Allright, I started up my MBP and I see two processes mds and mdsworker running at 141%. I didn't even open anything. What is this process and why is it running so high. I mean within minutes, my cpu is at 70C.
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Okay wth
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The tasks are indexing your drive with spotlight. But the pegging of the processor along the way, I thought, was supposed to have been fixed...
The tasks are indexing your drive with spotlight. But the pegging of the processor along the way, I thought, was supposed to have been fixed...
How long is it supposed to take to spotlight to index? I didn't tell it to index...
EDIT: It stopped now. Thank goodness. It took about a minute for firefox to open.
EDIT: It stopped now. Thank goodness. It took about a minute for firefox to open.