[OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

[Kay C Lan]

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 <bobs at 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.
>
>
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