I recently upgraded my work laptop to OSX 10.7 (Lion) and I found that suddenly my Terminal.app was extremely slow to run each instance of /usr/bin/login. Painfully slow if you do any amount of work on the command-line. It didn’t matter if it was opening the app the first time, or just a new tab within an existing window.
This seemed to be new after the upgrade; Terminal was always snappy under Snow Leopard, which was the clean installed OS when I got it.
Did some searching around, and found this page, which cleared up my issue just perfectly, and explains why it may be that this happens. Perhaps all my old logs from Snow Leopard were clogging it up. Either way, if you’re having the same issue I hope you find this useful.
I was hoping to see the link you referenced in this post, as I’m experiencing the same slow /bin/login after my own Lion upgrade … but the “uncensored” blog post doesn’t preserve the link, so even after sending a heartfelt anti-SOPA note to my reps, I’m left scratching my head and wondering what you found to improve things. I’d award +5 points for the anti-SOPA stance, but -7 points for the implementation.
I’ve removed the censoring; I’d intended that to be temporary. Strange it didn’t work for you, that’s more on the backend (that I don’t control).
Links restored.
Awesome! Indeed, losing those logfiles returns Terminal.app to its pre-Lion snappiness.
Of course, I’ve just switched over to using iTerm2, so we’ll see if I switch back. Thanks for pulling the “censorship,” though.