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

[Ray Bowler]

One comment is that Spotlight is always indexing the drive.  When you 
are writing something, downloading something, changing and image, it 
will be indexing. I expect that it does wait until the file is 
written to disk. My understanding is that the System folder is not 
indexed. Using Spotlight to find Automator turned up a lot of things 
but not the Automator folder in System > Library.

On my initial install the 12 Gs I have on the HD were indexed within 
a couple of minutes.

>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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