Mavericks 10.9 painfully slow on Macbook Pro

[Ramanonos]

There seems to a lot of dissatisfaction with Mavericks, but I'm hopeful my issue is fixable. The performance since the upgrade is horrible. Chrome hangs. Firefox doesn't seem to be much better. I need to manually quit Dropbox in order to get a single browser window to open, which ussually works after 5mins of force quitting dropbox. Obviously something is very wrong and interfering. I ran verify disk permissions and verify disk. All is well there. I updated Java and my Chrome+firefox is current. I have a MBP, with 8GB RAM. Is there an app somewhere causing trouble? How should I proceed with root cause? I perfer not to wait until Apple fixes this. My Laptop is unusable in current state. Here's data dump from EtreCheck:

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2

1 2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB

AMD Radeon HD 6490M - 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:

VirtualBox - Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox

System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 0 days 15:37:19

Disk Information:

Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 disk0 : (500.11 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (146.3 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.0.4)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.0.4)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.anchorfree.ajaxserver.plist

[loaded] com.barebones.authd.plist

[loaded] com.crashplan.engine.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist

Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.divx.dms.agent.plist

[loaded] com.divx.update.agent.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist

[loaded] com.lost.smoke.plist

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist

User Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[redacted]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist

[loaded] com.crashplan.javacheck.plist

[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist

[loaded] com.plexapp.helper.plist

[loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist

User Login Items:

GrowlHelperApp

iTunesHelper

VMware Fusion Start Menu

Amazon Cloud Drive

Hotspot Shield

Dropbox

Google Drive

CrashPlan menu bar

Backup

3rd Party Preference Panes:

AppTrap

Flash Player

Growl

Java

Perian

Internet Plug-ins:

Default Browser.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

OVSHelper.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

Picasa.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

30% plugin-container

27% firefox

22% WindowServer

2% java

1% EtreCheck

1% hidd

0% fontd

0% smoke

0% mds

0% sysmond

Top Processes by Memory:

396 MB firefox

172 MB Finder

139 MB java

139 MB plugin-container

82 MB Dropbox

74 MB WindowServer

66 MB mds_stores

66 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent

57 MB smoke

41 MB EtreCheck

Virtual Memory Statistics:

3.84 GB Free RAM

1.65 GB Active RAM

689 MB Inactive RAM

1.30 GB Wired RAM

1.98 GB Page-ins

2 MB Page-outs

 

[miscend]

Did you do a clean install instead of upgrade?

Failure to that I would downgrade to the last stable OSX you had. And wait for Apple to bugfix Mavericks.

 

[Ramanonos]

I just did the upgrade from 10.8 to 10.9 - you know the one that Apple said is as easy as clicking a button...

I guess I'm looking for a quick hit fix to at least stabilize things until Apple gets their act together. Doing a "clean install" or "reverting back" to 10.8 sounds kinda scary, especially when I can't seem to muster up enough Mac power to get DropBox or Crashplan to back up things in case something breaks. I'm loosing faith in Apple lately and something breaking seems more likely.

 

[blueroom]

Do a clean install.