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.

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.

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.

-mb


On 03/11/2013 08:00 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Add memory - also, get some read/write statistics on the SD card.  I
> have noticed great lags in SD - not sure if this is due to driver(s)
> youth or ?
>
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> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman@gmail.com
> <mailto:joshcoffman@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>
>        I want to move all my non-windows dev to an ubuntu (or
>     suggestion) virtual box vm. I'm noticing a sluggish UI both on
>     ubuntu and Mint with cinnamon when running on my macbook. It's a
>     retina with ssd and plenty of ram. I thought it might be unity until
>     I tried Mint. Anyone know trick to speed up a vbox on mac?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Josh
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