Help please; mdworker

[4Torrenty]

I'm not sure what mdworker is or what it does but its hoggy up my CPU. I only had uTorrent running and I noticed my CPU sky rocket so I opened Activity Monitor expecting to see uTorrent causing the CPU percentage to rise but to my surprise it this mdworker. I'm curious what this mdworker is all about.

 

[xUKHCx]

mdworker is one of the background processes for Spotlight.

The issue here I believe is that the torrent file you are downloading is being index for spotlight each time there is a change and as the file is changing lots (due to being a torrent) it is being index a lot.

You can add the folder that you download torrents to to the spotlight privacy pane. System Preferences - Spotlight - Privacy to see if this resolves your issue.

 

[yoyo5280]

Just needed an excuse to use this site
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=MDWorker

it seems like its spotlight indexing

 

[funkymo]

hi guys,

I have the same problem with mdworker, but only since 10.5.7, why this? excluding downloading folders does not help and re-indexing the whole drive neither.

any other suggestions?


thx