Mac Mini and Time Capsule

[jawes]

Hi,

After connecting my time capsule to the Mac Mini 2012 and starting the backup process, I experienced the fan going wild, temperature CPU going up to 90 Celsius. Checking the process monitor there were several mdworker and mds processes running and using 80% or higher of the CPU. And the mds process takes almost 1 GB of memory.

So I stopped the time machine backup and everything went back to normal.

Any idea why the time machine process has such an impact on the resources?

 

[Woodcrest64]

The initial backup takes a load on your mac at first. Afterwards when it does the smaller periodic backups they will take much less of your computer's processing power.

Hi,

After connecting my time capsule to the Mac Mini 2012 and starting the backup process, I experienced the fan going wild, temperature CPU going up to 90 Celsius. Checking the process monitor there were several mdworker and mds processes running and using 80% or higher of the CPU. And the mds process takes almost 1 GB of memory.

So I stopped the time machine backup and everything went back to normal.

Any idea why the time machine process has such an impact on the resources?

 

[warvanov]

The Time Machine process does a lot of organization and requires lots of processor power. It's not merely transferring files to the Time Capsule hard drive.

 

[Edie Brickell]

If you are backing up your data for the first time on time capsule via time machine it will take a lot of time and the hard drive will become hotter than normal temperature. Do not worry just wait for the full backup then the drive will work normally. Keep your backup upto date no one knows when the data loss disaster will happen.