Sounds like you hit all the usual suspects. I know my MacBook was
sluggish for about three days after I upgraded but I didn't disable
spotlight. Now it seems to be pretty much back to normal. I also noticed
that my next time machine backup was huge. I think it said 180GB so the
update apparently touched a lot of files.
CB
On 4/14/15 1:51 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
I’m not totally sure what to make of this. I upgraded my mid 2010 13 inch
white pollycarbon macbook, 2.4GHZ dule intel core, 250GB hard drive, 2GB ram
from Yosemite 10.10.2 to 10.10.3.
I should add that I didn’t do a clean install since it wasn’t a major upgrade,
but only a build update. 99.999% of the time, I’ve never had issues doing so.
Now however, I’m finding that my macbook is all of a sudden performing fairly
sluggishly. It’s not so much to the point of being unusable by any means, but
it’s definitely enough to be down right irritating. I mainly am seeing this in
Mail, Safari, and the Finder. I’d say most severely in Mail, however, like I
say, it’s really happening just about everywhere.
I did disable spotlight indexing on my Macintosh HD. To do this, I went into
Terminal and issued:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
Which seems to have helped a slight bit. Not much though. I personally don’t
know why I don’t, but for some unexplainable reason, I really never have cared
for Spotlight. I guess mainly that’s because I am extremely familiar with the
file structure of my drive, and I pretty much know where all the data is that I
need to access. I don’t want to get off topic from my initial post by veering
to Spotlight as a sub topic branch, but we’ll just conclude that note by saying
I think Spotlight serves its uses, but I don’t really find it useful for me. I
know you can do more than searching for files, things like Google searches, but
really? why? I can just pop open Safari, and search that way. So I gotta hit
one more keystroke. Big freaking deal.
Anyway, so yeah, I shut that off, but still, I’m finding after doing the
update, things still seem a bit slower. Yeah, I definitely did run a
permission repair from within the recovery partition, and I also ran a disk
verify and repair. All looks really good as far as that front goes. So alas,
I’m a bit bathled as to what on earth could be slowing things down? I totally
get that this is an older system, but it’s not that? old. Plus, why would
Yosemite work fine with 10.10.2, but only one build later, not do so hot? I
could see it, maybe! if we were going to OSX 11.0 hypothetically, (and no, 11.0
isn’t released, so don’t go there,) but definitely not just one build higher
within the same major release… or… am I wrong?
I’d be very interested in hearing if any of yall have seen a slow decrease even
ever so slightly in performance. Again, it’s not much. It’s fairly suttle,
but it’s definitely noticeable.
Chris.
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