Mavericks is slow frequent beach ball

Problem description:
I have a Macbook Pro 2011 with 4Gb of ram running Mavericks and i have a lot of lagging response and frequent appearance of the beach ball. I have run etrecheck.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated January 26, 2015 at 12:58:13 PM CST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Technical Specifications)
  MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
  1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core
  4 GB RAM Upgradeable
  BANK 0/DIMM0
  2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
  BANK 1/DIMM0
  2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
  Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
  Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
  Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 282
Video Information: ℹ️
  Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
  Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
  OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Time since boot: one day 18:40:58
Disk Information: ℹ️
  APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
  EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
  Macintosh 750 Gb HD (disk0s2) / : 749.30 GB (295.49 GB free)
  Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB
  OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H 
USB Information: ℹ️
  Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
  Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
  Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
  Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
  Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
  Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
  Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
  /Library/Extensions
  [not loaded] com.caiaq.driver.NIUSBMaschineControllerDriver (2.6.0 - SDK 10.8) [Support]
  [loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.2.50 - SDK 10.8) [Support]
  [loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.2.50 - SDK 10.8) [Support]
  /System/Library/Extensions
  [not loaded] com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio (1.6 59644 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
  [not loaded] com.motu.driver.MicroBookAudio (1.6 59644 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
  [not loaded] com.motu.driver.PCIAudio (1.6 59644 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
  [not loaded] com.motu.driver.USBMidiKext (1.6 59644 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
  [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Support]
  [running] com.motu.MOTULauncher.plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Support]
  [running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist [Support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
  [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Support]
  [running] com.sophos.common.servicemanager.plist [Support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
  [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist [Support]
  [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
  None
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
  LogitechHarmony: Version: Unknown
  OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 [Support]
  Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
  Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: Unknown
  OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.3 [Support]
  AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
  FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
  AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
  DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 [Support]
  Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.296 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 16.0.0.287
  iPhotoPhotocast: Version: Unknown
  QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
  Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
  AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
  JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 71 Check version
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
  DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video> [Installed]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
  DivX  [Support]
  Flash Player  [Support]
  Java  [Support]
  Native Instruments USB Audio  [Support]
  Perian  [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
  Skip System Files: NO
  Mobile backups: ON
  Auto backup: YES
  Destinations:
  Macbook Pro BU 122613 [Local]
  Total size: 500.10 GB
  Total number of backups: 9
  Oldest backup: 2014-04-01 22:47:45 +0000
  Last backup: 2014-10-01 17:35:40 +0000
  Size of backup disk: Excellent
  Backup size 500.10 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      21% Mail
      7% syslogd
      4% WindowServer
      0% AppleSpell
      0% sysmond
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
  503 MB Mail
  86 MB InterCheck
  64 MB Finder
  64 MB SophosScanD
  56 MB Safari
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
  87 MB Free RAM
  1.22 GB Active RAM
  1.34 GB Inactive RAM
  1.02 GB Wired RAM
  1.48 GB Page-ins
  23 MB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
  Jan 24, 2015, 06:17:55 PM Self test - passed

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    Informations matérielles : ℹ️
      MacBook Pro (13 pouces, mi-2012) (Caractéristiques techniques)
      MacBook Pro - modèle : MacBookPro9,2
      1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU : 2-core
      4 GB RAM Extensible
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      La santé de la batterie : Normal - Comptage de cycles 890
    Informations vidéo : ℹ️
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      Color LCD 1280 x 800
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  • Itunes in external HD slow with beach ball on only certain songs

