opendirectoryd taking up my over 90% cpu

What happens if you quit the process in Activity Monitor using the X in the top left corner?

But this solution is not for me.

How do you know that?

This is a wild guess that maybe there is a fake opendirectoryd on your system. The following will not change anything on your system, it will just provide information.

Please start an Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal session and enter the following command:

ps ax | grep '[o]pendirectoryd'

You should see something like the following, where opendirectoryd is located in /usr/libexec.

22 ?? Ss 1:11.42 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd

If you see more than 1 opendirectoryd, especially if the 2nd was located in a different directory, that would be interesting.

qianishere wrote:

There is no file shown in my mac. The file mentioned on the Step 9.

Are you saying that there is not physical directory and file

/Active Directory/EXAMPLE.COM (where EXAMPLE.COM may be the name of your Active Directory domain)

on your Mac (because if you think this, I'm fairly sure step 9 does not refer to a real directory and file)

Or that the Open Directory Utility did not have entry /Acive Directory/EXAMPLE.COM (again where EXAMPLE.COM is your Windows Domain name) listed in the Open Directory display?

And finally, "Are" you a member of a Microsoft Active Directory environment?

NOTE: I am mostly making educated guesses, as I have NEVER had my Mac participate in an Active Directory, not even my iMac at work, which is full of Windows computers and Microsoft Active Directory environments. So I'm mostly guessing, and could be totally going in the wrong direction.

You have exactly the issue described in the support article. Take Step 9.

Please launch Directory Utility again and make sure the search domain is not still there.