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. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
