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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Authored by: madmarcel on Mar 06, '06 06:08:43PM

To all the people who say you should not disable this, and that this service does not put a load on the CPU:

On our Xserve cluster, which has no need for printing, iTunes, or any of the other stuff mentioned in the previous comments, the mDNSResponder service will regularly start using 60 to 70% of the CPUs. I made mDNSResponders dump it's internal state into the system log, and it looks like it can go completely nuts if there are too many printers and people using iTunes on your local network.

I'm going to check the other macs in the building and see if the same thing is happening to those :( (100+ Macs to check, oh joy)

Thank you so much for this hint, good riddance to that rubbish :)

And no, turning mDNSResponder off has no effect on a headless machine :) OS X Desktop? Who needs it :D



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