[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Scott Rossi]

I did just now.  If you're a conspiracy theorist, these lines, which appear
dozens of times, are pretty good:

9/12/12 10:51:46 PM    MasterControlProgram connection attempt made.
9/12/12 10:52:25 PM    MasterControlProgram ** WE ARE __NOT__ CONNECTED **

I was concerned for a moment until I realized this is from my online backup
application.  At least, I think it is.

Nothing else immediate that I can see, but there's a ton of stuff in there.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design


Recently, Phil Jimmieson wrote:

> Have you looked into the console logs to see if anything interesting shows up?
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 13 Sep 2012, at 06:07, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Spotlight processes that I read about are mds and mdworker.  I haven't
>> changed anything significant lately (that I think is significant) but the
>> system might think otherwise.  I just don't know what else to look for.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight
>>>> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the
>>>> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain
>>>> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What are you looking for in Activity Monitor? mdworker not Spotlight is
>>> what you are looking for. Also, you can see the pulsating dot in the
>>> Spotlight magnifying glass.
>>> 
>>> Have you changed anything recently? New HD, new External HD, new
>>> TimeMachine HD or TimeCapsule.
>>> 
>>> I have TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner backups and if they ever run
>>> simultaneously then things can bog down, so I'll pause one.
>>> 
>>> Other than that the worst I've ever had is Spotlight indexing, and it's
>>> just as you describe.
>>> 
>>> Good luck.