On 12/12/01 12:55 PM, "Marv Yount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently installed Office v.X and migrated all my mail data, settings, > etc. from Outlook Express. All that went fine and Entourage X seems to be > working well. I have noticed one possible oddity. Since installing Office > v.X I've noticed periods of high disk and CPU activity when nothing should > have been going on. I quit all but the basic apps (making sure to quit all > of the Office apps) but I still noticed the periodic activity. A look at > 'top' showed some Microsoft process still running which I tracked down to > something called 'Microsoft Database Daemon'. I also found that its > automatically started at login time. > > I didn't find any reference to this process in the Microsoft helps, so what > is it? Must it be running at all times even when no other Office apps are > running? It seems like when its active everything is a bit more sluggish. > If it is needed is there a way to make it less intrusive on the system? > > Thanks. > It's what checks to see if it's time to send you an Office Notification (a Reminder). If you don't want Reminders, turn off Office Notifications in the Entourage menu, quit Entourage, and Log out/log in or reboot. I _think_ the daemon goes away then (or at least stops looking for things). I haven't found anything sluggish about OS X with the daemon running, but I have a lot of RAM installed. Although Apple says 128 MB minimum for OS X, you really need at least 256, and the more the merrier. It's so cheap on modern computers, you really should get a lot more. You won't see any sluggishness then. There have been more serious problems with conflicts between multiple carbon applications added to the Login Startup in System Prefs. Since the daemon has to be there, you should remove all others if you have any. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
