settings panel appears. Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas on what could cause this?

Re:I have noticed more frequently since the 4.3.2 upgrade is a longer delay when I launch the "Settings" App.
(in response to Bruce Caucutt)
I have noticed the same response since I upgrade to 4.3.2 - I have reset the phone after shutting down all the Opened Apps, no change. Checking this out a bit more I found that the 4 sec. White screen only appears if you are Launching the Settings App first time, there after it appears almost instantly. It seems it just taking a little longer to launch in the first instance.

MacBook Pro (mid 2010) - Slow Startup and Initial Load of Apps after Mavericks Install

Hello everyone,
Long time Snow Leopard user here. I've been absolutely, 100% thrilled with my MBP's performance / speed since mid 2010. Since installing Mavericks I've noticed two things:
1. Initial on boot load times seem much slower
2. The first time you open an app (Safari, even TextEdit) is far slower than in Snow Leopard.
Now granted, once the computer has been on for about 5 minutes, and once you've had an application open for 1-2 minutes, than performance is okay once again. But it seems that quite literally everytime you do "anything" for the first time since the computer has been turned on you run the risk of a spinning beachball and an extended wait. This simply never happened in Snow Leopard.
I'm not a computer science major but I do understand that when you do something for the first time since a reboot it will need to load new files into the RAM which takes time. However, I've been using this computer since 2010 and have never experienced this behavior / speed / delay, etc... something seems fundamentally different.
For example, even just opening finder, and navigating to the Applications folder results in sluggish behavior the first time. Also, anytime you first click the top menu bar in an application you run the risk of a beachball.
It doesn't seem like a failing hard drive because I can read/write large chunks of data one an app is finally loaded. It's just initially loading the app takes quite literally 10-20 times longer than Snow Leopard. It seems like perhaps Mavericks itself, the core of the new OS was perhaps installed in a bad sector of the HD, but none of my other files are on bad sectors... if that makes sense. Again - I'm not a computer science major so I'm largely just making things up
It also seems as if multitasking and switching between several open apps has seen a decrease in performance. Could it be that perhaps Mavericks RAM management is superior to Snow Leopard, but only if there is a TON of RAM to go around? Could it be as simple as Macs with only 4GB installed should not be allowed to even install Mavericks?
Does this sound normal for Mavericks considering I have a C2D processor, a non SSD, and only 4GB ram? I know those specs are "outdated" for 2014, but keep in mind these were the specs that I've always had and with Snow Leoapard I was consistently thrilled with the speed of the computer.
I suppose my question is: should my strategy be to simply turn the computer on, get a cup of coffee and let everything load and maybe even have my frequently used apps load on startup, etc... and carry on as normal? Does something seem off? Should I invest in a new SSD / RAM upgrade? I know the upgrades couldn't hurt, but the issue is that I was perfectly content until upgrading to Mavericks
I've tried booting into OS X Recovery mode and using the Disk Utility. I've tried Safe Mode. I've included a "EtreCheck" report below. I'm open to any ideas / suggestions.
Thanks!!
Hardware Information:
 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
 MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1
 1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
 4 GB RAM
Video Information:
 NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
 OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:10:48
Disk Information:
 Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 disk0 : (250.06 GB)
 EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
 Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 249.2 GB (228.46 GB free)
 Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
 MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Information:
 Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
 Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
 Logitech USB Receiver
 Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
 Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
 Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
 Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
 Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
 Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Launch Daemons:
 [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
 [System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
 [System] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
 [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
 [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
 None
Internet Plug-ins:
 FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.152 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
 Flash Player: Version: 11.9.900.152 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
 QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
 JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Outdated! Update
 AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 3rd-Party support link
 Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Audio Plug-ins:
 BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
 AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
 AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - 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
Old Applications:
 None
Time Machine:
 Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
 4% WindowServer
 1% EtreCheck
 0% mds
 0% mds_stores
 0% airportd
Top Processes by Memory:
 111 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
 94 MB Finder
 57 MB Dock
 53 MB SystemUIServer
 53 MB EtreCheck
Virtual Memory Information:
 1.64 GB Free RAM
 1.42 GB Active RAM
 314 MB Inactive RAM
 390 MB Wired RAM
 316 MB Page-ins
 0 B Page-outs

