Processes eating CPU cycles.

[WinterMute]

Anyone have any idea what the process called "mdimportserver" is about?

It's eating cycles on my PowerBook, sometimes up to 98%, and the fan is running constantly at the moment.

I've restarted and repaired permissions etc,

It's only been there for the last few days.

I'm on 10.4.2

 

[skunk]

My guess is it's to do with Spotlight: it's a "metadata import" thing. You must have some drive it keeps trying to index.

 

[WinterMute]

My guess is it's to do with Spotlight: it's a "metadata import" thing. You must have some drive it keeps trying to index.

Got nothing hanging on the ports at the moment, I tried reattaching the LaCie's in case I'd interrupted their indexing, but it didn't do anything.

I've got a widget or two misbehaving at the moment though, I'll play around with those.

Thanks.