mdworker

[lah]

Updated to High Sierra a few days ago and several instances of this process (mdworker) are running non-stop in activity monitor. I understand this is for Spotlight but this is really slowing down my computer and making it run hot.
Anyone else have issues with this? Any recommendations?

 

[dianeoforegon]

If you have external drives attached, exclude in Spotlight under Privacy tab for indexing.

Boot into Recovery Drive and run Disk Utility <First Aid on your internal drive: Macintosh HD

Run the command below in Terminal to reindex Spotlight

sudo mdutil -E /