Q: mdworker keeps running at 100%
one of my mdworker processes keeps running at 100% (which is one core of my i7 MBP Pro). Even when I completely disable indexing and search for all disks, and then even after reboot, it keeps running, consuming 100% cpu time.
How can I get control over this process again?
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Nov 18, 2013 10:38 AM
I think I found the solution (not the reason or explanation though): I rebooted into single user mode and then, without doing anything in single user mode, simply rebooted. The 100% mdworker process is gone now and indexing is going on normally, with similar load to 4-5 mdworker processes and one mdworker32 process. Don't know what was wrong, but at least this CPU hog is gone now.
Posted on Nov 18, 2013 10:51 AM