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    I've just had exactly the same problem and it coincided with me moving my music folder to a new external hard drive (it was previously on another smaller drive and also upgrading from Panther (10.3.9) to Tiger (10.4.9). I don't think it's a drive problem and name length issue as during the 4 hours last night I was trying to sort this out by moving around folders, consolidating etc etc the actual albums that were getting lost were changing! At one point I transferred all of my music back to the internal drive (to rule out the external drive issue) and using the same library, pointed at the new folder and it all seemed to work OK. However, after a bit more fiddling I started to lose links to albums from there as well. I then looked at the iTunes Music Library.xml file and it seemed that those that were missing had paths to the other external drive still. No matter what I did, I could not get it to rebuild the library with all music in the same location. In the end I trashed the library and dragged all of the music back into iTunes again, which seems to be working OK at the moment - but all of my music is now on the internal drive taking up space whereas I really want it on the external drive again. In the process I have obviously lost all my playlists (why can't I just drag them back from my iPod as they're all on there, but I can't seem to be able to copy them back into iTunes which is a pain?).
    I'm still going to try to get to music back onto the hard drive when I get some more time and have noticed in another thread that some people actually have the library on their exetral drive as well, whereas mine has always been in the iTunes folder on the internal drive. How to I move it to the external drive as well - just pick up and drop? Would this help?
    I notice that everyone with this problem has OS 10.4.9 - is this just a coincidence? Did your problems coincide with the update as well?
    Neil

  • Mavericks mail hanging (spinning beach ball)

    Since upgrading yesterday the Mail application is constantly freezing (spinning beach ball) and the only option is force-quit. Sometimes happend when I try to draft a new mail, sometimes when I read and email and sometimes on its own when I come back to my computer.
    I can make it happen 100% of the time when I try toselect  Mail > Preferences
    The dialog never comes up and I get the spinning beach ball.
    Date/Time:       2013-10-24 04:09:07 -0700
    OS Version:      10.9 (Build 13A603)
    Architecture:    x86_64
    Report Version:  18
    Command:         Mail
    Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
    Version:         7.0 (1816)
    Build Version:   1
    Project Name:    Mail
    Source Version:  1816000000000000
    Parent:          launchd [233]
    PID:             5822
    Event:           hang
    Duration:        15.48s
    Steps:           15 (100ms sampling interval)

    Same problem. Tried everything. I've looked a lot of places and tried a lot of things- and logged nearly 15 hours of time with the highest level of Apple support and got nowhere. Even had them harvest my data logs and uploaded all of that.
    Then I found a post on another messageboard that did it for me. Take a look at your:
    username/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist
    Instead of being a few KB (as it should have been), mine was 40 MB with tens of thousands of duplicated Hotmail account entries.
    I knew all of my mail settings, so I just trashed this file and relaunched the app, then manually added back all of my mail account settings via the mail interface.
    Poof- no more issues. No Mail hang. No preference files launching and eating up enormous CPU and RAM. No problems whatsoever. Hope it helps you all too.
    Note: this does not eliminate messages, only settings. So the fix takes all of 5 minutes if you remember your mail server settings.
    Cheers.

  • Why hiMac has suddenly slowed with frequent beach ball

    Hi
    I am having terrible troubles with my iMac.
    About a month ago the hard drive become pretty full (only about 5GB to spare). I transferred off my iPhoto library and now have about 100GB free. At about the same time I downloaded the Aperture trial and it spend about 2 days processing the old iPhoto library non-stop.
    Since then - with the exception of a week or so when everything seemed fine - the computer has been behaving very unreliably, with frequent beachballs even doing the simplest things such as using Safari. I've had to just turn it off a number of times as the beachball has not seemed to go away.
    A couple of times when the computer booted it briefly (5-10 secs) displayed a white screen with small black squares (about .5cm*.5cm) sprinkled around it and random look grey splodges in places.
    After reading a number of forums I have tried the following to no avail:
    Verifying/resetting permissions
    Resetting the PRAM and holding down shift on startup
    Creating a new user account (same beachball problem)
    Checking the disk and hardware by holding down D from the install disk (no problems found)
    Downloading and reinstalling the latest 10.6.5 combo update (it didn't install due to an error - I tried twice)
    Checking activity monitor for free internal memory (same problems even with at least 1GB free) or processes hogging the CPU - nothing apparent
    Deleting various caches
    Making sure all software updates are installed
    Using Clicktoflash
    The computer is practically unusable now. It reminds me of when my internal hard drive broke on my Powermac G4 but I can't be sure as I haven't lost any data and the hardware check didn't identify any problems.
    BTW when I installed Snow Leopard I installed it on top of the original Leopard.
    I see a number of options:
    1. Reinstall Snow Leopard from scratch and try using Migration Assistant to gather in what I need
    2. Reinstall Snow Leopard and just copy over what I need from the Time Machine disk and hope I don't forget anything.
    3. Reinstall Snow Leopard and use the Time Machine backup (though this would presumably just copy over any flaws which are causing the problem)
    Any thoughts?
    Thanks in advance for your help! I really appreciate it....

