OS X Yosemite :: Spotlight Process Is Using 95% Of CPU Cycles And Cannot Reboot
Dec 11, 2014
The Spotlight process is using 95% of my CPU cycles and I cannot reboot or kill the process to stop it. This is a fresh install of Yosemite, in fact, I did this completely new install to fix Spotlight indexing problems, but all I did was fix the old one and uncover a new problem.
I installed Yosemite on a new 500Gb SSD, no migration from past installs whatsoever. It's fresh and clean and Spotlight finished its big index that it does upon install. But now, days later, the Spotlight process is still monopolizing my CPU. I have a Mid-2011 Mac mini, 2.7Ghz i7, it runs 2 of the 4 CPU processes to nearly maximum. What the **** is Spotlight doing? It's not indexing, I can look in Activity Monitor and see two mdworker processes but they are at 0.0% CPU utilization.
for fixing this runaway process? I am usually very good at fixing broken system processes but this one has me stumped.
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Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 30" Cinema Display
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Sep 12, 2010
I have a process running prl_vm_service and it is making my HDD very noisy. I think that spotlight keep indexing this file. Because when is shut down this process my HDD become almost silent. I would like to prevent this process to startup when I reboot my iMac. Is there a way to do this. I am aware that Parralles (this process belongs to it) needs it, but still I want to prevent this process to startup.
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Oct 29, 2010
I'm going to be selling my air and I want to do a fresh reinstall of the os . How do I do that so the new user can just turn it on and have the welcome screen with music? In the past when I tried the computer just automatically reboot and started the setup process.
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Sep 8, 2014
Problem is pretty much summarized in the topic line. Had a distnoted process that was eating up all my CPU. Killed it in Activity Monitor, and the computer hung. Forced a restart, and it won't...restart. Tried a safe reboot, resetting the NRAM...no joy.
2012 (I believe) iMac running the latest version of OS X Mavericks.
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Apr 7, 2009
While sitting idle, the fan on my Mac Pro (well, I think it's one of the fans) does this strange cycling thing. At first I thought it was a truck way off in the distance, starting and stopping. Then I realized it was my Mac Pro. Sitting with no apps running, one of the fans frequently cycles on an off audibly.
I recorded it. Have a listen. You have to listen past the low frequency rumble of the Mac and you'll hear the fan spinning up and then spinning down in cycles that are typically 8 or 10 seconds, sometimes shorter.
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Dec 9, 2014
Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite/iMac mid-2011...My iMac is really slow to start-up, to run, and to have applications run. I have 32 GB memory, 113 GB hard disk capacity and it has never been slower in its life. There is a process called "bird" that is running almost constantly whenever I run Activity Monitor and it is taking up to 140% of CPU time. What is "bird"? Why is it running constantly and eating up so much CPU time? Why is my iMac so slow running Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite?
Other issues on my iMac include: Software Update is supposed to be updating and installing updates automatically and it is not. When I log in, I see a blank white screen with an apple logo and a progress bar below. It takes forever for the progress bar to get 1/4 of the way across, then the screen flashes and the progress bar finishes the remaining 3/4 really fast. And then once logged in, it takes forever for my dock icons to appear, and my iMac hard drive is chattering like crazy even though nothing is running yet. Whenever I launch Safari I get a progress bar in the address field that goes 1/3 of the way across and frequently hangs. All of these issues never happened before Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10), Safari 8.0
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Dec 7, 2014
in previous OS versions you could tell when spotlight is indexing by clicking the spotlight icon in the toolbar and the dropdown would tell you. now in yosemite how can we tell when spotlight is indexing? because i use mail.app a lot and search won't work properly until the indexing is done.
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Dec 10, 2014
I am running a 2010 or so iMac under Yosemite updated to most recent and also same OS X on my 2011 MacBook Pro.
There are frequently times Spotlight won't find files I know are there—files I can see in a finder window pulled up next to the spotlight window that spotlight isn't finding. This is true in Mail as well. So I wanted to re-index. In these forums, I found an answer to solve the problem that said to drag my hard drive icon into the Spotlight Privacy window in system preferences and then remove it. I did the first step, and now it is listed in the "Prevent Spotlight from searching…" list. However, when I try to remove it, it won't remove. When I click on the "–" I get an error pane that says the location cannot be added or removed due to an unknown error!
How do I get my main hard drive off the list so it can be re-indexed?
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Dec 8, 2014
I updated my late 2012 27" iMac from the latest Mavericks to Yosemite. now it takes 30+ second between mouse click and action. For example, if I click on iTunes it takes 30 seconds to a minute before iTunes opens. I get the pinwheel while waiting. I rebooted and the startup hangs on the progress bar for several minutes, then black screen for several minutes, then eventually gets to desktop.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Dec 4, 2014
Spotlight works but not with mail!How to reindex mail or spotlight for mail?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Dec 11, 2014
I upgraded about a month ago from 10.6. I have since discovered that Spotlight will show up search results using a Western Digital external drive but no results when I use my Seagate Back Up Plus external drive, which is the main drive I use. How to get Spotlight to get to search the Seagate drive?
