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High Sierra performance problems - efilogin-helper taking a lot of CPU

I have a stock 2015 15" MacBook Pro, i7 / 16GB / 512GB, still runs on High Sierra because I am contemplating to do a full clean install instead of an upgrade. Performance has been deteriorating to a ...
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What is the touristd process doing when it downloads ~14MB on each boot?

I've noticed on my MacBook Air (early 2015 edition, macOS 10.13.3) that there is a certain 'touristd' process that launches when I turn on the computer, downloads about 14.2MB of data, then exits. ...
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Make sysctl changes at startup

I'd like to change the default smb settings at startup to remove timeouts. I have the following script; #!/bin/sh sysctl net.smb.fs.kern_deadtimer=0 sysctl net.smb.fs.kern_hard_deadtimer=0 sysctl ...
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What is mediaremoteagent under Activity Monitor?

Under activity monitor there's a process called mediaremoteagent. I can't find any information about this process. What is this process and is it safe to disable it?
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MirrorDisplays error every 30 seconds in system.log

I'm seeing an error every 30 seconds in the system log, using the Console app, complaining about MirrorDisplays service only running for 0 seconds. Nov 5 22:45:22 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (...
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