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Continuous 'Service Exited in system log

I get the following continuously in my system log. Any advice on what it is and how to stop it?

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Jun 5 16:57:09 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.0A000000-0500-0000-0000-000000000000[2292]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:12 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.03000000-0700-0000-0000-000000000000[2286]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:12 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.05000000-0700-0000-0000-000000000000[2289]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:13 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.0E000000-0500-0000-0000-000000000000[2285]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:13 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.0B000000-0500-0000-0000-000000000000[2291]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:47 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.0A000000-0600-0000-0000-000000000000[2324]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:48 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.0E000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000[2326]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

Jun 5 16:57:49 [MY MAC NAME] com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.single.01000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000[2325]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[168]

MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 5, 2020 9:07 AM

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kemlath

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Posted on Jun 16, 2020 12:20 AM

The real problem seems to be the mds_stores process since the "Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[6]" messages stop once indexing is finished (i.e. when all mdworker_shared instances have stopped and no new ones are created).

Then mds_stores continues to run for days at 30 to 100% CPU writing 10GB/Day to disk and keeping the fans running continuously.

I've stopped the indexing using mdutil, cleared the index, rebuilt the index etc. It always ends up with mds_stores running amok

This problem appeared right after the Security Update 2020-003 on Mojave.

Currently the only way to fix this is by stopping the indexing service rendering Spotlight inoperable.

In short Security Update 2020-003 broke Spotlight

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