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39 GB Virtual Memory?
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I don't think "that's leopard" is a useful response without first getting a little more information.
This same problem has happened to me; leopard starts going very slow and the disk is grinding a lot, writing tons of ??? to virtual memory.
Have you seen which process is responsible? Open Activity Monitor when the system starts "lagging" like you report, and see if the process "mds" (metadata server??) is responsible.
For me, that has been the problem. It has happened when opening some non-leopard apps; Adium for example.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
This same problem has happened to me; leopard starts going very slow and the disk is grinding a lot, writing tons of ??? to virtual memory.
Have you seen which process is responsible? Open Activity Monitor when the system starts "lagging" like you report, and see if the process "mds" (metadata server??) is responsible.
For me, that has been the problem. It has happened when opening some non-leopard apps; Adium for example.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Had the same problem. mdworker is related to Spotlight indexing. When you first start Leopard, depending on your HDD size(s), it will take a while (and a lot of CPU) to index everything.
Personally, I had to disable indexing on my USB2 HDD, as it kept hanging at around 50% indexed.
Personally, I had to disable indexing on my USB2 HDD, as it kept hanging at around 50% indexed.
