The 18 hour re-install and migration to another drive finally restored my machine to a 'normal' state with all hands on deck. No beachball anymore. Life is good. I described it a few posts back. thanks
sqb On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Kay C Lan <[email protected]>wrote: > It may not be normal, but it happens. I just did a google search for > mdsworker os x slow and the first couple of hits, some from Apple Support > Forums, include phrases like, 'apps are not responding and my mac is very > very slow'. This may have been fixed with Lion but I (and many others) > certainly had the problem with SL and the above mentioned forum responses > nailed the solution. > > Stephen's Mac is not behaving normally, the symptoms seem to fit so I > offered a suggestion. Unfortunately for Stephen he appears no closer to a > solution. > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I respectfully disagree. Spotlight is designed to give up processor usage > > if something else needs it. If you get the beachball while spotlight is > > indexing, there is something wrong, and that is not normal. > > > > Bob > > > > > > On May 11, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > > > > Actually missed a big one off the list. > > > > > > Spotlight - which would show up as mdworker in Activity Monitor. If > > you've > > > added a 'new' HD, internal or external and haven't set Spotlight to > > ignore > > > it then Spotlight may take forever to process it and you will > definitely > > > end up with the beachball. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
