Re: mds 99%

2008-12-22 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
At 7:21 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: Snip: Does the: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/* fix the Un-mountable Volumes? No. Those commands only deal with the Spotlight indices on functioning mounted volumes. Snip: Sometimes

mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my Dual 500 GigE. This is my fault for not running AHT immediately after my System Crashed a week ago. The crash consisted of the monitor going dark and on restart the monitor flashed briefly as the System. booted. This happened

Re: mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my Dual 500 GigE. I believe that is related to Spotlight. It will stop after awhile. Can't help you with the other ... going to bed ... good luck tomorrow? Bill Connelly

Re: mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my Dual 500 GigE. This is my fault for not running AHT immediately after my System Crashed a week ago. Clip: My immediate problem is the mds Process using all the CPU and the curious fact

Re: mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my Dual 500 GigE. I believe that is related to Spotlight. It will stop after awhile. Can't help you with the other ... going to bed ... good luck tomorrow? Bill

Re: mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread Dan
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

Re: mds 99%

2008-12-20 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
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