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mds run amok?

kansaigaijin

03-16-2006, 02:23 AM

Activity monitor shows a process 'mds' owned by root using all available CPU cycles, 90+ %!

anyone tell me what this does?

bramley

03-16-2006, 08:45 AM

It's Spotlight.

You might solve the issue just by restarting.

[EDIT unless as MBHockey points out below it's reindexing]

MBHockey

03-16-2006, 09:09 AM

Is Spotlight reindexing?

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