Freezing Terminal.app in OS X

I ran in a strange bug yesterday on my macbook. Suddenly the Terminal.app started to freeze when you lunch it or open another window.

I killed half a day trying to figure out what's wrong with my HDD, and trying to restore parts of the system from a backup, but then found out that the problem was in another place.

So if you run into the same issue the cure is simple.

sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*

Apparently there is some problem with the log files that cause circular read/write calls, so when you nuke the old logs, it will get just fine