[Info-vax] Mozilla performance Was: Re: Running Alpha VMS under the ES40 emulator

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-10-13 13:40, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2013-10-13 10:01, Paul Sture wrote:
>> * In previous versions of OSX it was in the "periodic weekly" run and
>> running that was a convenient way to update the locate database. For
>> Mountain Lion systems (and maybe before that Lion, Snow Leopard, both of
>> which I skipped) see the contents of
>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist
>
> Right. However, you still have work that is done daily, weekly and
> monthly. It's just that the locate rebuilding have been extracted to its
> own.
> See /etc/periodic/* for more...

More interesting things:
com.apple.bsd.dirhelper.plist

run every night, with the following:

         <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
         <dict>
                 <key>CLEAN_FILES_OLDER_THAN_DAYS</key>
                 <string>3</string>
         </dict>

I think that this one probably scans the disk every night for you.

There are more things running periodically as well. OSX have a really 
messy setup. It is very hard to get a good voerview of what runs, and 
when. It's spread in many different files in different places, and is in 
general rather obscure to look at.

Anyway, I think I'm drifting offtopic again... :-)

	Johnny

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