At 12:16 AM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: >Dual 500 GigE. >OS10.4.11 > >A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU
That's Spotlight, running from the root account. From your description, most likely the Spotlight index on one or more of your disk volumes has been corrupted. If Spotlight finishes in a few hours - then all's good. If it doesn't, then you need to turn off indexing, erase the indices, then turn indexing back on -- and let it run until it's finished. Note that Spotlight's indexing process, in Tiger, is a bit buggy. It corrupts things if the indexing process is interrupted. So DO NOT shutdown or sleep. It's ok to use the machine while it's running, just don't shutdown or sleep until it's done. From your administrator account, issue these three commands from Terminal: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/* They must be done exactly as-is - they are case sensitive. Once that's done, let your system run - DO NOT shut it down or let it sleep until the mds and mdutil processes do their thing, then go back to being idle. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
