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Disable unneeded Directory Access Services for speed bump
Authored by: tbmaddux on Jun 13, '03 09:20:39AM
According to John Timmer at OSXFAQ.com, all kexts marked as needed for booting are loaded from Extensions.mkext at boot time by BootX and then unused ones are unloaded from memory by kextd:

I Thought Mac OS X Was Supposed To Be The End Of Extensions Hell ??

So removing kexts is only going to be of benefit at bootup, which isn't often on my MacOS X systems.

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