"installd" is a completely undocumented (outside of Apple) daemon that is somehow involved in installing your software (it runs while installing App store programs) and checking to see what updates you might need. It has no user visible existence. No one would ever know about it unless they ran "ps" or something similar. They will find no hint at what it does, or if killing it is safe.
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"installd" is a completely undocumented (outside of Apple) daemon that is somehow involved in installing your software (it runs while installing App store programs) and checking to see what updates you might need. It has no user visible existence. No one would ever know about it unless they ran "ps" or something similar. They will find no hint at what it does, or if killing it is safe.
Thanks for the explanation. I still don't think it's a good example in the context of this thread. My impression is similar to onli's:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699158