On 11/2/14 12:57 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote:
Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and
mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this,
including putting every single folder except /Applications in the
exception list for Spotlight. This is where I started editing
Did that include switching off indexing for the whole (boot) disk (mdutil -i
off) followed by a reboot? That ought to have wiped your spotlight folder,
presuming that the most likely performance culprit would be updating an
existing (huge) database file ...
R.
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Trust me. I tried everything. Resetting the SMC, PRAM, permissions,
manually deleting the .Spotlight folder from /. Anything I could find on
any Apple related blog/forum, I tried it.
Even going so far as to exclude lots of folders from my home Library
folder, the same for System Library folder, my external drive, Bootcamp
partition...none of it mattered.
The only thing that had any affect was to stop the mdworker services and
the syslogd service. That is the only time the CPU usage dropped and the
fans started slowing. Of course, right after I rebooted, they started
back up again.
Somewhere in the middle of all that I probably forgot to revert an edit
on one of the plist files and thats when it stopped booting to the GUI.
Single-user mode was the only way, which required manually mounting my
external drives and copying my user folder to it.
Booted to my Mavericks USB installer, completely wiped the main drive,
installed Mavericks, and upgraded to Yosemite. Then booted to
single-user again, and restored my user home folder.
From that point, mdworker did its initial indexing, and then dropped
down to normal usage. Now the fans only spin up when I am actually doing
something like compiling something under MacPorts.
Jeff
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