Mac OSX Lion.

Velenoso said:
Lion is great, but I have 2 issues:
1. My mac seems to be a bit sluggish? Is this because I upgraded? Have not re-installed OSX since I got the machine, beginning of last year.
2. What the hell happened to 4 finger swipe up for Show Desktop? Now it's some gay 3 finger spread! And no way to restore it! This is REALLY irritating for me.
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As to your first point, when I installed Lion it felt faster to me.
 
After install, leave it running for a couple of hours. That's how much it takes to index your HDD for spotlight, afterwards it will be faster.
 
Ive got Lion running in VMware on top of Win 7 (for application dev and testing). Awesome upgrade though some of the features are a bit redundant. For instance, launch pad... I have always used cmd+spacebar to bring up the spotlight search and launch my apps from there...

Overall its great and the speed in VMware is fantastic!
 
Hugo_ZA said:
Ive got Lion running in VMware on top of Win 7 (for application dev and testing). Awesome upgrade though some of the features are a bit redundant. For instance, launch pad... I have always used cmd+spacebar to bring up the spotlight search and launch my apps from there...

Overall its great and the speed in VMware is fantastic!
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I just love the LaunchPad...swipe shortcuts on my trackpad and hotspots makes it quick and easy to access this apps I do not want in my dock. All and all Lion is once again way ahead of the rest!
 
I can see with this is going..... soon we will have lion on an iPad...... that would be nice!
 
Antybubbs said:
I can see with this is going..... soon we will have lion on an iPad...... that would be nice!
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I think this is exactly where we are going...total life in a cloud...won't matter which device you use everything will always be the same and available...shweet and scary at the same time!!!!
 
FreeMan said:
I think this is exactly where we are going...total life in a cloud...won't matter which device you use everything will always be the same and available...shweet and scary at the same time!!!!
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Until the cloud bubble burst
 
I think I'll be slinking back to SL - Aperture and Lion is completely unusable. :o
 
bwana said:
It's slower than frozen treacle.
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That's weird - I have not experience any slowdown at all. If anything, I noticed that Aperture uses more memory before hitting swap, which has had a positive effect. That said, it does grind badly once it starts swapping - I have disabled swap for this reason.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That's weird - I have not experience any slowdown at all. If anything, I noticed that Aperture uses more memory before hitting swap, which has had a positive effect. That said, it does grind badly once it starts swapping - I have disabled swap for this reason.
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How have you disabled swap? The method I posted about in another thread when I was using sl doesn't seem to work any more.
 
bwana said:
I tried it again and it seems to have stuck - I'll check again after my next reboot.
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One more thing: disabling virtual memory prevents suspend-to-disk. I don't know if it was necessary to set the sleep mode to memory-only, but it can't hurt:

Code: 
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

bwana said:
Still, if you have to disable swap to get it to preform better - not as well as under SL though - then, at least to me, it's an indication that something ain't right.
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I disabled it because I find OS X's swap behaviour overly aggressive. It would swap hard with 2GB of memory free, and there's no way to configure this behaviour. This was worse under 10.6 than it is under 10.7, but I wasn't able to disable virtual memory because the hardware based full disc encryption I used prevented me from using suspend-to-ram. With Lion's built-in software FDE, I no longer have that problem.

This is something that annoys me greatly about OS X. In Linux, I can configure the "swappiness" with a value from 0 (don't swap unless you absolutely have to) 100 (keep as much RAM free). OS X seems to lean towards the latter, and while that may make sense for machines with modest amounts of RAM and general desktop use, I find it a pain in the behind for single large-memory applications on a box with lots of RAM. So disabling it is the only solution for now.
 
bwana said:
I think I'll be slinking back to SL - Aperture and Lion is completely unusable. :o
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Did you upgrade or do a fresh install?


koffiejunkie said:
This is something that annoys me greatly about OS X. In Linux, I can configure the "swappiness" with a value from 0 (don't swap unless you absolutely have to) 100 (keep as much RAM free). OS X seems to lean towards the latter, and while that may make sense for machines with modest amounts of RAM and general desktop use, I find it a pain in the behind for single large-memory applications on a box with lots of RAM. So disabling it is the only solution for now.
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+1 Wtf were they thinking? Surely it can't be that hard to give the user an option to change it.
 
ponder said:
Did you upgrade or do a fresh install?
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Yes, I had to. Since Apple still doesn't support passing ATA passwords to the hard drive from the EFI, I needed to use a 3rd party EFI extension (SecureDoc in my case) to unlock the disc before boot time (and before resume). Once you've done that, you're past the boot menu, so no way to select the install disc.

ponder said:
+1 Wtf were they thinking? Surely it can't be that hard to give the user an option to change it.
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Dunno, I guess for 99.99% of users it doesn't matter. I also don't know if the excessive swap might be a result of anything/everthing else I'm running. Either ways, with virtual memory disabled, I have not yet had any issues.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Dunno, I guess for 99.99% of users it doesn't matter. I also don't know if the excessive swap might be a result of anything/everthing else I'm running.
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Many people don't know better but there is quite a lot of frustration about it on the net from those that understand the issue.
 
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