With the load-applet application installed, I can view the processes running on my n800. I notice that some of them are unnecessary, as I'm not using the media player at all times (or other things, like the alarm, whatever sapwood-server might be, bluetooth, maybe the 8 hals-addon-omap-gpio processes, etc). I was wondering if there was a list of what some of these processes are and if I can stop them from loading and taking up valuable memory. I use windows xp normally, but I assume that extra processes eat resources in maemo the same way. So, a way to stop processes from loading? Or maybe a script to kill processes that could be run at startup?

Just forget it. You don't actually know what you do and do not need, so messing around in there is just going to get you in trouble.

If you really must pursue it further, several other folks like yourself have asked the same question with the same amount of ignorance and have received more details answers, so searching around would be a good start.

Yep, the daemons are not taking up much space (and in any case the memory management is way better than in Windows). What will eat your memory is to have many web browser windows open at the same time, particularly if they've got images in them.

one i can tell you for sure that you can permanently kill that will increase performance is metalayer-crawler. if interested i cant tell you how.

Yeah, metalayer-crawler is a useless beast. See my .sig (stole it from Cato..)

I did some searching and found a thread on renaming metalayer-crawler so it doesn't start up. It doesn't seem to work for bluetooth processes (not in the same directory), but they're small anyway. I don't know how I'd go about killing the mediaplayer-engine so that it's not loaded when I'm not using it, but I don't knof if that'll give me such a great performance boost anyway.

No, as GA said earlier, don't bother. There's nothing to gain, really.