suggestions for computer optimization

[pfile]

you have an x-rite color calibrator? not sure if what's logged there re: xrdd is meaningful, but i guess i would not be surprised if the color calibration software was poorly written. i don't think i've ever owned a calibrator that didn't come with junk software.

my machine is nowhere near as bad as what's seen in your video... i'm just getting the occasional SPOD (beachball) when i never got it before on yosemite.

rob

[cdavid]

Yes, I have a color Munki that I use with that software. I have had it for a few years and I never encountered issues with it with an older iMac and Yosemite. I guess I can try deleting it and see if it helps. This is frustrating to say the least.
Carlos

[pfile]

well, its true that many osx log messages are meaningless when trying to debug something. the only way to know if its relevant would be to go back in time and see if the yosemite was throwing the same messages... which is kind of impossible. unless maybe you have a backup that contains some old system logs.

rob

[cdavid]

Well I deleted my Sophos antivirus software, deleted the Xrite software (temporarily), went through and deleted multiple unused apps and their extensions, etc.

Repaired permissions

Slight improvement during the initial launch, although the script loading step still takes longer than it should.  Quitting also a very slight improvement but still tends to linger for a bit before the app highlight disappears.

I tried running in safe boot mode and still saw the same behavior.

Any other ideas I might try....is there anything to the "pixinsight warning" in the console I posted?

Thanks
Carlos

[pfile]

i suppose that your hard disk could be failing, but trying out a new internal hard disk on an imac is very painful. also a lot of work -  in theory if you had an external usb3 disk (or thunderbolt disk, even better) that you could install a fresh copy of El Cap there and see how it behaves. the problem is that you won't necessarily be able to tell if it's a problem in the software environment on your boot disk, or your boot disk itself.

anyway over the years i've seen long shutdown times come and go. not sure what causes that.

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Carlos,

is there anything to the "pixinsight warning" in the console I posted?

You can safely ignore that "com.apple.wifi.scan entitlement" console error message. I see it also on our working OS X machines. It causes no problems and has nothing to do with the issues you are having.

Slight improvement during the initial launch, although the script loading step still takes longer than it should.

As you can see on the small video I uploaded yesterday, we cannot reproduce this. Running the application and loading modules and scripts is very fast. The machine where I captured the video has tons of large applications installed, including the entire Xcode suite, music and video production software with lots of plugins, VMware Fusion with 5 virtual machines, Wolfram Mathematica (7 GB), etc. So it is not a 'free' machine by any means.

Quitting also a very slight improvement but still tends to linger for a bit before the app highlight disappears.

Quitting PixInsight is also quite fast on OS X. However, bear in mind that if you have many modified images with complex processing histories when you close the application, PixInsight has to remove many temporary swap files, sometimes involving many gigabytes of disk storage. This task may take a while, depending mainly on your hard disk and processor speed.

[msmythers]

Being that I am totally ignorant on OSX is it possible to move the main PixInsight folder into a ramdisk for a test to see how fast it starts? This is just to eliminate PI itself.


Mike

[cdavid]

Thanks everyone, this a real bummer, this machine is only 9 months old.  I'm considering deleting and re-installing Pixinsight to see if it changes anything, doubtful.

Next step I guess will be to wipe the computer and start over ...and if that doesn't work I guess a trip to apple is in order.

Frustrating to say the least.

Carlos

[ChoJin]

if you're a developper or a sysadmin, you could try some dtrace magics (or alike) to try to analyze what the hell is happening

[cdavid]

I'm  not computer savvy enough to use something like Dtrace.
Thanks for the suggestion though
Carlos

[cdavid]

Just an Update everyone.  Good news!

I started looking through my computer and noticed that I had many leftover com.xxx files from various deleted old programs....ESPECIALLY the ADOBE's PS, etc. etc. etc.

I used a program I had not used in a while called MacCleanse.  I found many orphan files from old programs, etc.  I deleted all this junk and boom....PIXI is starting up back to normal!  Just as Fast as Juan's machine in the Video!  very relieved

Thought I would post this in case someone in the future runs into this type of problem.

Thanks again all for your help.
Carlos

[pfile]

are you using filevault? (encrypted home directory?)

i have found that on encrypted volumes, when they get to about 90% full, they start acting really, really slow.

rob

[cdavid]

Hi Rob, I have file vault off.  This was really miraculous, running the cleaner app and deleting all those files made a huge difference.  I've been playing for a while and also adjusting the number of times my Ramdisk is pointed to and the program is now running beautifully.  It starts up in seconds, the java scripts load instantaneously without the beach ball and the Benchmark test score is over 6000 for the first time ever on this machine. 

There must have been some corrupting file that was really slowing things down.

carlos

[msmythers]

 

Mike

[leemr]

I've also noticed PixInsight can hang or take a long time to terminate, also on OS X El Capitan. Running on a mid-2012 MBP with 512Gb SSD.