Logic 8 Tips: How To Stop Memory Eating Daemons (i.e. Entourage Database Daemon)

One of the important things to run the Logic 8 smoothly is to give it an ability to use the CPU and Memory. So I would quit all other applications while I am using Logic 8, remove applications that isn't needed, such as Logitec Harmony Remote programs etc.

If you are using Micrsoft Entourage, you will also notice that it runs "Database Deamon" in the background, and there seems to be no way of keeping it from running even after you exit the Entourage applications. This is a nasty background application for Logic 8 users because it is a Power PC application so it requires memory hogging Rosetta virtual CPU environment, and on top of that, it will access the disk and more than 1 GB of memory!

Fortunately there is a way to stop this after exiting Entourage. Here is how.

• Go to your application folder. You will find the top level of where your Entrougage is located.
• From that finder window, do a search on "Database Utility". In my case it is stored under Microsoft Office 2004 -> Office -> Database Utility
• Click the Database Utility
• Select the Main Identity database if it is not selected. If there are more of them, you will need to repeat the each step.
• Select "Set database preference"
• Press Continue
• Deselect "Perform Database Integrity check in the background" checkbox.
  
• Save

That should prevent the database integrity checking to run after exiting the Enorourage application.

I usually keep the "Activity Monitor" utility always available in my dock, and whenever I see any performance issues, I will take a look at which processes are taking up the most memory or CPU cycles.