Selecting sidebar actions under Lion very slow

Under Snow Leopard, when I would move between some sidebard items like iPhone, iPad, or the apps list, my system was very quick. I synch my devices very frequently to keep my business calendar updated all the time so switching is happening all the time.
Under Lion, the store, the library items, in the sidebard all switch very fast. But selecting the iPhone, the iPad or the list of apps in the library is incredibly slow. Timed, its 12 to 13 seconds every time they are selected before the change takes place. I even get the spinning beachball every time. And, same thing reselecting, its not just the first time.
Is this unusual? Any suggestions appreciated. It just seems very unusual that this one app would have some specific things like this suddenly get so very slow.
Thanks!

Hello, the problem seems to be more specific about my use of mod_auth_kerb with apache. The authentication seems to take quite some time.
Greetings,
Michel

Similar Messages

Lion very slow starting apps with Firewire 800 drive mounted. Any ideas?

Lion very slow starting apps with Firewire 800 drive mounted.
When my Firewire 800 drive is in sleep mode, when I start up an app like MS Excel or Addressbook. I get a spining wheel and a delay before the app launches. Any ideas? Never happened in 10.6.

Long shot: What format is the drive?
Regards
TD

Any one else notice Mountain Lion very slow...feel like I am back on a PC !!!

Any one else notice Mountain Lion very slow...feel like I am back on a PC !!! Open files, programs, rebooting, even shutting down takes longer. Am I the only one?

Must have been bad hardware would be my guess. That's the problem with vendors though. Windows really isn't the issue if you have the right hardware. It's like a Mac, really.
The problem is that PC vendors have a tendency to rush their machines out with bad chipsets and a mish-mash of conflicting hardware. Take Vista for example. Besides the fact that it was a resource hog out of the box, there was really nothing wrong with it.
Vendors on the other hand, rushed their PCs out without the proper hardware to run it in order to sell, sell, sell, which is what gave it a bad name. So yeah, people had issues. It also suffered the same issues as Lion and ML right now due to the fact that it wouldn't run on older machines and there was an uproar in the online community--sounds familiar enough to me.
Oddly enough, even macs are running at the same specs as Windows today.
The majority of issues people tend to have is more with their PCs than with Windows and they have a tendency to blame Windows because of this without realising that MS develops software; not hardware (xbox aside). Whereas Apple develops both.
Millenium was terrible though--I won't deny that.
OSX may appear to work better, but that's because everything is designed to work together and we pay a premium for it because of the quality control on the machine. I can't help but feel that Apple takes a little more pride in their machines then PC Vendors do. In fact, Windows probably runs better on my Macbook Pro than it does on my PCs. I use it for very little these days though. I happen to like OSX and I'm addicted to the App Store.
Basically, my whole outlook on the two is that MS is a people pleaser, they try to appeal to everybody and a plethora of PC configurations. It suffers because of this. Apple is a little more arrogant (but in a good way). They stick to their own configurations and don't worry about being everybody's machine. They take pride in their designs and configurations and they succeed because of this. It also allows them to take bolder steps.
Neither is perfect and both have their strengths and weaknesses. Though I feel that Windows is often picked on for the wrong reasons, just as Mac users are often picked on by the PC community. It all boils down to a lack of understanding since Macs don't only appeal to the dumb and Windows does work quite well if you have the right configuration. No insult implied--it's just the common outlook from both communities and it irks me on both sides.

Mountain lion very slow

I just installed the mountain lion on my macbook pro, lion had before, the team made me very slow, when I play youtube or videos the videos are cut. The i7 processor and 4g memory I have. Believe it should work fine.

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.
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.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the slowdown.
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
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.
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.

Lion very slow

Lion running very slow.

Spacelife: Something certainly went very wrong during your upgrade. Backup your data and build yourself a USB flash drive boot disk with the Lion DMG. Then option key boot that Quad core Mac Pro of yours and select the USB boot disk. Delete and recreate your partitions on your Lion hard disk using Disk Utility and re-install Lion in a squeeky clean state. Then update it all the way and install your apps and restore your data. You will find it running fast as Snow Leopard, if not a bit faster.
Next, pickup an SSD drive from http://macsales.com/ and install it in your Mac Pro. I've got a 120GB one as my boot applications disk. I moved my user accounts over to a 2TB normal hard disk. I have a small 125GB partition on that 2TB disk that I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the SSD drive to on a regular basis. Boot time and launching apps are super fast! But you should not need an SSD to improve your system performance, Lion should be much faster than what you are experiencing. However, an SSD will boost your speed beyond what you've had previously even in Snow Leopard. It is the one single upgrade that offers the most improvement, even more than boosting your RAM.
It is not unusual to need to perform a clean install when upgrading Mac OS X. Actually, in my case, Lion was the smoothest upgrade yet! Every prior upgrade I would try an in place upgrade and end up starting over with a clean installation when I ran into issues like your performance problem. Yeah, it takes a long time, maybe an entire weekend but you'll see it works much better. Between free disk cloning and Time Machine you should ensure you have a good backup first.

