OS X Optimization

[htmlmasterdave]

I was just wondering if anyone had some tops for optimizing OS X? There seems to be a fair number of processes around after boot, I was just wondering if some of them could be removed etc?

Thanks!

 

[hopejr]

i wish i knew. I only have the stock 256MB, and whenever i run java based apps, it really chugs. But, I do know that it is really easy to kill processes using the Activity Monitor.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Nope, never saw a need really.

I'm sure there is plenty you could kill without worry though. I might take a look at it soon.

 

[Nothinman]

An idle process causes no performance drain, all they do is take up some memory and if it's needed it'll be reused by the OS and the process paged back in if necessary.

 

[hopejr]

I've noticed today (with Activity Monitor running with a memory usage dock icon) that no matter how many programs are running at the same time, the same amount of memory is active (used) and same amount is inactive (used for cache). Only when I've closed a program does the active amount drop and free memory increase considerably. After a few minutes, the memory usage recovers. I'm very impressed with this and never seen such good memory usage before.
So, htmlmasterdave, I wouldn't worry about it