You’re browsing the processes on your Mac using Activity Monitor when you notice something you don’t recognize: configd. What is this, and should you be worried?
This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, mdsworker, installd, WindowServer, blued, launchd, backup, opendirectoryd, powerd, coreauthd, and many others. Don’t know what those services are? Better start reading!
You shouldn’t worry about configd—this is a core part of macOS. This particular process is a daemon, which means it runs in the background and handles critical system tasks. This particular daemon is the System Configuration Server, which means it monitors and reports on your Mac’s settings and status. To quote the configd man page:
The configd daemon is responsible for many configuration aspects of the local system. configd maintains data reflecting the desired and current state of the system, provides notifications to applications when this data changes, and hosts a number of configuration agents in the form of loadable bundles.
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