Mountain Lion and Lion very slow on Macbook 13' 2010 Middle

The problem is the Mountain Lion and Lion very very slow, but Snow Leopard was fast.
The Lion bit faster, the Mountain Lion is much slower.
Animations are choppy and slow, but sometimes fast, but mostly random stuttering. If i have multiple windows opened, the Misson Control is very slow and useless. I think the system UI framerate is low (about 10-15 FPS)
Overall, the system response is very slow, and lagging.
I tried to clean dinstall several times, but this didn't help me.
I know that the new system is slower on older machines, but it would not be so necessary. This Machine is good machine, and i think this is enought for Mountain Lion. Will Apple fix this slow issue soon (maybe 10.8.3), or stay in this state?
At current state of the system is unusable due to the slowness.
Or is it a non official solution to fix this?
Thanks for your answers.

How much RAM do you have installed? 4 GB RAM is generally recommended as a reasonable minimum since kernel_task (part of system) consumes up to 1 GB; my browser consumes another 500 MB or so. So, if you like to multi-task and have several things open, then you will need to increase your RAM. This problem will not be fixed; I sent in a bug report and the reply was that this is how it is intended - 64 bit addressing consumes far more resources than 32 bit (Snow Leopard).
You'll need to look at your processes in Activity Monitor, quit some apps while working on others that are CPU intensive, and increase the RAM if possible.

MacBook Pro (Mid2009) under Yosemite very slow

High, since my MacBook Pro (Mid2009) is on Yosemite everything is very slow.
Starting the PC is takes much longer as well when opening programs and emails.
Also while typing it ***** sometimes.
On the internet I read something about a etrecheck. Does this help or shows me what I need to do to get back to the old performance?
Thanks for Feedback

For now forget Etrecheck.
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.
4. Reinstall Yosemite: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall OS X from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.
5. Reinstall Yosemite from Scratch:
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.

Lion: very slow performance of my macbook pro

very slow performance.
went to terminal, did the top command, and got following results (mind you, ONLY have Safari and of course Terminal open):
Processes: 96 total, 4 running, 9 stuck, 83 sleeping, 419 threads      19:07:17
Load Avg: 1.99, 1.81, 1.59 CPU usage: 2.36% user, 5.21% sys, 92.41% idle
SharedLibs: 1660K resident, 0B data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 15947 total, 2662M resident, 47M private, 209M shared.
PhysMem: 695M wired, 2175M active, 1083M inactive, 3953M used, 13M free.
VM: 250G vsize, 1093M framework vsize, 699065(68) pageins, 1724738(881) pageouts
Networks: packets: 70104/55M in, 66648/10M out.
Disks: 966630/9347M read, 327765/18G written.
PID   COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH #WQ #POR #MREG RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE
4058 top          5.2   00:03.32 1/1 0    28   29    912K   216K   1620K
4055 bash         0.0   00:00.02 1    0    20   23    356K   216K   1112K
4052 CVMCompiler 0.0   00:00.30 1    0    30   69    7780K 220K   16M
4051 login        0.0   00:00.08 2    1    33   63    928K   216K   2184K
4049 Terminal     0.3   00:01.34 7    3    128+ 164+ 7580K+ 13M    15M+
4042 ocspd        0.0   00:00.02 1    0    26   33    420K+ 276K   1376K+
4041 WebProcess   0.0   00:04.35 7    3    119 201   16M-   10M    26M-
4039 Safari       1.1   00:09.44 12   3    193 413   47M-   20M    81M-
3958 spindump_age 0.0   00:00.02 2    2    38   55    356K   220K   1100K
3956 spindump     1.3   00:42.93 16/1 13   228 145   46M+   15M    53M+
3953 aosnotifyd   0.0   00:00.18 3    1    53   279   2064K 3532K 6156K
3939 AddressBookM 6.8   06:59.11 4    1    68   4067+ 2131M- 3308K 1554M-
3895 lsboxd       0.0   00:00.06 2    2    49   69    1156K 6820K 3292K
3031 cookied      0.0   00:01.36 2    1    42   82    2028K 268K   3
every minute or so the computer blocks, every 3 or 4 hours I have to restart etc.
any suggestions?

