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Taipan
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May 30, 2005, 08:47 AM
 
Hi!

While troubleshooting my jumping mouse pointer under Tiger I noticed that the command "top" shows the process "mdimport" more than once, sometimes twice, three at the moment. Activity monitor shows only one. Does it do that on your systems, too?
     
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May 30, 2005, 09:02 AM
 
Yes. That is normal.
     
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May 30, 2005, 09:08 AM
 
Originally Posted by Angus_D
Yes. That is normal.
Care to explain why ? mdimport is a part of Spotlight, no ?

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Taipan  (op)
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May 30, 2005, 03:50 PM
 
OK, thanks for the answer!
     
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Jun 11, 2005, 09:19 PM
 
I've just noticed that there is more than one mdimport running. One is running under my user name, the other is under the user "nobody." Are you sure this is normal? What is the user "nobody" for? I would think that mdimport would run under system or root user.
     
   
 
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