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Disable unneeded Directory Access Services for speed bump
Authored by: Darkshadow on Jun 12, '03 09:29:37AM

Right - StartupItems are just shell scripts that will start a service if the file /etc/hostconfig says they should be started. If you really want a StartupItem disabled, and don't see an obvious way to do it, editing that file will allow you to.

Since you seem to know about compiling the Linux kernel, then you'll probably know about kernel modules. kexts are the same thing. Apple just calls them 'extensions' rather than 'modules' is all. But they do exactly the same thing - they don't load the drivers into memory unless said drivers are necessary. And like modules in Linux, you can manually load and unload kexts if you want to - commands are kextload and kextunload.

If you really wanted to, you could download Darwin and compile it yourself. I'm sure there probably are a few things compiled in that not everybody needs, so you may get some optimization by doing so, but I doubt it would make a big difference.

BTW, the only speed increase you get by disabling stuff in Directory Access is related to search time. It's not ever going to be a big increase. You can also increase speed a bit by editing your NetInfo domain and lowering the timeout values.



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