Mavericks has ruined my perfect Macbook Pro,help!!!!!

I have a 2011 2.66GHz Macbook pro on Snow leopard that was verrrrryyy fast and stable until 2 weeks ago when i put mavericks on it,now it freezes and the little umbrella thing appears so often....Driving me crazy,is it coz I'm snow leopard?
I have 4Gb memory and i NEVER had a problem before putting Mavericks on 10.9.2
I jumped from Snow leopard to Mavericks,is that the problem?
I could do an unistall but dont wnt that hassle.
I use my Mac for live gigs and don't trust it anymore..
Help....

The minimum memory requirement for Snow Leopard was 1 GB, but Mavericks requires are least 2 GBs, so you've lost part of your appllication memory from the get go. I would install more RAM because Mavericks prefers more to less.
Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the
     computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager
     screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
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4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
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