    After the HD has been replaced I would recommend doing a clean install and then restore from TM. I would also recommend prior to installing the new HD to use a second external HD and make a bootable clone of our internal HD. Redundant backups are safer. I'll tell you a recent war story.
    Recently I decided to do a clean install and wanted to restore from TM. I did my install and restored from TM only to find my TM copy was corrupt! Because I had a bootable clone I was about to boot from it and then restore from that drive therefore not losing my data and applications.
    To create a bootable clone you need two things:
    1. External HD (don't use the TM drive!!!!!)
    2. Software, either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. CCC is free but offers no support, SD is $28 but offers support. I prefer SD myself and have found the support excellent on the rare times I've needed it.

  • Slow mail = beach ball spins with every click in every field.

    This happens since installing Snow Leopard: every click in mail takes 5 or 10 seconds for anything to happen. Reaction was always instant before. Anyone know of any fix?
    Examples of when this happens:
    When I click on "Forward."
    When I click "New Message" to pull up the blank email form.
    When I click on the "To" line.
    When I click on any other field to compose and send an email.
    That is, when I click on anything.
    Thank you for any advice.

    Some other post (which one?) contained the resolution: Go under the "Mailbox" menu and select "Rebuild" for each account. Count on it taking a while.

  • Frequent hanging, black screen on waking, beach balling

    Hi there
    I've been having tons of issues with my MBP hanging on waking, especially if TM was busy, but frequent beach balling during the day for no apparent reason.
    There was a lot of talk of faulty logic boards, and my heart sank. I was on the verge of getting rid of my computer.. then I read that Sophos may play a role. It seems that Sophos and TM compete for the exernal drive for backing up causing hanging and black screens.. I just wanted to put on record for others who may have a similar issue, uninstalling Sophos has returned my MBP to trouble free computing, and great performance again. If you have Sophos and the symptoms listed, try going without - I wish I'd tried it sooner!
    Cheers and good luck - Francois

    Humm... May have something to do with the straight HDMI connection, others have also complained about similar problems using a straight HDMI connection.
    1. You tried a different HDMI cable...? (you didn't say)
    2. What model is your Acer and what other inputs (DVI, VGA, etc.) does it support...?
    I run dual DVI Samsung monitors on my Mac Mini and have not experience any problems. One is on the Apple Supplied HDMI to DVI adapter and the other in on a Kanex Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter.
    No a power outage does not equal an SMC reset. If fact, it can have just the opposite effect and throw the System Management Controller off kilter.

  • Frequent 10s beach balls! -- terminal, firefox, FCP, ....

    Since a clean install of Leopard on a dual 2.0 Ghz G5,
    I've been experiencing frequent beach balls of 10-15 seconds.
    It happens when running Final Cut (pressing play on a clip),
    when searching in Firefox (Command - F), and when doing tab
    completion in a terminal window.
    A 100% repro:
    - open terminal window
    - type cd D <TAB>
    In normal bash behaviour, this would immediately ring the bell, because there are two directories ~/Documents and ~/Desktop.
    In Leopard, this freezes the terminal, giving me a beach ball after 5 seconds that lasts for about 10 seconds. Then I get the bell.
    Anyone else getting this? It's very annoying.

    holy crap i removed all the windows truetype and font fork (eh?) files from my system and fontbook now loads.
    i had a feeling it was font related, but things are looking up...
    will post more findings...

