instant.human Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 hey folks. i know that mdworker is for indexing spotlight and such and that sometimes it comes up and does the stuff mdworkers do usually but yesterday it started and is consuming like 99,9% of my cpu. all the time and since yesterday. i closed the lid on my macbook, specs later, to not make it run like hell all night and all morning when i was at school, but now its there again and working like hell. what did i do recently... nothing. nothing big at least, some downloading, some occasional movie-watching, the things i usually do. i did install photoshop cs3 again, but does that really make mdworker work for like 24 hours? my specs are macbook black 2ghz core2duo 1gb ram 120gb hdd (external, not plugged in atm and since the mdworker does its work, 750gb) mac os x leopard 10.5.2 i have never experienced that before and it ****es me off... it cant be 10.5.2, since i installed it the day it came out and until yesterday, nothing happened... however, does it stop one day or what? thanks! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted February 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 19, 2008 Download onyx and run the scripts to clean your caches and rebuild your spotlight index. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
instant.human Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 that did help, great. i just didnt have on my mind that i got onyx installed. thanks, giga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I've had that happen a couple times to me, so i just usually Force Quit it in Activity Monitor. It usually starts up on its own a little later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
instant.human Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 i didnt know if this was a safe thing to do... force-quit always sounds so... hard. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 i didnt know if this was a safe thing to do... force-quit always sounds so... hard. ;) Don't worry, it doesn't do any harm. :laugh: I think it just gets stuck on a file or something when it's going through the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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