Sorry if this has been answered, but I couldn't find anything definitive on here.
I recently changed from Ubuntu 11.04 to running Linux Mint 16, 64 bit as my host OS, kernel 3.11.0-12-generic with 8GB of memory. The change was mostly warranted by my distaste for the Unity desktop, but I'm almost ready to go back if I can't figure out the right settings. FWIW, my Linux expertise is probably about a 4 on a scale of 10, but where I'm weakest is in the area of "under the hood" configuration.
My /tmp is ridiculously big, possibly due to an error in the install. My CPU is a a reasonably good Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz
I really haven't done any host tweaking as of yet, but I really think I need to as I just don't think the default settings are giving me the kind of guest performance I was used to with Ubuntu. Mouse clicks are spotty, redraws are slow at times, etc.
My guests are where I typically do all my heavy work - windows Visual Studio development, web authoring, etc, and really only use the host OS for the simplest of tasks - browsing, listening to music, light document work. My original motivation for going with a Linux host was simply to avoid the Windows tax for a 64 bit host OS.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
NOTE: I can certainly add any logs, settings, etc that are needed; just didn't know what might be helpful.
