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osx - Why does MDS run wild in Mac OS X 10.6? - Super User

If you find your Mac’s fan working extra hard, and CPU spiking, it may be due to spotlight trying to index data it doesn’t need to.  Run the command below to see what Spotlight is actively indexing.

sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker | egrep "open"

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