The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance
René J.V. Bertin
rjvbertin at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 10:57:09 PST 2014
On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote:
> Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and
> mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this,
> including putting every single folder except /Applications in the
> exception list for Spotlight. This is where I started editing
Did that include switching off indexing for the whole (boot) disk (mdutil -i off) followed by a reboot? That ought to have wiped your spotlight folder, presuming that the most likely performance culprit would be updating an existing (huge) database file ...
R.
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