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

[stephen barncard]

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 <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>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 <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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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco Ca. USA

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