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One potential fix for a Parallels-related slowdown
Authored by: jsutton on Jul 25, '07 11:11:52AM

I am the person who posted the info regarding how to run a "kill -stop" command on the llipd process (it is listed as being posted as anonymous... not sure why though). Not that I really care that I get "credit" for it... I wanted to clarify a little bit more as related to the comment by robg:

I also see that llipd is using little or no "processor" time, but it seems to "pause" the system a tiny bit of time every so often when it is running. I noticed it when I was right-clicking on items... there was a tiny pause before the context window opened.

At first I thought I was imagining things, but then I ran a fs_usage command:

"sudo fs_usage"

When you run this command, you see what the system is doing real-time. And I noticed that every time that llipd was listed, there was a pause before listing the next task.

So, I ran the sudo kill -stop command. I did some speed testing and responsiveness testing with various tasks and there was definitely a lag with llipd running. So, I have been pausing it whenever I am not running parallels. I also disable the 2 parallels network configs in the network system prefs (Parallels Host-Guest and Parallels NAT)... of course you will have reenable them and llipd if you want to run parallels.




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One potential fix for a Parallels-related slowdown
Authored by: mart_teenie on Jul 31, '07 01:40:01PM

i installed parallels today. noticed mega slow internet connections as opposed to usual. but, cannot find llipd in command line.

(had a major panic when i did the fs_usage command and loads of lines of scripts started appearing - plus I am so very painfully new to Macs that I had to just terminate the terminal to get out of it so didn't get much use out of the info there)

in windows you do the CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to the processes, how do you do that on a mac?



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One potential fix for a Parallels-related slowdown
Authored by: |2uso on Jul 31, '07 09:45:45PM

While I can confirm this annoying Parrallels-4560-only bug(feature?) I can't stop it with this "llipd" tip.

This bug it's preaty obvious when you switch to one cpu (the only "easy" way to cancel the freaking MacBook Pro's electric noise). It generate a 2-5 seconds system pause, delay, freeze, you name it... Really annoying indeed.

The only way I found to resolve this issue was uninstalling Parallels 4560 and rolling back to 4124. Kinda drastic uh?

I'll dig on Parallels forums about this problem. Any useful discovery that obtains I'll post it here to complement "Anonymous" thread... hehehehe...



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