Mac: Change services boot method for possible performance boost

[ClaraLeigh]

Hey team,

I am noticing the occasional bottleneck on Mac when things get busy, things seem to slow down more than it should. It feels like its hitting a open file limit, CPU limit or memory limit and then things just crawl.

Part of me is leaning towards this occurring because the services, like MySQL are child processes of the Herd application and I vaguely remember that child processes inherit the parent limits. Another thought was that there was some sort of prioritisation drop because its a child process of a background app.

I know other apps like DBngin boot these services using launchd. Which I believe avoids these problems by default.

Without diving deep into the code of the app, do you think we could look at changing this launch method?
For now, I will probably swap back to DBngin, as there it seems to avoid the sudden drops in performance.

Note: I have compared things like redis and mysql config in DBngin to that of Herd and there doesn't seem to be a difference. Which is why my investigations have kinda narrowed down on how its booted.