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Always trying to battle slowness. I look in activity monitor and now look in not only CPU but Disk, anyone know what these are:

This is not from one session, these below are greatest hits of things from over 2 weeks which I have no idea what they are, thanks!

AGM services
Kernal Task.. (pity just says that so often)
Nsursessiond
lauchnd
lsd
coreysymbolicationd
accountsd
trustd
kextd
iconserviced (this is not so bad now after doing that procedure in system tinker month ago)
analyticsd
routined
secinitd
cfprefsd
callserviceagent
windowserver
Electron Helper
mdsynced
logd
mobileasseytd
iconvicesd
CCX process

All of those tasks can be summed up in a single word MacOS. Those are all system tasks and therefore will run the most often and will generally be major users of system resources. The secret for more speed in that case is...

1. A faster CPU with more cores
2. More memory
3. Faster Storage

Even with a new and much faster computer, the tasks in your list will still show up as major users of CPU cycles but there is no help for that.

Joe, great thanks!

Man, those worried me, Ok my imac 27" which still feels and looks new and seems like I got yesterday is going on 5 years old.

So I probably wont have an improvement then till I get new 27". I'll keep this till I cannot anymore..

Good to hear those are all systems things, LSD even!