Quitting Processes................

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  1. Bobdude161, Aug 30, 2006

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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!
     
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  2. cait-sith, Aug 30, 2006

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    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
     
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  3. Bobdude161, Aug 30, 2006

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    It sounded like it could work but none of the drivers were listed. :( The cookie is still availible!
     
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  4. OutThere, Aug 30, 2006

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    Have you checked the Lexmark website to see if there are update drivers that aren't messed up?
     
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  5. cait-sith, Aug 31, 2006

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    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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  6. Bobdude161, Aug 31, 2006

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    You sir have won:

    THE COOKIE OF CHAMPIONS!!!!!

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    Congrats!!!

    Thanks cait-sith!!!
     

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