ok, stopped syncing in System preferences and even (horror) deleted the file which reappeared in seconds.
now waiting to see if stopping the syncing helps - though computer is now working a bit better, the info on Activity Monitor would indicate it is not a real improvement
473           AddressBookMobileMeSharingAgent          me          1,4          4          1.020,0 MB          Intel (64 bit)
312           helpd          me          0,4          65          358,9 MB          Intel (64 bit)
0           kernel_task          root          1,1          76          336,6 MB          Intel (64 bit)
459           Mail          me          0,4          9          276,2 MB          Intel (64 bit)
194           java          root          0,1          30          162,4 MB          Intel (64 bit)
405           Safari          me          0,5          12          120,0 MB          Intel (64 bit)
407           Safari Web Content          me          0,2          7          100,3 MB          Intel (64 bit)
195           WindowServer          _windowserver          0,5          7          64,4 MB          Intel (64 bit)

Mountain Lion Very Slow on Mac Pro 3,1 (2008 model)

The Mac Pro 3,1 is supposed to support Mountain Lion, but when I run it, the GPU (ATI Radeon HD 2600 that came with it) makes a constant, loud fan noise as if it is working hard, and all of the graphics lag badly. I've installed all of the updates. Is there some driver problem between the Radeon HD 2600 and Mountain Lion? People on MacRumors said that it works fine on a Mac Pro 3,1 except for one guy who said it was really slow. Snow Leopard runs great on my machine.

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
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 (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.

Lion Very slow!! in Macbook pro 2.6GHz Intel Core2Duo

I need to reinstal snow leopard!! Lion isn´t work well in my laptop

If you have TimeMachine drive follow these instructions
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/14.html
Back to Snow Leopard from Lion install method
Read and print out these instructions, your computer is going to be offline and you will be cutoff from help until your machine is restored.
Clear the Desktop, Downloads and Trash of anything you wish to keep by placing their files in the respective Documents, Music, Pictures, Movie folders.
Boot into Windows and backup any files there as well. Disconnect all other drives and devices not involved.
Backup ALL your Users folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music etc) manually (drag and drop methods) to a (not to TimeMachine) external powered drive (HFS+ journaled formatted in Disk Utility) and disconnect, your going to be wiping the entire boot disk of ALL DATA. (warning, everything will be gone and not recovered, OS, programs, files, Windows etc all gone.)
If Lion is hosed but boots: You may want to hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk and use Disk Utility to format the new blank external drive instead of using OS X Lion's Disk Utility. Then reboot into Lion and copy files that way. If you have a backup of your files this is not necessary.
If Lion won't boot: You can install OS X 10.6 onto a blank external HFS+ journaled formatted drive and then hold option key and boot off the external drive and grab your files if you don't have a backup. If your Lion drive won't mount or is corrupted try a Disk Utility repair, as a last resort use DataRescue (commercial software you need to download) to do a 1's and 0's recovery (not pretty, you should always backup)
Here we go!
Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP there, don't install OS X yet.
Look up at the Utilities Menu for Disk Utility.
On the left is the name of your hard drive maker (Hitachi, Toshiba, Seagate, WD etc.), click it and Erase (format HFS+ Journaled), give it the same drive name as before, and click Erase...
(note: if you want to "scrub" the drive of old files that haven't been overwritten yet, then use the Security Option > Zero Erase, takes a lot longer)
This should wipe the drive of ALL partitions (GUID, OS X and 10.7 Recovery, Windows if present)
When it's done, quit and install OS X 10.6.
When you setup a first account, use the same user name as before, this way you can simply drag and drop the content of your previous Users folders from the external drive right back into the new Users folders and everything should work peachy. Links in iTunes to music, playlists and iPhoto links especially.
Update OS X to 10.6.8 using the Combo Update for best results.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Run the Software Update under the Apple Menu
Then install all your programs from fresh sources and validate/update.
(Note: If your original machine had 10.5 and you want the free iLife that comes with the disks with the computer, then you'll have to install 10.5 first using the same c boot/erase/format methods as above, then update to 10.6 via the disk, then Combo Update 10.6.8)
Final steps to prevent such a mess from reoccuring
A lot of people use a Carbon Copy Clone of their boot drive to a new/blank HFS+Journaled external drive (used only for this purpose) as a "hold the option key" bootable backup in case something goes wrong with their boot drive or need to restore to a previous OS X version..
Restoring from a bootable clone is rather painless and nearly automatic as it's a duplicate of the boot drive cloned. Make as many clones as you need.
It can be autoupdated to just apply changes so it doesn't take as long as a full clone.
http://bombich.com/get_ready_for_lion.html
Also use a TimeMachine drive, although not bootable like a clone, is easy to restore stuff from provided you have a installer disk to boot from (Restore TM is right under the same menu as Disk Utility on the installer disk), so if your superdrive is dead or your installer disks are missing or damaged, your out of luck.
Always maintain two copies of your data on two seperate pieces of hardware at all times to prevent a unexpected surprise from catching you.
Do not maintain a Bootable Clone and a TimeMachine partition on the same external drive, seperate drives is best.

