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Bobdude161

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I made a similar post a few weeks ago but no one replied to my question. So I'm trying again.

I just woke my Mac up after a 4 hour nap while it was running a screensaver and as soon as the screen came on it was acting like it was gonna crash on me. Everything was EXTREMELY slow and would hardly respond. I waited and waited for activity monitor to come up and saw that the two Lexmark drivers I have installed were hogging every ounce of processing speed. One was running at 40% and the other was at 30%. This always happens if I don't delete these process right after I startup. They exponentially start to take up more CPU.

So! My question once again is, is there a way to completely restrict these processes from coming up at startup? I don't need the processes to print. They are used to watch if one of the printer's buttons are being used, which I don't. Please help me. Lexmark is giving me hell!
 
You'll have to go into Terminal and edit the file /etc/hostconfig -- this contains a list of programs started at boot. Find the offending program and change it from -YES- to -NO-.

The actual startup script is in either /System/Library/StartupItems or /Library/StartupItems. If you can find the name of the offending program in that directroy, and open up the script in that directory of the same name (e.g., open the text file /Library/StartupItems/StupidPrinter/StupidPrinter), you can find the name of the config variable used in /etc/hostconfig.

Reference:

http://developer.apple.com/document.../additionalfeatures/chapter_10_section_4.html
 
cait-sith said:
You'll have to go into Terminal and edit the file /etc/hostconfig -- this contains a list of programs started at boot. Find the offending program and change it from -YES- to -NO-.

The actual startup script is in either /System/Library/StartupItems or /Library/StartupItems. If you can find the name of the offending program in that directroy, and open up the script in that directory of the same name (e.g., open the text file /Library/StartupItems/StupidPrinter/StupidPrinter), you can find the name of the config variable used in /etc/hostconfig.

Reference:

http://developer.apple.com/document.../additionalfeatures/chapter_10_section_4.html

It sounded like it could work but none of the drivers were listed. :( The cookie is still availible!
 
Have you checked the Lexmark website to see if there are update drivers that aren't messed up?
 
What is the name of the process? Is it a kernel driver or an actual program?

If it's a process, do this (as super user):

find / -name "name of the process" -print

That will show you the path to the process.

Then try this:

chmod a-x /path/to/that/file

That will keep the system from executing the file.
 
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THE COOKIE OF CHAMPIONS!!!!!

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Thanks cait-sith!!!
 

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