How to control Login and Background items in System Settings, how to identify those you might not recognise, and how to use sfltool for advanced diagnostics and reset.
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How DAS gathers its budgets and loads lists of activities. When rescoring permits, it then dispatches the process to initiate backup. Re-scheduling has changed in Sequoia, as shown here.
Easy to code, these don’t need to use XPC although it’s used by the DAS-CTS scheduling and dispatch system. They aren’t run at constant time intervals, but when appropriate according to other loads.
How does XProtect Remediator scan your Mac once a day? What has gone wrong when it doesn’t appear to work? Explained from its property lists to its three different types of scan.
There’s normally more than 500 background activities, like Time Machine backups and XProtect Remediator scans, waiting for dispatch in the list maintained by DAS. How this works.
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