Wish I could be of some help, but I'm having similar issues on my mid 2011 macbook pro with 8 GB ram. It's very frustrating. I haven't worked on a computer this slow since the early 90's. Even simple things like signing in to this site bring up the beach ball for maybe ten seconds. When opening up apps I often have to wait minutes, and often end up force quitting when they hang. I'm using force quit a dozen or more times a day, when it used to be very rare.
I don't know if it's Mavericks. I installed a new hard drive in November, but the problems really started getting bad since the latest upgrade.
It's not just opening apps. If I have an app open in the background and switch to it I have similar issues. Watching a simple video is often accompanied by stalls and delays - which is really bad as I'm often using the laptop to edit video. It's become unuseable for work.
Perhaps the most frustrating is clicking on a link, only to find Safari decides to complete a previous scroll that it had paused. The page jumps down, and sometimes I end up clicking on a link I didn't want. Then I have to wait for THAT spinning beach ball before I can go back to the previous spinning beach ball.
It can take up to ten minutes to restart. I've tried everything I could find on these pages so far, and nothing has worked.
I thought maybe it was something I've done (and perhaps it is), but I keep seeing others with similar issues.

Slow Mavericks and problem system launch daemons

Like some other users here I've experienced a big slowdown since installing Mavericks.
I ran EtreCheck (good app!) and I see that I have several failed Apple daemons. I don't know what they do but I guess this is not a good thing.
Can anybody shed any light on these failed daemons and what I can do to fix them? Are they likely to be part of the slow running problem?
cheers all!

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|timed? ?o' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal 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 Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Reset the System Management Controller.
Run Software Update. If there's a firmware update, install it.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a portable computer, check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement.
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. See whether there's any change.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, 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 View menu or 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, andIdle at the bottom of the window.
Select the Memory tab. What value is shown in the bottom part of the window for Swap used?
Next, select the Disk tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in andWrites out.)
Step 4
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
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 by pressing the key combinationcommand-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.

Slow startup and shutdown

Hi.... I use a Toshiba satellite a505-s6980 so when I start it up or shut it down it takes from 10-15min to do it ..... and not just that everything seems to be slower than ever ... I ran a lot of tune-up programs but no use .... I did the check for badsectors ..Nothing ...... One of the results of one test (event viewer) sayed Critical about this boat problem(boat duration was 321654ms and isdegradation false) and there are a lot of events having these IDs (100,101,103,108,200,203,300,303,351,302,500,501,109,110)) .... and in the performance test the rate was 2.5 for disk data transfer rate , 3.4 for gaming graphics , 4.1 for graphics and 4.7 for both memory and processor. I hope anyoneto give me an answer for this problem.
Thanks a lot .
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Then it's best to start over by restoring the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media. See the section Recovering the Internal Storage Drive, starting on p. 60 of the User's Guide.
Satellite A500 Series User’s Guide
That will replace everything on the hard drive. So you need to backup important files and reinstall added applications.
-Jerry

VERY slow startup and shutdown, CD stuck

I've been looking all over these forums for some help with this problem, but every solution I find seems to make the problem increasingly complex.
I have an iMac that I got in 2010 running OS 10.6.8. I've been using a Seagate GoFlex drive with Time Machine, and noticed the other day that it started making a clicking sound and wouldn't back up anymore, so I downloaded SeaTools in order to run a diagnostic on it. When I restarted my computer to finish installing SeaTools, it got stuck on the blue screen while shutting down, so I held the power button to turn it off, and then turned it back on. It took a long time to turn on (hung up on the blue screen again), and once the desktop came to life, I was unable to type or click on anything for several minutes.
I installed some updates, thinking that might help, but when the computer restarted after installing them, it got stuck again on the blue screen, so I manually turned it off. When I turned it back on, it hung on the blue screen for at least 10 minutes, and I finally just held the power button to shut it down and try restarting in safe mode, which is where it is now.
Another thing that seems related is that there was a CD in the drive that had been there for a few days, with an icon on the desktop. Suddenly, the desktop icon is no longer there, and I can't get it to eject, though I can hear the it spinning when I wake it from Sleep or when I press the eject button. When I try to view Serial-ATA or Disc Burning in the System Profiler, it gets stuck on a spinning wheel and stops responding.
Disk Utility also gets stuck on "Gathering Disk Information" so I can't do anything there, either. Between this and the CD issue, it seems like a lot of suggested fixes for the boot/shutdown problem are not possible to do.
Anyone have any insight or ideas?

