Application debris

Occasionally I look around and realize that maybe I ought to kill off some applications that have been running unused for quite some time eating resources and generally contributing to system sluggishness.

The nice thing about MacOS X is that we can do this and it's stable enough that it just works but I do seem to have a bad habit of developing a significant amount of what you might call application debris. I was lazy about leaving a lot of apps running under MacOS 8/9, but this is getting pretty silly.

The bad thing is that this list doesn't include all the background applications and server processes that normally run (Apache, JBoss, a couple perl apps, a python server app that I'm playing with, mysql and so forth).