Wonder if Spotlight is indexing your drive or maybe a time machine
backup running? Have you poked around in Activity Monitor to check CPU
load or disk activity levels?
CB
On 1/7/14 11:05 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
Assuming I did it right, nothing changed. It took at least fifteen to twenty
seconds to open an Mp3 file with VLC, and that's normal under Mavericks. VO
stutters, audio sometimes breaks up, Safari can take a few seconds to respond
when I switch to it, and the whole system just feels sluggish in most cases.
Some things are fine, like writing text or arrowing around tables, but opening
apps or windows, or switching windows, almost makes me wish I were on Windows.
I hate to say that, but weever I boot into Windows I love how the OS does what
I tell it to with no delays, instead of the small to large delays under
Mavericks. Even previous OS10 versions had that bit of lag, sort of like using
a Windows screen reader with a large voice, but worse in some ways. Mavericks
seems to have intensified those problems.
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting. So it's not memory unless you're running something really memory
hungry like some virtual machines or something. Did the SMC reset do anything?
CB
On 1/7/14 12:18 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
My Mini came with 2gb, and that was miserable. I had half-formed dreams of
switching to a Macbook, but I finally caved about ten months ago and got 8gb
from new egg.com. The difference is extraordinary! I never run out now, though,
as I said, performance is worse now than under Mountain Lion. That's ironic, as
one big feature of Mavericks was the lower memory usage and better performance.
Whatever Apple says, when a 2007 Mini running Lion feels way snappier than my
2011 Mini running Mavericks, we have a serious problem.
On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
Hope it helps. I usually start having performance issues when I run out of RAM
than anything else. Not as big an issue now that I have 8GB but it was kinda
tight when I had 4.
CB
On 1/6/14 11:48 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Thanks, and it's worth a shot. However, I've seen no improvement at all after
doing the PRAM reset, except that Spoken Items seems to respond faster the
couple times I've used it. Still, anything to avoid a complete re-install of my
OS (and, more to the point, all my apps and settings) is fine with me.
On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
According to Apple you can reset the SMC on a mini by shutting it down,
unplugging it from power for 15 seconds, plugging it back in, waiting 5 seconds
and powering it back up.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
CB
On 1/6/14 6:59 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Thanks. My troubles are more slowness opening mail and apps, and occasional
audio stuttering even with Voiceover. I still haven't gone ahead with the huge
step of the clean install, but maybe resetting the PRAM will help things. It's
worth a shot at least. This SMC reset does not seem as likely to help, and I
have a Mini so can't remove the battery or anything.
On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
The PRAM reset stuff happens as part of the hardware self-check, long before
any boot loaders and other software is executed. What are the advantages of
resetting the PRAM? PRAM is used to hold a lot of little details
semi-permanently. Things related to which drive/partition to boot,
speaker/sound settings, display settings and more. If they get mangled somehow
your machine can start behaving badly while it goes on a fruitless search for a
drive which doesn't exist or route sound to nowhere. So doing a resent puts
things back to factory fresh. Exactly what is stored on PRAM varies between Mac
models. There is also the SMC for System Management Controller on Intel Macs.
The SMC controls things like power, fans and system performance so you might
want to try resetting that as well. On a laptop you'll have to unplug it, pull
the battery and hold down the power button for 5 seconds to drain the last bit
of juice. That resets the SMC to factory.
CB
On 1/6/14 4:56 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
What if you have a boot manager? I have Refit installed, so will this work for
me or do I need to boot into Mac and then hold down the keys? Also, what
exactly are the advantages of doing this? I've heard a lot about it, but am not
sure why one might actually need to do it.
On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
Power down your machine, hold down command+option+P+R and keep holding them
while you power up the machine. You should hear the startup sound after a bit.
I usually keep them down until I've heard the startup sound a couple time -
maybe three or four - and then let off the keys to allow a normal startup.
CB
On 1/6/14 12:13 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
Can someone explain the procedure to reset the Prams on a Mac? My system has
slowed down and I think this might help. I tried to search the archives, but
could not do so as I didn't find a link in the e-mail message to do so as is
the case with the iPhone list. Thanks.
Les
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