alexaltair Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 It's pain. You know. kernel_task at 90-100% eats CPU time. Here is a temporary fix for this hog: When you feel your system is slowing down click on the Spotlight icon and try to search something. After few seconds cancel searching and . Yes, it's now appears that 'mds' (Spotlight indexing???) is eating CPU, but not much and it'll go down very quickly. So, it looks like there is a bottleneck somewhere in Spotlight indexing start-up. Greet. PS welcome to much more faaaaaaaaaaster OS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I think it might be a problem unique to your install... I don't even have that task running. Spotlight will eat a bit of CPU while it does the initial index after the install, but that's about it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 just repair spotlight i.e: reset it and its indexes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269103 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Maybe. In fact you don't see that task because it's hidden. Try show all tasks... I'm not talking about Spotlight work. I think it might be a problem unique to your install... I don't even have that task running. Spotlight will eat a bit of CPU while it does the initial index after the install, but that's about it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 How to? Wonder if it'll free kernel_task from getting... just repair spotlight i.e: reset it and its indexes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
--Konstantin-- Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 I think, spotlight tries to index read-only volumes in /Volumes (NTFS for example). It can be resolved by means of creation ".metadata_never_index" file in the all of this volumes. In case of NTFS, but into Windows, run cmd.exe, and then echo "spotlight fix" > c:\.metadata_never_index echo "spotlight fix" > d:\.metadata_never_index and so on. Regards, Konstantin. How to? Wonder if it'll free kernel_task from getting... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) Maybe. In fact you don't see that task because it's hidden. Try show all tasks... I'm not talking about Spotlight work. Obviously.... That's not hidden, just system. It's launched by WindowServer, and uses 0% CPU and 8 threads (sorry didn't see it before, I was expecting it much higher up). If I launch a spotlight search I get 10~20% usage. Are you sure you let spotlight finish the initial index after the install? In my case it spun for a fair bit. Edited January 6, 2007 by consolation Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Thanks for help! I think, spotlight tries to index read-only volumes in /Volumes (NTFS for example).It can be resolved by means of creation ".metadata_never_index" file in the all of this volumes. In case of NTFS, but into Windows, run cmd.exe, and then echo "spotlight fix" > c:\.metadata_never_index echo "spotlight fix" > d:\.metadata_never_index and so on. Regards, Konstantin. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-269789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Back again. Same issue. It's appear and disapper after some time by itself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-274424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
preskush Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 bumpo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37777-kernel_task-at-100-fix/#findComment-349676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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