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Activity Monitor Question
- Thread starter ghsDUDE
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A more effective way would first be tocheck login items and remove things. Daemons running are usually necessary.
Additionally the things you showed us are taking less than one percent of your processor. I'd say you don't need to try and minimize further, beyond login items for maybe login speed.
Additionally the things you showed us are taking less than one percent of your processor. I'd say you don't need to try and minimize further, beyond login items for maybe login speed.
How do I check login items?
(This thing is a week old so in a year from now I don't want everything adding up like my old PC did
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How do I check login items?
(This thing is a week old so in a year from now I don't want everything adding up like my old PC did
System Preferences > Accounts >> Your Account >>> Login Items.
PS: To really know what is going on:
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Have a look at Activity Monitor (Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.
Also check the "System Memory" tab to see what your "Page ins:", "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" are.
image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Further reading:
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Have a look at Activity Monitor (Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.
Also check the "System Memory" tab to see what your "Page ins:", "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" are.
image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Further reading:
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How do I check login items?
(This thing is a week old so in a year from now I don't want everything adding up like my old PC did
System Preferences > Accounts > Your Account > Login Items Tab
are daemons really unnecessary? i have istatlocaldaemon running (although the connections are blocked, i'm guessing it's a separate thing) but do i need it?
Well your insult didn't really answer anything.
I just removed it from the Login.
So you didn't learn what iTunes Helper is for and how to deactivate it?
If that is the case, I am sorry, I must be using Mac OS X for too long and have forgotten, that a new user might not be catching up as fast.
And it wasn't meant as an insult, just some anger relief, that using a search engine nowadays is frowned upon and people like to be spoon fed.
