Greeting forum members! I cannot understand why safari makes mds/spotlight go crazy? Could it be bookmark indexing? It's the most aggravating thing to have your CPU tied up by mds going bonkers at 95-100%. I do have quite a few bookmarks. But this makes no sense whatsoever!? Is there anything I can do about this? Takes 10-20 minutes to get it to settle down from mds taking over my cpu. When I check things in Activity Monitor and double click on safari and get the Open Files and Port report, here's what I find at the end of the list everytime:
/Users/donniedixon/Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources/tokrule BE.data
/dev/random
Thank you for listening!
G4/867DP-MDD,
Mac OS X (10.5.6),
2gigs ram 250x2 HD's
The reference of HistoryIndex refers to a file in your User Account>Library>Safari folder.
Try this: go to that location via the Finder: Move to the trash the History.plist and Historyindex files. Then restart Safari. See if corrects the CPU overload problem.
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