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Author: Michael Butash
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: ubuntu vbox guest on mac
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 <
> <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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