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    Crashes on mds

    Hi there, getting many many many crashes in the background in mds. The process says: mds [9937] but I'll get many within 4-20 minutes of each other. Sometimes mds [8109], mds [7949] etc Usually, I never see anything happen as its in the background. However, I get kernel panics recently. Mac...
  2. halloleo

    How to avoid spotlight to read/write to an external drive?

    I have an external Time Machine drive "Follow" which I do not want to be used by Spotlight. So I made sure it is in Spotlight's exclusion list: However I can still (even after hours) here the external disk churning away. Looking at the open files with Sloth (a GUI to `lsof`) I get: This...
    • halloleo
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    • external disk lsof mds mds_stores spotlight
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  3. NecRosex

    Need help; PhotoLibraryd constantly running and mds indexing

    Ok, so ever since I updated to the latest beta, it never stopped indexing and "photolibraryd" always runs in the background, console is posting errors every second as can be seen in the screenshot below. MacBook Pro 13" 2018 lasts only about 3 hours on battery doing mostly nothing or watching a...
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    MacBook Pro reboots at night after disabling hyper-threading to fully mitigate MDS / ZombieLoad

    My wife and I recently followed Apple's steps to disable hyper-threading. My wife did it first a few days ago, and then started complaining that her computer had shut down when she would open it up in the morning. I didn't make the connection, and figured there was just some strange issue going...
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    • crash hyper-threading mds zombieload
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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