So I've been using my macbook for 1y10mo now, and it started feeling slower. Firefox would take forever to load, and booting up took long. The final straw was when it started freezing consistently: that reminded me of my experiences 10 years ago on Win98.
As it turned out the thing to do was to reduce the number of unnecessary processes running. To do this check your /Library/{StartupItems, PrivilegedHelperTools, LaunchDaemons, LaunchAgents}. Here I simply removed everything, most of it was vmnet daemons. Another thing is to turn off apache, and database servers, for me this was turning off psql, and mysql servers. The best way to turn off these servers is through the control applications that come with them.
09 July 2010
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