Comments on: Shining Spotlight problems in Leopard - Updated

By: Ed Maruyama

Ed Maruyama — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:19:38 +0000

hi there! yup, it’s quite frustrating… I’m also having problems with Spotlight! I have +3200 HOURS for an estimate regarding indexing a 200Gb HD (and it’s no even “full”!!)

No need to say I’ve cancelled it… and unloaded spotlight…. I’ve tried to rebuild the database several times, and I keep getting “crazy” amount of hours …

if mds is running, temperature goes to +90C with fan blowing @ full speed with a sluggish computer (as CPU’s 100%), so I’ve tried to renice those processes at no luck… keeps loading back to 100% CPU… and slowing things down…

I’d love to see TimeMachine work… but it requires spotlight…

Ideas?

TIA,
Ed

By: pball

pball — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:48:43 +0000

I’m having trouble with the Spotlight database eating up all the free space on my drive…I got a “Drive almost full” dialog a bit ago, I archived close to 30 gigs of files, and literally four hours later I got the “Drive full” warning again. Enabled viewing hidden files in Finder and sorted / by size, Spotlight-VT100 was close to FIFTY GIGS (for ~300GB of files); I threw it out and rebuilt to no avail, it just keeps eating up every bit of space I have, down to less that 50 megs left on the drive, so I had to disable Spotlight altogether.

Any Ideas?

By: Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:34:44 +0000

Hello! I too am having difficulty with spotlight searching external drives attached to a 10.5.1 server running on a mac pro. It is inconsistent in returning search information. It works OK off the internal drive.

Any ideas? We have rebuilt the spotlight database twice now. ?

The external drive is 5 320 GB Sata 3 disks stripped together for speed.

Steve

By: Darren Mason

Darren Mason — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:14:04 +0000

I have the same problems with my Macbook Pro. I thought that Leopard was a bloated mess at first. As it turns out Spotlight was constantly indexing unnecessarily. In Safari I was getting spinning beachballs every few minutes and it seemed like Spotlight was actually indexing my browser cache as it was created, causing pages to load slower.

I added Macintosh HD to the Spotlight privacy list and now it’s like I have a whole new computer! Everything is quick. I would like to have manual indexing controls in the spotlight pref pane. For now I have Quicksilver index my home folder, and that covers most of my needs.

I figure there is either a bug with indexing in 10.5 and 10.5.1 or my spotlight config got corrupted when I did an upgrade install….or maybe both.