Never mind, I figured it out! In case anyone has the same problem, Seagate Diagnostic was the culprit (should have realized right away, oops). More info (and directions for fixing) here:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/GoFlex-GoFlex-Desk-GoFlex-Pro/How-can-I-un-install- Seagate-Diagnostics-for-Mac/m-p/55775

Slow backup (and spotlight problems) after time machine restore

Hi All,
After having some shaky moments with my macbook pro's internal hard drive, I have now installed a new one. I am running the latest version of 10.6.8.
The machine is running fine after a restore from my Time machine backup, but there are a few problems:
1) Time machine is now making a new backup - it looks like it wants to do a complete backup, which is ok as I have the space. However, after about 30 mins it has completed 156k and is now running at about 1k a second (or less).
2) Spotlight is reindexing, but appears to be stuck on "Estimating indexing time".
3) I tried opening mail, and it said it had to convert my mailbox - it got part way through the number of messages and stopped. I force quite, I'll try that one again later.
Any ideas for 1) and 2) above? I can't see any odd looking messages in the console...
Cheers

So... thought I'd update this since it may help someone else later...
The time machine backup completed fine in the end - it looked like it wanted to do a complete backup but I think it just did a delta in the end.
The spotlight reindex ran for about another 6 hours, judging by the console messages.
However, now I'm trying to run mail - and it's stuck on importing the mailbox - it got to 14157 of 57904 and stopped there. The "time remaining" is increasing by about 5 minutes every minute....
I've seen the following message in the console, which I also saw while it was trying to do the spotlight index last night:
NSDataMessageStore: couldn't find body
Anyway, I'll let it run and see what happens...

Firefox will not open until Windows Firewall has opened at startup. A slow process and slows Firefox in Starting. Can this be corrected?

Since installing Firefox the start up time for the computer has greatly increased as Windows Firewall has to be started before Firefox can open. Very annoying and can this problem be corrected?

Firefox does this for security purposes. I do not recommend attempting to "fix" this.
To boost starting time, you can try a Firefox preloading software.
WARNING: Always use caution when downloading content from the internet. I will take no responsibility for any damage caused by a download. Download at your own risk!

Disabling slow windows and between apps. animations

I know this topic was discussed already but I think there's no clear point yet -
I’m using Mac Book Pro for software development and quite often need to maximise windows and switch between maximised applications. The delays of maximising and sliding animation is really annoying - has anyone actually tried to disabled it on Maverick?
I’ve tried to use different terminal scripts but they all don’t seem to help. TotalSpaces can disable switching between apps but not maximise and its not free - any ideas?

I agree. Finder is all wacky in Mavericks "House of Bugs" - , 3 solutions i know of depending on earth - moon alignment - weather - and what ever mood your mac is in.
1- use onyx to clean out cache, saved application etc and so on. it helps
2- if your boot drive has lots of folders and files within folders ... deep, try slimming it down, .. avoid going 4-5-6 levels deep with lots of files. That was confirmed by an ex-apple engineer using new 2013 mac pro .
3- delete Flash and re install it.
Oh, maybe peek into System Preferences and turn off items in "Accessibility" - not sure on this, but i know it can cause issues.
I feel your pain dawg .. hope that helps ...
2012 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon * 96 GB RAM * Quadro K5000 * OS X 10.9.2 * All SSD RAID-0

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