Increased Shut down time on 10.7 Lion

how often do you actually shut down your mac? most people these days just put it to sleep, maybe shutting it down when they go away, or something...

i imagine it's taking a 'snapshot' of open apps, windows...so it can restore them on reboot.

15 seconds every now & then doesn't seem so bad, considering all of the above...

 

i see that same on my test machines, my imac and mbp w/ssd get the spinning wheel for 25 secs before shutting down, both SL upgrades, with and without FV2 installed.

 

Try ejecting your Boot Camp partition (right click -> eject). It will come back after the next boot.

 

I can confirm the spinning wheel is there on my late 2009 Mini while restarting as well, it takes additional 30 seconds to restart.

Is it there when your MBP restarts or just when it shuts down?

 

It might be because of the saved state feature. When you shut your Mac down and then back on, do some applications start automatically?

Besides, I've noticed that the new Mail.app tends to take a few time closing.

 

I asked that because I had the same issue, but I wrote an app that automatically disables save state and shut downs the Mac, and it shuts down as fast as SL.

Care to give it a try? CleanShutDown

Let me know if it improves your shut down time!

 

Interestingly enough, the shutdown time of my MB was dramatically improved by Lion, and startup time is only slightly increased.

Weird.

 

Same here. Boot up times slightly increased but shut down time dramatically decreased. Launching apps is also increased as well. At any one time i have multiple safari tabs opened, mail, calendar, iTunes, pages, numbers, vmware, adobe reader, adobe illustrator and adium all set to automatically open on boot.

Everything is great so far except for boot time. Took exactly 1 minute to start up....

 

And same here, although 2010 Air startup time doesn't seem any slower to me, shutdown on both that and 2008 MBP is faster than it used to be.

 

You mean 10.7.2

 

My MBP shuts down in about 3-5 seconds.

 

I'm experiencing the very same problem on my mid-2010 15" MBP. At first I thought it was because I did an upgrade from SL, but I have since performed a clean install of Lion and the startup/shutdown speeds are the same..

 

I'm seeing a HUGE decrease in shutdown and startup times on my Early 2011 13" MBP w/ a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. On Snow Leopard my startups were longer than with the stock HDD.

FYI; I put SL on my SSD by just copying my installation from my HDD using OS X's Disk Utility and I installed Lion as a regular update; no fresh installs at all.

The trend I'm seeing here is that anything older than early 2011 is having issues. I wonder if it's hardware/chipset related?

 

My shutdown time is easily 3-4 times longer than under SL as well. Boot time seems unaffected though, and since I rarely shutdown/reboot, it doesn't really bother me.