corespotligtd issues still persisting

[Cave Man]

On Tahoe 26.0.1 Mac Studio M4 48gb RAM. I am having difficulty with corespotlightd that is worse than when I was on Sequoia. I have tried the usual fixes but they do not resolve the problem - even rebooting. It is consuming >400% cpu cycles. This beast of a computer is getting brought to its knees because of it - slow to respond, lots of kernel panics, etc. Has anyone else had similar problems? Really getting frustrated by the poor performance of my $3,000 computer.

 

[Bigwaff]

I have tried the usual fixes but they do not resolve the problem - even rebooting.

Don't know what the "usual fixes" are. Can you share what you have already tried so there isn't a series of "Try this..." posts followed by "Already did" responses.

 

[Cave Man]

I would have responded sooner, but my Mac froze again and restarted.

Here's what I have done multiple times:

Continued corespotlightd process CPU over… - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

I cannot delete the files in the CoreSpotlight folder, whether I use the Finder or sudo command from terminal. I can't even list them with 'ls'; This is a really fsk'd up monster that Apple has created.

Here's what it's been doing since the restart. It's still going and in that link the person reports half a terabyte of data in this folder! This is simply absurd. I can't work with this computer because it is not reliable.

 

[Cave Man]

Still dealing with this. Do I have to delete all the files/folders in ~/Library/Metadata/CoreSpotlight/ and reboot my computer every 3 or 4 weeks. Yet that's what I seem to have to do. The computer restarted overnight and I am sure it was because of this Pages/corespotlightd problem that has been going on for years.

 

[hangkous]

Here as well, MacBook Air 2025

 

[bogdanw]

With SIP disabled, corespotlightd can be disabled from Terminal:

launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.apple.corespotlightd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.corespotlightd

launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.apple.managedcorespotlightd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.managedcorespotlightd

To re-enable:

launchctl enable gui/$UID/com.apple.corespotlightd
launchctl enable gui/$UID/com.apple.managedcorespotlightd

and reboot

Disabling and Enabling System Integrity Protection (SIP) https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling-and-enabling-system-integrity-protection
Core Spotlight https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corespotlight