On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:

> Just curious.... using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the
> system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and mdworker
> (user) eat up 50-90 percent of my processor? what with that?

When you're curious, don't you ever try Google?

For example, typing "mdworker" into Google will get you exactly the  
answer you desired. It's actually the first answer on Google, so you  
could use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button which returns only the most  
popular link for the searched item.


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