Good Day:
Have you tried repairing disk permissions? For whatever reason, it
seems to solve some problems of sluggishness under any version of Mac OS. Of
course, a clean install would also seem to do the trick, but I know you are
reluctant to go that route.
HTH:
Henry
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On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:32, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought Time Machine was the problem, so turned it off, but that made no
> difference. I've had Mavericks installed for over a month now, so I thought
> any indexing would have finished. How would I check? Activity Monitor shows
> no unusually resource-hungry processes I can see.
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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