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The big one that I went through recently was killing startup items. You tend to hoard them over time, especially with a dev machine. Look in, and clear out in
by nikcub 16y ago
The big one that I went through recently was killing startup items. You tend to hoard them over time, especially with a dev machine.
Look in, and clear out in /Library/StartupItems and /System/Library/StartupItems
Like any good UNIX, there are a dozen other ways that applications can launch themselves in OS X, so run a ps and find processes that you don't need and figure out where they are being started.
I alias everything in bash to run the scripts manually when I need them (eg. 'apu' starts apache, 'ngu' starts nginx, 'vbx' sets up virtualbox). Saves a ton of memory and gets boot time down to seconds rather than minutes.
- experimental 16y agoI trust you know what you are doing. I'd like to warn others to be careful of what is removed, especially if you didn't put it there. The price is stability.
- experimental 16y agoCan somebody explain how this doesn't contribute to the discussion? I was trying not to tell nikcub something they may already know, and trying to be helpful for anyone else while not making assumptions on the knowledge of anyone else.
- nikcub 16y agoI have no idea, I thought it was a valid point and probably something I should have mentioned
- whimsy 16y agoAre you doing anything fancy inside vbx, or is it just a copy of the startup item?
- nikcub 16y agoit is just a shell script that lets me do: vbx xp1 vbx ie7 etc. to setup the network and start the vm with that name
- haribilalic 16y agoCheck out Lingon [1] for a nice front-end to launchd to modify its start-up items. It lets you quickly schedule items, such as bash scripts, in launchd too. 1. http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/ http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/ for $4.99 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/ for a free, older version.