Hi John Have a look at the Console and look for any repeating entries from mdworker. I worked a server that I upgraded to 10.5 and the designers had left a folder of fonts in the RAID. Mdworker was scanning the fonts and crashing repeatedly, which in turn pushed the CPU usage for a process called 'syslogd' up to 100% as it was constantly writing logs of the crashes to the system log, 'alsmanager' was also at 100% as well. The Spotlight menu item also reported that it was constantly estimating time of completion, never able to actually give a time.
Adding the folder of fonts to the Spotlight exclude list temporarily enabled the server to work again while we scanned the corrupted fonts and removed them (all!). If nothing's crashing it could just be a case of leaving it overnight. Regards Sam providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
