El Capitan OS X

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airborne said:
Very perceptive padwaan
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Wow. :)

Could it not simply be Spotlight etc. indexing everything again?
Doesn't usually happen with an incremental update (AFAIK), but if you've dragged it kicking and screaming from Snow Leopard into the days of El Cap, it might need to do some serious background work... Leave it on overnight, and see how things look tomorrow?
 
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Cassady said:
Wow. :)

Could it not simply be Spotlight etc. indexing everything again?
Doesn't usually happen with an incremental update (AFAIK), but if you've dragged it kicking and screaming from Snow Leopard into the days of El Cap, it might need to do some serious background work... Leave it on overnight, and see how things look tomorrow?
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Ok that sounds fair, I had an idea OSX was too cool to do slave work like that but if that's what it takes.

Not much to index though, unless it's indexing system files, it was a fresh SL install with some updates and zero user data and only the std iLife etc apps.
Didn't seem like there was much hdd chatter either which is normally a tell tale sign of indexing.
 
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Ok that sounds fair, I had an idea OSX was too cool to do slave work like that but if that's what it takes.

Not much to index though, unless it's index system files, it was a fresh SL install with some updates and zero user data and only the std iLife etc apps.
Didn't seem like there was much hdd chatter either which is normally a tell tale sign of indexing.
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El Cap. Seriously cool. It be like > Chill. Dude. I'm. Working. Here.

But ja - if it was a clean SL install, with little in the way of data - then I'm not sure.

I'm sketchy on the details now, but it happened a few times to me with a reinstall, thought something was seriously wrong - fans singing, and everything slowing down to a crawl. Did a search, came across threads suggesting that might be it, and to just let things be. Problem was gone a few hours later, so appears they had merit. That being said - there was something specific in my Activity Monitor that was eating everything - which was the process I googled that gave me the suggestions.

Not sure if that's at play here - but could be?? You might have mentioned it already, but what machine you running?
 
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Spotlight reindexes everything after an installation. It can drag your Apple down for an hour or two
 
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Looks like you guys are right, after safe mode and then booting back into normal mode things are back to normal, hope it stays that way. I'll leave it on overnight to do its thing and hope for the best.
 
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airborne said:
Looks like you guys are right, after safe mode and then booting back into normal mode things are back to normal, hope it stays that way. I'll leave it on overnight to do its thing and hope for the best.
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Sounding good.
 
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NTFS support.. Anyone got it working again (free) ?

With Yosemite I was using osxfuse, macfuse and ntfs-3g which worked perfectly.. but I noticed the new OS killed ntfs-3g :-/
 
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NTFS support.. Anyone got it working again (free) ?

With Yosemite I was using osxfuse, macfuse and ntfs-3g which worked perfectly.. but I noticed the new OS killed ntfs-3g :-/
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Paragon NTFS for mac
 
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$m@Rt@$$ said:
Paragon NTFS for mac
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Not free though (like previous solution was).. like +/- R280. Btw I don't see the point of paying for something i use almost completely for interoperability with others.. my own stuff is formatted differently so its an interoperability annoyance with flash disks of windows users :( kinda why it took me a while to notice it nolonger working
 
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Kernel_task back to running at 95% even after leaving the laptop on overnight :( Damnation

It's on a Macbook Pro 15 early '11
 
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Did you do a migration or clean installation? There might be an extension not playing well with El Capitan. I'm not that texhnxi cal, but there should be a function to view hierarchically the processes and it might be able to break it down to the bigger jogging your resources.
 
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Did you do a migration or clean installation? There might be an extension not playing well with El Capitan. I'm not that texhnxi cal, but there should be a function to view hierarchically the processes and it might be able to break it down to the bigger jogging your resources.
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Clean install of SL, ran what looked to me to be the important updates then iLife and then El Capitan on top.

Before the updates on SL there was also this issue, which manifested to me as a very erratic mouse cursor, only now do I realise it must have been the cpu maxing out that made the mouse act like that because that's exactly what's happening now as well to the cursor. On SL the updates seemed to largely resolve it but I didn't use it much before I loaded El Capitan.
 
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