Turning off unneeded services
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Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
Adam Knight writes: "It's a matter of seeing who is starting what and why, but almost everything can be changed if you work hard enough. First, ask yourself if this is something you need to do. Most services that aren't active have been paged out and just the run loop portion of the code is in memory and running, which isn't that bad of a tax on the CPU. If you're doing it to do it, don't."
