Recently I noticed that the launch of the mac osx terminal is getting slow and slpw. After google the problem online, I found that it seems to be a problem of the log files. A solution for that is to type the following command in your terminal:
sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl
For more information, refer to http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/06/speed-up-a-slow-terminal-by-clearing-log-files/
