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I have ST on my Mac. It's a pretty beefy machine - i7, 4gb of ram. And it runs like a lazy dog in a hot August day in North Carolina, i.e., very slowly. I real
by pnathan 14y ago
I have ST on my Mac. It's a pretty beefy machine - i7, 4gb of ram. And it runs like a lazy dog in a hot August day in North Carolina, i.e., very slowly.
I really wish it'd be sped up and I sincerely hope that the Windows version is massively faster.
- Tomdarkness 14y agoI use ST frequently on OSX and can't say I've personally encountered any slowness. Are there any specific actions you find slow?
- pnathan 14y agoPretty much everything. Slow to load, slow to refresh, slow dialog boxes. Other stuff on my system is quite fast.
- terhechte 14y agoIt used to be rather slow for me, too. It got a lot faster with their 1.5 release, and (of course) ever since I did 'git gc' it also got a lot faster.
- sjstreeting 14y agoThe usual reason for slowness on OS X is one of the following: 1. Lack of HDD space (10%+ is benchmark to keep OS X's dynamic defrag happy) 2. Low memory - ST has to launch git & hg binaries and low memory affects those tasks especially 3. Running Mercurial on the App Store version on 10.8 - this is a little esoteric but it's down to Python precompilation and slight differences in versions. You can resolve that by using the system Mercurial instead of the embedded one for now.
- weslly 14y agoI have a mid 2010 mbp with 4gb of ram and it runs pretty fast.
- pnathan 14y agoSSD or platter? I use a hard disk, so that might be the cause.
- weslly 14y agoPlatter.
- Dirlewanger 14y agoMid 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD here and ST flies. Never had performance problems. An SSD is the single best upgrade one can make to their machine.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoI have a slow, old MBP (2.53 C2D), and it's very fast, even on big repos (like Sinatra). So maybe your settings are wrong, or something. It's worth investigating if you use ST regularly IMO :)
- adamnemecek 14y agoSinatra is a big repo :-)?
- pooriaazimi 14y agoMy Bad. I meant Rails (which is huge)! Though Sinatra isn't very small either. It has a few thousand commits.
- drawkbox 14y agoIt is a little hefty but make sure you are using SSH, HTTPS is a dog indeed and repos over a few GB it starts to consume memory especially on repos with larger files. On my 16GB Mac Pro it flies, on my iMac with similar specs it does take a while on commits that are larger.
- Osiris 14y agoHave you updated to the latest version? They've made several performance improvements in the last few versions especially regarding the graph view.