Will Beach Balls Vanish with 10.9.1?

[smileyborg]

As an iOS/OS X engineer, I can definitely state that Timer Coalescing has nothing to do with beachballs; see this explanation of the concept as part of John Siracusa's Mavericks review here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/12/#energy-saving

 

[cedwhatev]

I've noticed the beach balls during all different functions... using Safari, Flash, and even during using external hard drives. Never had this problem with ML. It's definitely a Mavericks bug..

 

[Prof.]

I have the beach ball problem, too. I'll randomly get the spinning beach ball for 1/10th of a second and then it'll go away. Other times it lasts more than a second. Very annoying, indeed.

 

[sliceoftoast]

I'm also having problems with iTunes: when I try to add an album to my library, I got a beachball and iTunes froze.

Yeah i hope 10.9.1 fixes all these bugs, i have also found that the finder also bombs out , keyboard stops responding. Rebooting fixes the problem.

 

[PavelT]

i as well have notice a considerate amount more beach balls in mavericks, than in mountain lion. and i am using only ssd as well

 

[tywebb13]

maybe it's just a joke from apple.

more beach balls in mavericks?

of course.

isn't mavericks a beach?

what do you expect at a beach?

more beach balls!

maybe os x 10.10 will be os x beach ball.

 

[anp27]

maybe it's just a joke from apple.

more beach balls in mavericks? of course. isn't mavericks a beach? what do you expect at a beach? more beach balls!

Wow, that was good!

 

[MikesGravity]

I had this beach ball issue immediately after installing Mavericks (GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!) - I did a clean install on my rMBP and still get them.

I am using "free memory" though... interesting some of you think it's related..

 

[chaseychasem]

Just updated to 10.9.1, still beachballing.

 

[plainwhitetay]

10.9.1 today. Still got 'em.

 

[iLog.Genius]

10.9.1 did nothing to fix the problems I've been having. I guess if your problem is listed in the update notes, you're good but outside of that, doesn't look like it did much.

Now the wait for 10.9.2...

 

[mmsynapse]

Not for me. Though maybe they've decreased a little.

 

[xgman]

10.9.1 did nothing to fix the problems I've been having. I guess if your problem is listed in the update notes, you're good but outside of that, doesn't look like it did much.

Now the wait for 10.9.2...

and I'm surprised that little bit of fixes took as long as it did.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

If not timer coalescing, then what IS it that's causing all those beachballs in Mac OS X 10.9? There was never any beachballing issues in 10.8 and below.

As an iOS/OS X engineer, I can definitely state that Timer Coalescing has nothing to do with beachballs; see this explanation of the concept as part of John Siracusa's Mavericks review here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/12/#energy-saving

And to report, still beachballing for me in 10.9.1 - although maybe a bit less.

 

[HenryDJP]

The beach balls went completely away for me on my 27" iMac and I did only an upgrade so far, no clean install.

 

[slide023]

As an iOS/OS X engineer, I can definitely state that Timer Coalescing has nothing to do with beachballs; see this explanation of the concept as part of John Siracusa's Mavericks review here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/12/#energy-saving

Smiley,

As an OSX Engineer, what would be your best guess as to the beachballing? I'm one of the minority I guess who this is happening to. I did the AHT extended to do a deep check of the hardware. I'm using a mid 2012 MBA 1.8GHz,4GB RAM, 128 SSD. The AHT reported no problems at all. I've done clean installs, I've installed over top of ML 10.8.5 I've done clean installs and not installed any 3rd party software, and still get the random momentary beachballs. I'm lost....I really am as to what is causing it. Some people in other forums blasted me for asking about this, even saying I was imagining them, or talking about the non-existent beachballs. I'm not asking you this question with any ill intent. I respect the fact you're an engineer, and ask due to your expertise.

What is perplexing is why doesn't Apple acknowledge the issue, and/or make the minority wait so long if this is a software issue.

Sincerely, and Respectfully,

Slide

 

[mrwalsh1968]

Still getting beach balls on 10.9.1 but not so many.

 

[old-wiz]

still see beachballs in 10.9.1

 

[tbaer]

still see beachballs in 10.9.1

No more beachball issues here since 10.9.1.
Used to have quite a few when running Chrome - all good now.

 

[ls1dreams]

No more beachball issues here since 10.9.1.
Used to have quite a few when running Chrome - all good now.

I'm still seeing them in chrome

 

[iWaldo]

Current beach ball status:
◻︎ Vanished
☑︎ Not vanished

 

[Quackers]

Still the same here too and I don't have Chrome installed.

 

[InuNacho]

I'm getting beachballed all the time, hell theres times when using expose or switching apps will take more then 10 seconds.

 

[dmrowley]

Beachballs in QuickLook still. This is my biggest peeve with 10.9. Fingers crossed for 10.9.2

 

[chaseychasem]

Anyone else have the column width bug in Finder? I only use one column, generally speaking (Name), but Finder tends to forget its size, so that it grows wider than the window, popping the horizontal scrollbar and hiding tags etc.

O hay, just had a beach ball while typing this!