Saturday, March 28, 2009

spotlight: mds, mdworker


The processes 'mds' and 'mdworker' frequently take over my macbook and make it sound like a jet engine about to take off. Clearly this is wasting a lot of battery power...



They are apparently related to spotlight, which I never, ever use. But there are some posts about how disabling spotlight altogether screws up OS X.

Anyone know anything about this?

2 comments:

Steve said...

Can't you open spotlight preferences and exclude your entire hard drive?

p@rick said...

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. So far so good...Thanks.