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What process grabs my HD & CPU?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Just curious... hadn't noticed it before new PB w/Tiger, but I've finally caught it with Terminal and top -u...
I'll be writing along in something simple like TextEdit or surfing in Safari (pun apologies) and I hear my HD get all active and Menu Meters show CPU acting up.
Terminal (top) shows some process called mds is using about 25%.
Google didn't show me anything interesting about mds+unix...
Can anyone say what my sys is doing? Receiving alienware from Alpha Centauri?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Try searching mds + spotlight. That's what it is.
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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It's Spotlight indexing your drive in the background.
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Hmmm...
Well, this mds doesn't use THAT much of my cpu... but wouldn't it be nice if there were a little app that could be used to LOWER its priority - limiting it to 10% or so?
(Seems like there used to be something back in Jagwire days. Anybody remember name?)
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Moderator Join Date: May 2001
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It's a system process and thus I wouldn't do that. In my experience, it'll just take time in the beginning until all existing files are fully indexed. After that, spotlight doesn't chew up lots of cpu time on the machine.
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Renicer.app, not sure if it works with Tiger though.......
Can also be done with Terminal commands too 
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If you mount external drives, it helps to put them in the private area of the spotlight prefs. I cloned a drive and it was sucking as much as my computer did at first when I plugged it in. I got fed up with it and just put it in private. I don't really search my FW drive anyway.
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