Questions about processes

[Lord Raiden]

>Most of those processes are used by the kernel, some of them, if you
>aren't using the specific hardware or functionality they provide (such
>as USB or ktrace) can be disabled by compiling your own kernel (see
>here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/kernelconfig.html).
>  While this may not provide a *HUGE* performance increase, it may be a
>good idea to try.  I would also recommend, perhaps, adding some more
>RAM?  :-)

         Hmm, interesting.  I figured they might all be needed, but given 
the raw number that there were I was kind of shocked.  My ps list in 4.x 
was a whole lot shorter so I thought that a lot of these were just a lot of 
unneeded processes that could simply be removed, but apparently 
not.  heh.  Thanks for the info.  I guess I just found it weird to have a 
list like that come up.  Especially with all the irq and other items 
appearing on that list.


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