Alternatively, you may use four other methods to force quit a frozen Mac app. You can check for more details on a specific process by double-clicking on it in the Activity Monitor. However, when there is a big load on the CPU and you decide to open Activity Monitor, then it will take a huge amount of the CPU resources just to open itself.
Just as discussed in this guide, if you notice an app or process that uses a lot of your memory, disk, CPU, etc. You can check Activity Monitor for any uncommon apps or processes that drain your system resources and stop them.
However, you may accidentally stop useful processes this way and scanning for malware manually can get truly demanding. Therefore, you should consider using a third-party security solution such as MacKeeper to help you quickly and efficiently scan for malware through all your files. With over 5 years of supporting Mac users, Ruslana lives and breathes everything Mac. Tech expert, Apple lover, and well, a cutie. Say hi on LinkedIn! Oops, something went wrong. We use cookies to create the best online experience.
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For instance, there are a few perfectly normal processes that can cause CPU spikes: mds and mdworker: Those are Spotlight indexing-related processes that can slow down your Mac and cause frequent CPU spikes. For more information, check this article on how to prevent your Mac from overheating Rendering: Some apps such as video editing and music production apps require a lot of your CPU resources. If your Mac is running out of memory, quitting some apps should help. Reviewing energy usage with Activity Monitor Some apps can really drain your battery and the Mac process manager can give you information on the overall energy used by each app and process.
Needless to say, the lower the numbers the better App Nap: This shows if the app uses the energy-saving App Nap technology. This graph moves from right to left Graphics Card: This shows the type of graphic card being currently used. Most MacBooks have two graphics cards; one is higher performance higher energy consumption and the other one is an integrated graphics card lower performance and lower energy consumption.
Slowness could indicate Directory problems that might be fixed by a Disk Utility Repair disk. Apr 21, AM. Yes, I know that mds is a spotlight indexing process. However it doesn't quiet down. This will continue for days. The only way to reduce it is to restart my computer. I did check the disks both my main drive and the external time machine drive using the disk utility. No problems were found on either of the disks. Not something a disk check will find, though it is a good idea to use Recovery Mode and repair your system drive.
I would also look at and remove 3rd party drivers and extensions and background processes as much as possible. Having the system on an SSD helps. Would help more to have the freedom to move the spotlight index off the sytem drive, maybe have an index for a drive be on the drives themselves.
As you suggested, I rebuilt the spotlight index. It took a few hours to reindex it all, but this morning the same problem is occuring: mds is using a lot of memory.
I've stopped as many other programs as I can. Nothing is running except for the few programs that I require. It seems like they've made the process multithreaded. Memory is about 12 GB. Apr 22, AM. Apr 22, AM in response to jthunes In response to jthunes. Clone a drive with CCC with advanced option to do checksums on all files copied and we are talking whole drive.
SoftRAID 4. TechTool Pro scans and finds weak or bad sectors but then would say "you need to zero or do a 3-way write erase with Disk Utility". Disk Utility does not look at files and whether they are valid. Dlloyd has a file integrity checker too. Can take days in some cases. And you don't know where or what files and drive volume it is that triggers this.
Sep 18, AM in response to jthunes In response to jthunes. I have the same problem, with the amount of memory mds using only limited by my disk size. I've tried every fix I've seen and the only thing that works is turning off spotlight, which is most unfortunate. How To. Hit Return or Enter to search. What is the mdworker on Mac? Igor Degtiarenko. Writer and blogger at MacPaw, curious just about everything.
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