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

[Matthew Wheeler]

Yeah, Spotlight will index the drive and it may take many hours. I've 
heard of reports that an index took over 10 hours on a very large and 
full HDD.

Matthew

On May 10, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:

> 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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