[DM-MUG] Figuring out what is going on in background in Tiger...

[Bryan Baker]

After a quick google it looks like what I suspected when you posted 
this: Spotlight cruising the drives for meta data (thats what the MD 
stands for).
see this page (which appears to be a dump of a man page for said 
utility): http://www.hmug.org/man/1/mdimport.php
On May 10, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> I'm sitting here working on my computer [Cube souped up per Matt = 
> excellently tho] and keep hearing little bips that tell me something 
> is processing in background.  I opened Activity Monitor to see what it 
> was and whether I should stop it.  First off I'm not sure which number 
> is most important:  %CPU, Threads, Real or Virtual Memory. Then, 
> things keep moving up and down [right now it's in sort by % CPU mode] 
> --  it was really going there for awhile but has calmed down....is 
> there a place that wll explain this to me?
>
> And what is mdimport, which seems to come to top alot.
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