<div dir="ltr"><div>I'll be trying some of this soon as I can get little caught up with some work, but I thought it worth mentioning the SATA thing. I haven't checked mine, but ive heard that Apple commonly puts SATA2 drives in even when they have the SATA3 controller. I don't know if that's a cost or supply chain thing, just that it happens.<br>
<br></div>I recall something about ubuntu vbox guests on osx mountain lion having trouble with 3d acceleration. I'l try more RAM then look into that. My Win7 vbox runs fine so I think a linux one should be able to as well.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd second that - get something like gkrellm under mac that can show you composite graph stats of cpu, memory, disk and see what is pegging when you run. Something will generally hit a limit if it's lagging. Lack of memory will cause it to dip to swap, and then just spills into your disk io performance to kill vm's, and your host performance.<br>
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I would presume apple doesn't use cheap/slow ssd's, but but might be worth looking up the model to see what kind of performance it's rated for. I noticed a big diff going from sata2 to sata3 with upwards of 500MB/s both read/write.<br>
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Starting a job this week using a stupid windoze box again by corporate mandate even with ssd has reminded me what lag is like - could just be mac, or their driver layer @ the (bad) os as Lisa said.<br>
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On 03/11/2013 08:00 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:<br>
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Add memory - also, get some read/write statistics on the SD card. I<br>
have noticed great lags in SD - not sure if this is due to driver(s)<br>
youth or ?<br>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman <<a href="mailto:joshcoffman@gmail.com" target="_blank">joshcoffman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div class="im">
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I want to move all my non-windows dev to an ubuntu (or<br>
suggestion) virtual box vm. I'm noticing a sluggish UI both on<br>
ubuntu and Mint with cinnamon when running on my macbook. It's a<br>
retina with ssd and plenty of ram. I thought it might be unity until<br>
I tried Mint. Anyone know trick to speed up a vbox on mac?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Josh<br>
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