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
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 bo
I have had some good luck enabling 3d performance as well and boosting
graphics ram.
On Mar 11, 2013 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 w
What I have done, both in real installations and virtual machines is I make my
/tmp and /var/tmp folders tmpfs. I have found, at least with KDE, the need to
create and read/write hundreds of small files will slow down a system with
poor iops.
I have lately taken to running installations off
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 p
There's some decent advice in this thread, but I switched to a MacBook Pro
from Linux a little over a year ago and my experience has been now that
most desktop environments are terribŠ, I mean want 3d acceleration
virtualizing a desktop you want to use heavily is just a bad experience.
I set up a
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
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