On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> Trying to figure out why Safari (and other apps) seem slow on Lion.  
> Safari, in particular, can take forever to load pages, although other times, 
> it can feel fast.
> I've run tests from speedtest.net and I'm getting roughly 30 Mbits down - so 
> you'd think everything would be snappy.
> Not so.
> 
On three of my machines, the upgrade made no difference in speed. But on one 
2-yr-old iMac, I had horrible performance  problems. Finally I booted from the 
recovery volume and ran disk repair - it found dozens of broken hard links, 
which it fixed. That made some difference, but not enough. Finally I went 
nuclear on it - made sure I had a recent ™ backup (hah - Lion autocorrect 
action there :), booted from Lion DVD, erased the partition and started fresh, 
then restored from ™. That brought the speed up to close to what it was under 
SL, but it's still a dog compared to the other machines. No idea why. 
Frustrating.

./s

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