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 <sc...@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.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@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. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