  • Spinning beach ball woes on 27 inch iMac

    We have a mid 2010 27 inch iMac (and also a late 2010 13 inch MacBook Air, from which I am writing this post). About 6 months ago it was starting to get spinning beach balls, which I attributed to not having updated the OS (then 10.7). Having upgraded the Air to Mavericks with success, I also upgraded the iMac to Mavericks, and the beach balls got much, much worse, rendering the thing nearly unusable. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the issue is, particularly because the Air, which is about the same vintage, is working great under the same setup. Can someone who has not been staring at this problem for 6 months help?
    Here's what I've got:
    As I mentioned, mid 2010 27-inch iMac, 1TB hard drive, about half-full, backing up to a 2 TB Time Capsule.
    We have two wifi networks to cover the whole house; one is integrated with the cable company's provided router and sits in the basement, and the other is the Time Capsule hooked up to the cable company's VoIP router upstairs. Because you cannot use the Time Capsule to extend an existing network if it is not an Apple network, I resorted to setting each wifi network up independently (separately connected to ethernet). My Air navigates this just fine, as do our iPads/iPhones, and I don't notice a speed difference between the two networks (assuming I have equally good reception wherever I am).
    Notably, the Time Capsule seems to randomly stop broadcasting wifi every now and then (at intervals of a few days to a couple weeks), which requires a restart to get it working again. (This could be totally unrelated.)
    The iMac was at 10.7 when the beach balls started; upgrading to Mavericks made the slowness/beachballs worse. As I noted, Mavericks did not cause any trouble with the Air.
    The beach balls seem to coincide with a complete stall in everything the computer is doing. After the stall ends, the computer can be fairly speedy, so it's as if it pauses for several seconds to a minute or so to think very hard, and then goes back to its business.
    There is usually a slight improvement if I shut down and boot up again, but it gums up pretty quickly.
    Here's what I've done:
    Started with 4GB RAM; added another 8 (total 12) after this all started. Equally bad before and after.
    Stared at Activity Monitor and Console for long periods of time while watching for beach balls to try to detect a pattern.
    In Activity Monitor, memory pressure is fine (esp. now that I added 8 GB), no swap used. The two worst offenders under CPU usage seem to be kernel_task or WindowServer, but they are not always monopolizing the CPU at the times when it is stalled.
    In Console, the main two patterns seemed to be a frequent WindowServer "updates forcibly disabled" error, and what seemed like a constant browsing for wifi connections even though the computer was already connected to wifi. However, I couldn't figure out what either of these meant or what might be done to fix them.
    Used disk utility, repaired permissions, verified disk, etc. - everything was ok, although some permissions were repaired.
    Used third-party utilities, Onyx and iDefrag, to try to verify disk and clean things up. No significant problems detected, and no improvement.
    Various other methods of cleaning up -- eliminating old software or files that aren't being used, emptying trash, taking extra files off the desktop, etc. In particular, having read that Mail might have issues handling Google accounts, I eliminated a heavily-used Google account from Mail and got a separate, lighter-weight third-party app to handle that account. That did seem improve things at first, but we seem to be back to slowness and beach balls again.
    Final, last-ditch effort: backed up and then erased hard drive and (after another Disk Utility verify - still fine) did a clean install of Mavericks.
    It took several attempts to download the installer using the Time Capsule network (kept stalling); switched to the other (non-Apple) wifi network and it downloaded and installed fine.
    However, after the clean install, although it was not nearly as slow as before, amazingly, I still had spinning beach balls and hanging without having installed anything other than the OS.
    I made several attempts to get into the backup to selectively reinstall files. Could not mount backup using Time Capsule -- option-clicking and selecting "Browse Other Backups" did not actually get me to the other backup. Using Migration Assistant, could not get the backup to load, or the loading was taking an inordinately long period of time, so I gave up. (Also, every time I tried to quit Migration Assistant to try to discover the problem with the backup loading, it hung and I had to hard-restart.)
    So, since the clean install did not seem to fix the problem, and I was starting to worry about not being able to get to my backup, I have gone back to just restoring from the Time Capsule. It's telling me this will take over 200 hours.
    The one thing I haven't tried is shutting down the computer, lugging it upstairs, and connecting it to Time Capsule via ethernet, at least for the restoration. I will do this if I leave the computer overnight and it's still not done in the morning.
    I've done much searching of these discussion boards, and tried everything that seemed like a possible culprit. What am I missing? (Other than ditching this computer and buying a different one?)

