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. 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. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > 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 ? >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman > **> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> >> > >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> (503) 754-4452 Android >> (623) 239-3392 Skype >> (623) 688-3392 Google Voice >> ** >> it-clowns.com >> Chief Clown >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >