[Tyler McAdams]

According to top I have a process called "mds" that is averaging 90% cpu time.

Does anybody know what this process is?

[Hal Itosis]

metadata server
(any proc starting with 'md' is part of Spotlight)

[Tyler McAdams]

Originally Posted by Hal Itosis 

metadata server
(any proc starting with 'md' is part of Spotlight)

So I take it it's indexing my computer? I've got over 1.5 terabytes worth of data on this thing... I'm guessing just let it run over night?

[Judge_Fire]

Yes, unless there are errors that are causing it to crash and restart.

I had that in Tiger, the Console showed me that the indexing process was crashing due to a corrupt font, bounced back, crashed and so on. Perhaps this is handled better in 10.5.

[Tyler McAdams]

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire 

Yes, unless there are errors that are causing it to crash and restart.

I had that in Tiger, the Console showed me that the indexing process was crashing due to a corrupt font, bounced back, crashed and so on. Perhaps this is handled better in 10.5.

Well my indexing seems to have finished now... hopefully there were no problems... but that's a lot of data not to have one single problem.