Macbook Pro Running Lion - Very Slow

Hello,
I have a Macbook Pro (see specs below). I upgraded to Lion and ever since have had extremely slow processing speeds. This includes simple menu navigation, internet, startup/down - pretty much everything.
Do I need more RAM? I see that many in this forum have reported similar issues but there does not seem to be a consensus on the problem.
Any help would be much appreciated. I do not even want to use it at this point and pretty much only use my iPad now - rendering the MBP a $2,000 silvertone paperweight.
Model Name:
MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:
MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name:
Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:
2.4 GHz
Number of Processors:
1
Total Number of Cores:
2
L2 Cache:
3 MB
Memory:
2 GB
Bus Speed:
1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:
MBP51.007E.B05
SMC Version (system):
1.33f8
Hardware UUID:
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:
Enabled

All Adobe CS programs, whether CS 2 to 5, use, Need, a lot of memory and like to have a lot of free disk space for scratch disks.
Could be your hard drive is filling up. Could be you need more memory. Could be your computer is getting hot and or not cooling as well as it use to. Or all of the above to one point or another.
Have you restarted the computer lately?

Lion very slow to wake from sleep

Since performing a clean install of 10.7 (now at 10.7.3), my MacBook Pro takes several minutes to wake from sleep. With Snow Leopard it would take seconds. The settings in the preferences are the same. It also does another strange thing: When waking the screensaver, the screen freezes and, using my mouse, drag it around until I find my login icon... The mouse leaves a trail behind it - kind of like an etch-a-sketch does. I ran disk utilities and, although it found numerous problems and repaired them, it is still acting strange. This is annoying... I'm tempted to go back to Snow Leopard. Any ideas?

Try resetting the SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1806

WebUtil_File.Copy_File is very slow

Hi
I configured my forms server to perform WebUtil Packages
And it is fine
When I tried to copy_file action it is very slow
I mean to copy 400k on the network drives it took 7 minutes, where the manual copy of the same file took hardly a second
Can anybody help me to slove this performance Issue
Thanking u in advcane and regards
Siraj Mohiyudheen

Hi,
I am experiencing a very similar problem. Retrieving images from the server is taking anywhere between 20 seconds and 3 minutes (and these images are under 200 k).
Was a solution developed or found for this problem? I am guessing it would involve constructing a Java Bean or something similar.
If not, how would you go about using client_host to solve this problem?
Many thanks,
John

Aperture running very slow under Lion

Lift and stamp adjustments takes forever and Processing of images takes hours under Lion OS.....may have to switch back to Snow Lepard

My Aperture 3 is medium fast after a reboot (8-core MacPro, 6 GIG), but starts to get really slow after the swap file size gets above 100 meg). I then need to reboot BEFORE Aperture freezes up on me.
A3/64 was FAST under Snow Leopard... still got slow once in a while. It is happening way more often under Lion.
There are about 10+ threads on this -- Apple, please acknolege you are aware of the problem and working on a fix
I process about 6,000 pics a month - 1-2 concerts a month -- DavidKellyPhoto.com

HP Laserjet 100 color scans VERY slow under Mountain Lion

i have uninstalled the software and drivers and reinstalled using the 10.8 installer form HP. The scan process takes up to 2 minutes per page when under Lion a page could scan in 22-36 seconds.
Anyone else have this problem or a solution for speeding the process up?

I have this problem with hp 1536dnf. Have you found a solution yet?
I'm having a discussion with an hp "Expert" on the hp site. You might want to join in with any solutions you've found or, if you haven't, to let them know the problem goes beyond the 1536dnf.
see: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Scanning-Faxing-and-Copying/Question-for-the-Expert s-re-Scanning-with-1536dnf-and-Mountain/td-p/1870677

Selecting sidebar actions under Lion very slow

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for