I had that issue after first installing El capitan.
I fixed it by resetting sarafi settings using this terminal command:
mv ~/Library/Safari ~/Library/Safari.old
If it doesn't work, just rename it back and you wont lose your preferences.
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I had that issue after first installing El capitan.
I fixed it by resetting sarafi settings using this terminal command:
mv ~/Library/Safari ~/Library/Safari.old
If it doesn't work, just rename it back and you wont lose your preferences.
Disappointed in OS X and iOS software lately.. They feel sloppy and less than finished. iPhone podcast app crashes frequently for some reason. Product discipline seems to be slipping under Cook.
Don't know why I got my hopes up.
SMB performance still sucks. 2.5 minutes to list a directory with 400 files in it? Really, Apple, that's the best you can do? Meanwhile, the older Macs and the PCs can list that directory in a matter of 2-3 seconds.
I've always tried to be platform agnostic and support whatever people want to work on at my workplace. I've defended the presence of Macs and quickly corrected people when they made false claims about how bad Macs were compared to PCs. But with Apple apparently having no more interest in supporting features that enterprise and business users need to get their work done, that's definitely coming to an end. Even I am having a hard time justifying keeping people on Macs at this point.
Sad, really. One key feature that used to work fine, hasn't worked for crud in the last few versions of the OS and is apparently not a high priority for Apple.
Well, hey, we got those new emojis though...
SMB performance still sucks. 2.5 minutes to list a directory with 400 files in it? Really, Apple, that's the best you can do? Meanwhile, the older Macs and the PCs can list that directory in a matter of 2-3 seconds.
I've always tried to be platform agnostic and support whatever people want to work on at my workplace. I've defended the presence of Macs and quickly corrected people when they made false claims about how bad Macs were compared to PCs. But with Apple apparently having no more interest in supporting features that enterprise and business users need to get their work done, that's definitely coming to an end. Even I am having a hard time justifying keeping people on Macs at this point.
Sad, really. One key feature that used to work fine, hasn't worked for crud in the last few versions of the OS and is apparently not a high priority for Apple.
Well, hey, we got those new emojis though...
I've been having "spinning beach balls" lock up my machine intermittently since 10.10.4. Been trying to isolate and stop the issue ever since. Every time there's an update I hold out some hope, but it never works.
Don't know why I got my hopes up.
SMB performance still sucks. 2.5 minutes to list a directory with 400 files in it? Really, Apple, that's the best you can do? Meanwhile, the older Macs and the PCs can list that directory in a matter of 2-3 seconds.
I've always tried to be platform agnostic and support whatever people want to work on at my workplace. I've defended the presence of Macs and quickly corrected people when they made false claims about how bad Macs were compared to PCs. But with Apple apparently having no more interest in supporting features that enterprise and business users need to get their work done, that's definitely coming to an end. Even I am having a hard time justifying keeping people on Macs at this point.
Sad, really. One key feature that used to work fine, hasn't worked for crud in the last few versions of the OS and is apparently not a high priority for Apple.
Well, hey, we got those new emojis though...
Hello, I've noticed complaining about Apple on the internet has not improved your system performance, have you tried anything else?
Like disabling writing/reading .DS_Store on network shares
Code:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores trueReplacing Finder with Path Finder or muCommander
Changing TCP Delayed ACK setting
Code:
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0Using SFTP/SSHFS instead.
This post written from a computer that can list network shares with 10,000 folders inside in a matter of seconds over SMB/AFP
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I have this bug in El Capitan, when I shut down, the dock disappears half way & freeze then the computer shuts down. Is it suppose to do that? I'm running the latest version of El Capitan not beta.
Have tried all your suggestions previously. Those, along with two dozen different "fixes" found online, didn't make one bit of difference.
The fact that so many fixes exist out there on the Internet should tell us all something about this problem (i.e., that it's been around far too long and far too long unaddressed by Apple.) I even went so far as to call Apple's support about the issue back when my workplace was on Yosemite. I was escalated to their engineering group and one of their techs did a remote session with me. Once he witnessed it, he admitted completely that it's a known issue with OS X and he hinted it would be addressed in El Capitan.
So, I'm not sure what the somewhat snarky tone is all about. I appreciate your effort to help but please spare me the snark about complaining. I've done my part in trying to fix this issue. I've even worked with the network techs at the company I work for to see what they could figure out looking at the network traffic generated by the Macs. They couldn't see any reason things were so slow.
The slowness is specifically seen when using the last 3 versions of OS X's SMB (not AFP--that's a completely different protocol) to access shares hosted on 2008/2012 Windows Server. Does that describe your situation?
Apple decided than rather license samba, they would make their own. Thankfully you can still install and use the official version. Just need to install brew from http://brew.sh/ and then run the command 'brew install samba' now you have access to a non broken 'smbclient' from terminal.
Running 'sudo opensnoop' on the client mac will show all the current disk activity read/write files and might give better hints at what is causing the system to be slow. Not using SSDs makes things run slowly also.
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If you have a lot of EMAIL accounts, I would stay away from El Capitan like the plague. It corrupts multiple email accounts. I've done multiple clean installations and the Migration Assistant simply wrecks any email account of a lot of emails and/or accounts. How Apple could screw this up is beyond me.
So if you have just 1 or 2 email accounts give it a spin. If you do business on your Mac, AVOID EL CAPITAN! I still haven't gotten all my mail back and I've read practically every horror story. It's not an easy fix. Entire mailboxes just disappear completely like they never existed.
As Steve Jobs would say about BluRay, I'd say the same about El Capitan...
"It's just a bag o' hurt." :-(
So if you have just 1 or 2 email accounts give it a spin. If you do business on your Mac, AVOID EL CAPITAN! I still haven't gotten all my mail back and I've read practically every horror story. It's not an easy fix. Entire mailboxes just disappear completely like they never existed.
As Steve Jobs would say about BluRay, I'd say the same about El Capitan...
"It's just a bag o' hurt." :-(
mDNSResponder may be back but my machine is acting like it never knew it. Actually, discoveryd never caused issues with me, but mDNSResponder has caused me tremendous problems the past few days. DNS gets disrupted and stops working, killing the process doesn't do anything, internet just crashes and it will resume after a few moments. Nothing is indicated in the console either as to what is happening. It used to just be Safari, but now even Chrome is affected. It seems like this might have gotten exacerbated in the latest beta.
Incoming ports still sometimes work. Downloads don't get disrupted.
Incoming ports still sometimes work. Downloads don't get disrupted.
WOW! Two absolutely brilliant suggestions I've seen nowhere else. Thank you. I knew about Apple abandoning SAMBA but hadn't even considered the idea of installing it.