One way to eliminate Spotlight as a possible cause (or prove it) is to drag his entire hard drive into the Spotlight Privacy tab. He may need to restart after that (there is a way to quit the actual processes but may as well just restart).
Bob On May 15, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Kay C Lan 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 <b...@twft.com> 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 >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode