Whats this process?

[Shadow]

I just had the fans come on while using iTunes 7 and Pages-nothing heavy. I went to Activity Moniter and a process called "mds" was using ~80% CPU! What does this process do?

While I was writing this "mds" has dropped to 0.00% CPU.

Whats up?

 

[yellow]

mds = Spotlight

 

[Shadow]

Ah, excellent. It makes sense now. New stuff in Pages --> new stuff to index. Thanks!

 

[Eidorian]

http://www.google.com/search?q=mds+process+os+x

 

[Shadow]

http://www.google.com/search?q=mds+process+os+x

I tried that, it wasnt very clear (or maybe I just didn't look hard enough ).