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Why don't you spend $140 and add an SSD to the pro? You can keep the HDD for an extra $80 with a cd drive bay HDD caddy.
Doesn't the latter void warranty?
I have 8 GB of memory on my Macbook Pro, and I've never seen anything like the problems described in this article. I leave my machine up for weeks at a time, I leave the Time Machine drive connected for weeks, and never have a slowdown, even when time machine is backing up.
The only time I have memory issues is when I have too many safari tabs open for too long. Eventually safari takes too much memory. So, I shut down safari and start it back up-- it opens up all the tabs that were open and takes a lot less memory.
I'm kinda astounded that people with 20 and 32GB of RAM and 8 CPUS are saying it takes 5 seconds to open a terminal window. Have never seen anything like that.
I would venture to guess that these people who are seeing the problem are running a kernel extension or possibly have otherwise modified their machine.
Not this again, we already went through this a few weeks ago. Back then, I thought the conclusion was that there is nothing broken about OS X memory management, and that with every 'fix' you come up with, you will just introduce another degenerate corner case. The same holds for any OS, trade-offs are made that may have some negative effect in some cases, to the benefit of the general cases. I don't recognize any of…
I bought a brand new Macbook Pro, 15" with upgraded CPU, etc. with 4GB of RAM last year (2011 model). I didn't want to upgrade to a SSD, I wanted to do that later. After I upgraded to Lion (through the Mac Store) the machine is as speedy as my old Macbook Pro I bought in 2006 and is running Snow Leopard. It's horrible and it's so annoying and I'm pretty much really angry. If Apple will not fix this I will NEVER buy a…
I have an 8-way Xeon Mac Pro w/ 20GB of RAM, almost half of which is 'free' at any point during the day unless I'm doing something really out of the ordinary. Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. I really don't give a shit how it's not "technically" broken - that's broken from an experience point of view. And I haven't re-installed the OS (this was an…
Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. That's not swapping. That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login. Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to prevent that.
eklitzke@gnut:~ $ time sudo head -c 1073741824 /dev/sda > /dev/null
real 0m8.267s
user 0m0.220s
sys 0m0.810s
Even if the login command does need to sequentially read through logs to find the last login time (and I'm skeptical of that, because that would be a stupid way to implement login), I don't see how that would explain multiple seconds of waiting.
I have an 8-way Xeon Mac Pro w/ 20GB of RAM, almost half of which is 'free' at any point during the day unless I'm doing something really out of the ordinary. Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. I really don't give a shit how it's not "technically" broken - that's broken from an experience point of view. And I haven't re-installed the OS (this was an…
Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. That's not swapping. That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login. Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to prevent that.
This claimed problem is not adequately described-- because I don't see it. Therefore there is something else going on here. I have 8 GB of memory on my Macbook Pro, and I've never seen anything like the problems described in this article. I leave my machine up for weeks at a time, I leave the Time Machine drive connected for weeks, and never have a slowdown, even when time machine is backing up. The only time I have…
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The thing is, Lion runs like crap without an SSD or insane amounts of RAM for many people. It doesn't help if it works for some, or even the majority. If anything, we need more people digging in OS X internals. I am sorry to use a tired analogy here, but Vista did work great for many too. I have two Macs, one brand new, one migrated from SL, and 10.7 Safari was almost unusable on both until I installed SSDs. If that…
I'm running on a 160GB HDD (nearly full), 2GB ram, on a 4 year old MacBook. I always have iTunes, Xcode, Safari/Chrome running with multiple tabs, and a mail client (Sparrow). The system originally ran Leopard and I upgraded to SL and then Lion. I wouldn't say it's slow. It's definitely getting slower but that's expected since it's such an old system. Could it be that you're just expecting too much from your computer…
Expectations are certainly a big part of the perceptual speed equation. But with OS X, don't underestimate the benefits of keeping your disk less than 90% full. With all the caches, iPhone and iPad backups (over 40 GB in my case), Xcode, sleepimages and swapfiles, installers (Adobe!), SyncServices, etc., a 160GB SSD fills up in no time. When things get slow, getting back below 90% works wonders.
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Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up to 5 seconds to open. That's not swapping. That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login. Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to prevent that.
When the logs are read once, they should stay in the VFS cache as long as there is enough RAM, shouldn't they? Anyway, instead of running /usr/bin/login, I just use /bin/zsh as my Terminal.app startup command which is much faster. However, every time I access the file system, even some tab for autocompletion, it takes a few seconds. Even cd'ing into some directory can sometimes take a few seconds. Sometimes ~= it's m…
The only winners are those "Mac cleaner, keeper" apps whose Google Ads know we are all watching beach balls.
Apple should really sell ad space on those beach balls.