If like me, you keep an eye on the Mac OSX activity monitor, then you’ve likely seen configd and wonder what the heck it is.
The Unix underpinnings of OS X delivered unto us Mac users many good things. We have protected memory, great multitasking, lots of open source software, and heaps of security.
But, as the sages of the ‘Facts of Life’ have taught us, you have to take good with the bad. Thanks to Unix being designed by geeks who were more interested in having a fast, rock solid OS and less so with having naming conventions and nice pretty UI that would make sense to non geeks we have to deal with a number of oddly named processes that may or may not be very important.
Simpy put, configd maintains dynamic configuration information about the computer and its environment (e.g. network, drives, etc).
Hi there,
you don’t happen to know what I can do if this process goes crazy?
Every once in a while (perhaps especially since I’ve had to use a UMTS-stick to go online) when I end the internetconnection, the process configd takes 90 % or more of the system resources. Working is almost impossible.
Ending the process is also almost impossible, takes too long till the computer reacts.
Putting the machine to sleep and waking it up again has no effect, configd comes up again working wildly.
After a while (many minutes) the spook ends. But I would like to know how I can end it because I can’t always wait for this and am tempted to turn the darned Mac off completely.
(Never had these problems in Tiger. Snow Leopard really gets on my nerves with a lot of things. Never had to hard quit a Mac so often since I’ve had it. Also, where has Internet Sharing gone? It did still work in Leopard.)
If sb has tips, tell me.
Regards,
Jay
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i wish someone had replied to jay’s post. configd is wreaking havoc on my system, as well — but in lion.
still seeking a solution…
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