    We have a mid 2010 27 inch iMac (and also a late 2010 13 inch MacBook Air, from which I am writing this post). About 6 months ago it was starting to get spinning beach balls, which I attributed to not having updated the OS (then 10.7). Having upgraded the Air to Mavericks with success, I also upgraded the iMac to Mavericks, and the beach balls got much, much worse, rendering the thing nearly unusable. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the issue is, particularly because the Air, which is about the same vintage, is working great under the same setup. Can someone who has not been staring at this problem for 6 months help?
    Here's what I've got:
    As I mentioned, mid 2010 27-inch iMac, 1TB hard drive, about half-full, backing up to a 2 TB Time Capsule.
    We have two wifi networks to cover the whole house; one is integrated with the cable company's provided router and sits in the basement, and the other is the Time Capsule hooked up to the cable company's VoIP router upstairs. Because you cannot use the Time Capsule to extend an existing network if it is not an Apple network, I resorted to setting each wifi network up independently (separately connected to ethernet). My Air navigates this just fine, as do our iPads/iPhones, and I don't notice a speed difference between the two networks (assuming I have equally good reception wherever I am).
    Notably, the Time Capsule seems to randomly stop broadcasting wifi every now and then (at intervals of a few days to a couple weeks), which requires a restart to get it working again. (This could be totally unrelated.)
    The iMac was at 10.7 when the beach balls started; upgrading to Mavericks made the slowness/beachballs worse. As I noted, Mavericks did not cause any trouble with the Air.
    The beach balls seem to coincide with a complete stall in everything the computer is doing. After the stall ends, the computer can be fairly speedy, so it's as if it pauses for several seconds to a minute or so to think very hard, and then goes back to its business.
    There is usually a slight improvement if I shut down and boot up again, but it gums up pretty quickly.
    Here's what I've done:
    Started with 4GB RAM; added another 8 (total 12) after this all started. Equally bad before and after.
    Stared at Activity Monitor and Console for long periods of time while watching for beach balls to try to detect a pattern.
    In Activity Monitor, memory pressure is fine (esp. now that I added 8 GB), no swap used. The two worst offenders under CPU usage seem to be kernel_task or WindowServer, but they are not always monopolizing the CPU at the times when it is stalled.
    In Console, the main two patterns seemed to be a frequent WindowServer "updates forcibly disabled" error, and what seemed like a constant browsing for wifi connections even though the computer was already connected to wifi. However, I couldn't figure out what either of these meant or what might be done to fix them.
    Used disk utility, repaired permissions, verified disk, etc. - everything was ok, although some permissions were repaired.
    Used third-party utilities, Onyx and iDefrag, to try to verify disk and clean things up. No significant problems detected, and no improvement.
    Various other methods of cleaning up -- eliminating old software or files that aren't being used, emptying trash, taking extra files off the desktop, etc. In particular, having read that Mail might have issues handling Google accounts, I eliminated a heavily-used Google account from Mail and got a separate, lighter-weight third-party app to handle that account. That did seem improve things at first, but we seem to be back to slowness and beach balls again.
    Final, last-ditch effort: backed up and then erased hard drive and (after another Disk Utility verify - still fine) did a clean install of Mavericks.
    It took several attempts to download the installer using the Time Capsule network (kept stalling); switched to the other (non-Apple) wifi network and it downloaded and installed fine.
    However, after the clean install, although it was not nearly as slow as before, amazingly, I still had spinning beach balls and hanging without having installed anything other than the OS.
    I made several attempts to get into the backup to selectively reinstall files. Could not mount backup using Time Capsule -- option-clicking and selecting "Browse Other Backups" did not actually get me to the other backup. Using Migration Assistant, could not get the backup to load, or the loading was taking an inordinately long period of time, so I gave up. (Also, every time I tried to quit Migration Assistant to try to discover the problem with the backup loading, it hung and I had to hard-restart.)
    So, since the clean install did not seem to fix the problem, and I was starting to worry about not being able to get to my backup, I have gone back to just restoring from the Time Capsule. It's telling me this will take over 200 hours.
    The one thing I haven't tried is shutting down the computer, lugging it upstairs, and connecting it to Time Capsule via ethernet, at least for the restoration. I will do this if I leave the computer overnight and it's still not done in the morning.
    I've done much searching of these discussion boards, and tried everything that seemed like a possible culprit. What am I missing? (Other than ditching this computer and buying a different one?)

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