>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
Thank you Dan, I am not sure how: > 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. , is accomplished. I see no options for locating much less manipulating the Indices. I have always, since moving to OSX, selected MacOS Extended (Not Journaled) and never use Spotlight. I find Cmd F to be good enough. Someone on this list recommended that a few years ago. I don't know how it all ties in. Just habit from classic. Is Cmd F still Sherlock? Or does it just access Spotlight. This time, in the confusion I formatted the 80G partition as the default Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Does the: >sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* >sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* >sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/* fix the Un-mountable Volumes? ErnieG --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
