want_a_mac Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hi! Does anyone know what a "mds process" is according to activity monitor it is eating up about 40% of my cpu sources / Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
want_a_mac Posted April 15, 2006 Author Share Posted April 15, 2006 Ok i did a little research MDS is a spotlight process. It's way of indexing files.. I came up with this suggestion From this website(there is more info on the site) http://www.macintouch.com/tiger12.htmlMay 11, 2005 Spotlight Jeff Hirsch I can confirm that there are issues with Spotlight hogging the CPU under certain circumstances. In particular, the mds (metadata) process and mdimport process can eat up a huge chunk of available CPU and RAM. Upwards of 80% at times, causing a very noticeable slowdown on even the fastest of machines. A quick search for "mds cpu" in the 10.4 Discussions over at Apple shows that a number of users are dealing with the same issue. Here is what I did to fix the problem and some thoughts on possible causes. First the fix: 1) Using the mdutil command-line utility in Terminal, turn off indexing for each of your drives. example: $ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1 $ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2 2) Then use mdutil to remove the indexes from each drive $ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1 $ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2 3) Physically remove the .Spotlight directories from the root of each drive. $ cd / $ sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100 (do the same for your second or third drive) BE CAREFUL WITH THAT RM COMMAND! One typo could ruin your day. 4) Use mdutil again to turn indexing back on for each drive $ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1 $ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2 5) Spotlight will now re-index all drives and should behave in a normal fashion. (No longer uses 60%-80% of your CPU) The question is should i also do it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/#findComment-96805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeze Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 i did what that website said but it didn't make any difference Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/#findComment-248526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 It stinks but sometimes it takes a reinstall to get Spotlight to behave on a Hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/#findComment-248539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86Geek Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I had the same problem. Just let it run until all files are indexed. It will then go back to normal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/#findComment-248735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
som3on3 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 ok.... what happenes if you will let the indexing off?? why do you need indexing? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14756-mds-process-eating-up-my-sources/#findComment-294394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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