Activity Monitor, process names.

[chipandegg]

I've got the activity monitor open in front of me

There are the usual apps I can see, Logic, FF, iTunes, Finder, MS Messenger etc etc.

Though there is a lot of other stuff, I don't know what it is (probably system stuff?).

For instance there is configd, syslogd, mds, cron most of these have root inb the server column.

In the User column for my name I can see mdworker, pboard, launchd and couple of others.

Could anyone shed some light/give an explanation

Cheers

 

[robbieduncan]

Google for any of those process names and it'll tell you what they are. All are normal/required.

 

[belvdr]

Google for any of those process names and it'll tell you what they are. All are normal/required.

Yeah, here's a good list:

http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/background-processes.html