My Macbook Air (Early 2015) is too slow after macOS Monterey 12.7.4 installation

"mds_stores 104.54 % (Apple)" meaning that Spotlight was taking up all of the time of one of your two CPU cores, and then some. There was also ""File system: 120.25 seconds (timed out)." This might suggest that Spotlight is re-indexing the entire drive.

You may want to leave the MacBook Air turned on and connected to power for a couple of days to see if Spotlight finishes re-indexing the drive and the performance gets better.

codezeroo wrote:

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Thank you for your replies and suggestions. When erasing my SSD, I wipe it completely.

The SSD health report looks Ok. I was hoping it might have showed some errors.

Your First Aid report is showing a huge amount of overallocation warnings (too many to list even). I am not certain, but I think they may be related to the APFS Container which could definitely explain the performance issues.

So you did select the physical drive to erase and not just the Volume Group of "Macintosh HD" volume as I described in my last post? I'm only asking because it is very unusual to see First Aid errors on a clean install since that usually indicates a hardware issue of some sort.

If there are no external devices connected and the whole physical SSD was erased, then I believe you have some sort of hardware issue with this laptop.

You can try installing macOS to an external USB3 SSD and boot from the external SSD to compare results as this would likely tell us whether the internal SSD is the problem (physical SSD hardware or file system). It would be best to use the USB port on the right side of the laptop since that USB port is on the Logic Board.

Another experiment you can perform is to use the command line to try running the file system check by providing it with the option to override the default behavior so that it can attempt to repair those "overallocation" errors. You will need to do this while booted from Recovery Mode. You do need to make sure that you are booted into the Monterey installer when using Recovery Mode because you must use the most recent version of file system checker or bad things can happen. Also, make sure the physical drive has the device identifier "disk0".

Command to use if booted into Recovery Mode (make sure "Reinstall Monterey" is shown so that the file check utility will be the most recent version):

fsck_apfs  -o  /dev/rdisk0s2

That " -o " section is a hyphen followed by a lower case letter "Oh". With the "rdisk0s2" portion, that is the number zero.

FYI, I only tried running the file system checker this way one time a long time ago, but I think this is all that is needed. I'm only offering it since you don't have any data to worry about since you've already erased the system.

When you erased the SSD, did you erase the whole physical SSD or just the "Macintosh HD" volume? On Intel Macs, it is best if you erase the whole physical SSD in order to create a new partition table & a fresh file system. Within Disk Utility you need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical SSD is shown on the left pane of Disk Utility.

Did you try running Disk Utility First Aid on the physical SSD followed by running First Aid on the hidden Container? FYI, you must "Show All Devices" within Disk Utility before the hidden Container appears on the left pane of Disk Utility.

Even if the First Aid summary says everything is "Ok", click "Show Details" and scroll through the report to see if any unfixed errors are listed.

Run DriveDx (free trial period) to check the health of the SSD and post the complete DriveDx text report here using the "Additional Text" feature which looks like a piece of paper on the forum editing toolbar. Unfortunately with SSDs a manual inspection & interpretation of the SSD's health report is needed since the DriveDx summary of an SSD's health can be misleading (not the fault of DriveDx...same applies for other similar apps).

Run the Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected. Unfortunately a passing diagnostic result is meaningless here since there may be a hardware issue which is not detectable by the tests.

I suspect there is a power related hardware failure of some sort with this laptop.....most likely with the Logic Board. I think it is time to retire this laptop and get a newer one.

I'm really curious why you reinstalled macOS if you were not having any issues prior to the reinstall?

Edit: I agree with @Servant of Cats to give Spotlight some time to settle down. I only saw their post once I had submitted mine. I had meant to include mention of that as well. Glad @Servant of Cats mentioned Spotlight.