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 21.5" Mid July 2011
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Dec 4, 2014
After installing Yosemite on my iMac, Spotlight search results are minimal if at all (only contacts pop up)
I've adjusted Spotlight preferences by unchecking all search areas and rearranging the order of search preferences so documents, files and contacts are the only areas to search and still no luck.
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Dec 3, 2014
I have recently upgraded to Yosemite but when I use Spotlight to search for a file spotlight does not search or include any files on my external hard drive. I have had one community member suggest to explicitly check the Spotlight index via command line. I tried to follow his instructions but my limited skills produced a zero. Unfortunately, he hasn't replied back for further instruction.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Dec 4, 2014
Spotlight shortcut does not work. When I press ctrl + space, nothing happen. When I click on magnifier icon by mouse, everything work well.
In Spotlight configuration and also in keyboard shortcut configuration this shortcut is present and marked as active.
I've also tried to disable and enable back this shortcut but it still not work.
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MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Dec 3, 2014
I can search fine with Spotlight but when I click the result the spotlight freezes - right in the middle of the screen..If I click a text file it does not open the text file after unfreezing..So basically spotlight is completely useless.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
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Dec 12, 2014
I have seen Spotlight. it is working fine as long as I use Latin characters. Since I work with Tibetan, I was used to search for Tibetan words across and within files. When updating to Yosemite, both Spotlight and Preview stopped working properly with Tibetan. I have checked with various friends and all have the same issue: Yosemite indexing and search methods have changed from Maverick to Yosemite.
letters of the alphabet are still indexed (like ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་), but when they are combined (like རྒ་), spotlight is the blue, giving no answer. Again, this used to work very well before. I have tried reindexing, following Apple's suggestion (URL....), but no success. It seems to be related to the indexing method itself. This is a big issue as we are used to search with Finder—a feature that is normally powerful in OSX..Spotlight works well with simple letters...But no result with a simple stack (ར and ག on top of each other):
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Sep 5, 2010
yesterday, the battery health went from 96% to 54%, and now every day 1% goes to the Creator
Yes I calibrated regularly
Maybe it has to do with $
Live long and prosper was the initial idea, wasn't it?
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Now, obviously I don't want that to happen and took a look at my load cycles. The MBP has been on for about 3-4 hours now and the load cycle is at 224.
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My Macbook's battery has done 902 cycles and is on 92% health.
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The health has gone down from 100% to 92% in the space of about 3 months? Maybe more. Is that a sign that I should change it?
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Ok, so I have a 2009 uMB 2.4 with 4GB/500GB and my battery cycle count with coconut Battery states it is at 418 Cycles and the Life states 96%, my question is?Is that good
How many cycles should I get out of the battery
This is the unibody MacBook the one they are calling the Classic uMB and I have had this since it was new, I bought this around February 2009, so just under 2 years old.
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Jan 26, 2009
I know that the new 17 MBP can go through 1000 cycles or so of battery use. But what can the 13" MBA go through?
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Jun 30, 2009
hey guys iv never metioned it but my battery on my MBP came with about 15 or more cycles , is that normal?
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Oct 10, 2009
how many cycles is expected from a aluminium 13'' MBP battery?
im currently on 21 cycles. and that is in like a month and a half maybe 2 months
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Jun 14, 2012
Here's the battery info:
Cycles 47
Current Max 1269 mAh
Age 3.1 years
My older battery (this is my second one) is in much better shape than this one.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 23, 2014
The MacBook Pro is a 13' unit. it was replaced with a SSD drive. The battery has 327 charging cycles on it. Sometimes when using battery only the machine will start to boot up, will get the logo then immediately shut down, screen goes black then the process continues, once I connect the AC power the Macbook boots correctly. Should also mention that the circuit board that controls the charging of the battery was also replaced (outside of warranty period) several months ago as well.
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imac g5, Mac Mini, MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Sep 3, 2010
My AppleCare expires on Monday September 6th, and I am wondering if my 87% capacity at 51 battery cycles suggests I should visit an Apple Store this weekend? The closest store is around 25 miles away, so if I would be wasting my time, I would rather not take the trip. My concern is mostly based on my warranty ending. This is a 2009 13" MBP.
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Dec 12, 2010
Just hit 500 load cycles on my battery and still going strong 99% capacity and I just re calibrated yesterday. I know this isn't a misread because I monitor my battery roughly every 2 weeks or so. Macbook is the Macbook 5,2 mid 2009 version, coming up to its 2nd birthday
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Manufacturer:SMP
Device name:ASMB016
Pack Lot Code:0000
PCB Lot Code:0000
Firmware Version:0110
Hardware Revision:0200
Cell Revision:0102
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh):4977
Fully charged:Yes
Charging:No
Full charge capacity (mAh):4977
Health Information:
Cycle count:503
Condition:Normal
Battery Installed:Yes
Amperage (mA):0
Voltage (mV):12541
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I'm currently using MBA 13 inch new generation. I knew batteries of Apple notebooks have a 1000 cycles battery.
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