Slow 2007 Intel MBP on Yosemite
Dear Forum,
i have a 2007 intel MBP pro and i upgraded to Yosemite and initially it worked perfectly. Now i find its exceptionally slow. Anyone else finding this? or have any tips on what to look at?
doesn't look like its stretching the memory or the CPU in Activity Monitor...
Its not doing anything strenuous...
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the 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.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main 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.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Download and install the 10.10.1 update.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Also see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
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this is my first post here. I look forward to learn and help others.
The reason of this post is, as outlined in the title, slow paerformance of my computer after upgrading to Mavericks. It was kinda slow from before but this time it's almost unbearable to use it. I used to be able to run VMWare with 2 XP and 1 windows server machines WITH JUST 2 GB OF RAM! Now I have 4 GB and can barely run a single virtual machine with XP and the cooling fans come on just by watching a video on youtube, which also makes performance take a dump.
These are the specs extracted from EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2GHz)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro3,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
Startup Items:
DynDNSUpdater - Path: /Library/StartupItems/DynDNSUpdater
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 6 days 2:7:17
Disk Information:
WDC WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 149.92 GB (76.8 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
Storage (disk0s4) /Volumes/Storage: 349.19 GB (54.74 GB free)
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74)
com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1)
com.eltima.SyncMate.kext (0.2.5b15)
com.vmware.kext.vmci (90.4.18)
com.vmware.kext.vsockets (90.4.23)
com.vmware.kext.vmnet (0104.03.86)
com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (0104.03.86)
com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.10.1.24 (10.1.24)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[invalid] com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist
[loaded] com.synium.cleanappdaemon.plist
[failed] rapiback.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist
[loaded] com.epson.epw.agent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
[loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
[loaded] org.gpgtools.macgpg2.gpg-agent.plist
[invalid] org.gpgtools.macgpg2.gpg-agent.plist.plist
[failed] syncmateStarter.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
User Login Items:
Boom
Flux
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Cinch
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Application Enhancer
Box Sync
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)
GPGPreferences
Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
Default Browser.plugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: NO
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
22% vmware-vmx
6% Google Chrome
4% WindowServer
3% coreaudiod
2% Boom
1% EtreCheck
0% BBLaunchAgent
0% mds_stores
0% CleanApp Daemon
0% mds
Top Processes by Memory:
586 MB vmware-vmx
135 MB Finder
98 MB Google Chrome
90 MB softwareupdated
74 MB Dropbox
66 MB VMware Fusion
59 MB mds_stores
58 MB Google Chrome Helper
53 MB WindowServer
45 MB systemstats
Virtual Memory Statistics:
40 MB Free RAM
1.18 GB Active RAM
1.13 GB Inactive RAM
1.07 GB Wired RAM
24.09 GB Page-ins
645 MB Page-outs
I understand it says my RAM is way too low, but hve no idea what's killing it. So far I've disabled and uninstalled all DynDNS items. I just read about Chrome's slow performance for MBP's and plan to switch back to Safari (Firefox made my computer even slower).
Thanks in advance for any light shed on this.
Oscar.Thank you Kappy, while I was reviewing the log from EtreCheck I noticed the 3rd party preference panes, launchers and daemos. I deleted a few of them and it really helped with system performance. Reading your reply confirms that what I did was the right thing; here is an updated log from EtreCheck:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2GHz)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro3,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 0:22:52
Disk Information:
WDC WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 149.92 GB (77.67 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
Storage (disk0s4) /Volumes/Storage: 349.19 GB (54.09 GB free)
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74)
com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1)
com.eltima.SyncMate.kext (0.2.5b15)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
[invalid] com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist
[loaded] com.synium.cleanappdaemon.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist
[loaded] com.epson.epw.agent.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist
[loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
[loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
User Login Items:
Boom
Flux
iTunesHelper
Dropbox
Cinch
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Box Sync
Flash Player
Flip4Mac WMV
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)
Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
Default Browser.plugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: NO
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
5% WindowServer
4% coreaudiod
3% com.apple.qtkitserver
2% com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
1% EtreCheck
1% Boom
0% SystemUIServer
0% BBLaunchAgent
0% CleanApp Daemon
0% Safari
Top Processes by Memory:
180 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
152 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
119 MB Safari
90 MB mds_stores
82 MB com.apple.quicklook.satellite
78 MB com.apple.iTunesLibraryService
66 MB Dropbox
57 MB Finder
49 MB Preview
41 MB CleanApp Daemon
Virtual Memory Statistics:
846 MB Free RAM
2.02 GB Active RAM
620 MB Inactive RAM
561 MB Wired RAM
1.22 GB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
I was reading about GeekBench in the discusions and decided to give it a go, although I was able to only perform the 32-bit tests, I got 1268 on the single-core score and 2187 for the multi-core score; I don't know how good or bad those numbers are. Wish I had a before and after reading but I read about it too late, when I had already erased several items.
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