Mac OSX Lion.

[bwana]

I've upgraded to 8gb of ram and turns out Aperture wants that too. Even just sitting in the background it's using more and more ram so I'm going to limit the app to 4gb and suffer through until Apple fixes the memory leak. It's a fairly common problem according to their support discussions.

 

[Velenoso]

I think I'll be slinking back to SL - Aperture and Lion is completely unusable.

I'm not seeing much change?

My entire Lion set up isn't running well on my mbp. It's fine on the iMac though (fresh install). So I'll see if I got a bit o' time this weekend to back up and install Lion fresh on my mbp.

 

[Grimspoon]

Does upgrade vs fresh install of Lion make the biggest difference?

 

[bwana]

I'm not seeing much change?

I don't know how much you use aperture but 7D RAW files were taking 30s+ seconds to load, more than treble what it used to be. 30 seconds x thousands of photos a week adds up.

Does upgrade vs fresh install of Lion make the biggest difference?

 

[koffiejunkie]

I don't know how much you use aperture but 7D RAW files were taking 30s+ seconds to load, more than treble what it used to be. 30 seconds x thousands of photos a week adds up.

There's definitely something wrong there. They take 5-8 seconds one mine, and you have a newer machine.

 

[bwana]

There's definitely something wrong there. They take 5-8 seconds one mine, and you have a newer machine.

There's no reason why it should be that slow.

 

[koffiejunkie]

There's no reason why it should be that slow.

What, the 5-8 seconds or the 30 seconds?

 

[Grimspoon]

I'm pretty sure I used the 10.6 tip: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=201106020948369

Did you find this made a difference? I see the comments are mostly very positive.

Baffles me as to why OSX is using swap space when there is plenty physical RAM available.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Did you find this made a difference? I see the comments are mostly very positive.

Yes definitely, although I suspect bwana is right about a memory leak.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Just to be clear: You need to have enough memory for what you want to do if you want to disable virtual memory. If you don't have enough, you'll just crash your box.

 

[bwana]

Did you find this made a difference? I see the comments are mostly very positive.

Baffles me as to why OSX is using swap space when there is plenty physical RAM available.

Yes - it made a big difference in SL. I haven't quite made my mind up about Lion.

If you do it make sure you have something like iStat menus running so you can keep an eye on how much ram you're using.

 

[Grimspoon]

Yes - it made a big difference in SL. I haven't quite made my mind up about Lion.

If you do it make sure you have something like iStat menus running so you can keep an eye on how much ram you're using.

Yeah I see they say Lion does things a bit differently so you don't notice much difference.

If I do try it, I have iStat running.

 

[Pooky]

Is it a new thing in Lion that things like USBs and mounted apps don't show up on the desktop?

 

[bwana]

Is it a new thing in Lion that things like USBs and mounted apps don't show up on the desktop?

Not sure what a mounted app is but deciding what's shown on the desktop is generally a finder preference.

 

[Grimspoon]

Is it a new thing in Lion that things like USBs and mounted apps don't show up on the desktop?

Nope don't think so. Mine show up.


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[milomak]

one thing i find irritating is that when my mbp wakes from sleep, it connects to my router (wireless) but i can't access the net. i actually have to turn airport off and on again for it to work. this didn't happen in sl.

 

[bwana]

one thing i find irritating is that when my mbp wakes from sleep, it connects to my router (wireless) but i can't access the net. i actually have to turn airport off and on again for it to work. this didn't happen in sl.

It happened more to me in SL, in fact lion seems to have sorted that out.

 

[Hugo_ZA]

Is it a new thing in Lion that things like USBs and mounted apps don't show up on the desktop?

Nope it's just disabled by default in the finder settings.

 

[Peder]

one thing i find irritating is that when my mbp wakes from sleep, it connects to my router (wireless) but i can't access the net. i actually have to turn airport off and on again for it to work. this didn't happen in sl.

mine won't connect to any servers if it has gone to sleep which is a new thing i found irritating in lion.

I must admit i am kinda considering going back to SL since trying to sort folders in some views are just impossible and its downright irritating... (and there are may more irritations but let me not bore you...

 

[GPSJane]

Thunderbird is seriously annoying me so I may just upgrade and remove all the extra stuff and give Mac Mail a try again.