Continuous 'Service Exited in system log

Good to contacted Apple with feedback. Now it's hilarious. It's been going one on the last many builds.

Crazy and now in Big Sur as well. That *****

I also disabled anything Spotlight and it's gone so for sure that's the problem.

Yea guy's i'm super surprised to.

I'm sure it's not only some of us who have this. It's everyone people just don't know it happen.

It is only us geeks who goes into logs and stuff who notices this.

Normal people don't know this and just use there Mac's but i'm also sure if this keeps doing this in the background. It slows things down.

So yes we need to tell Apple every 2 weeks otherwise they don't mind i think.

It would have been fixed long time ago if they did. Think about about it. Now also in Big Sur ???? What

CAW68 wrote:

Having this same issue which is causing frequent slow downs, beach balling, crashes (especially in Lightroom). Having big issues with Lightroom--drains battery faster than ever before and will go black in the middle of working in the program.

Read through the replies and ran EtraCheck. Could someone give me some input based on my report, please? I've already deleted some of the files listed in the report such as Flip4Mac, Wacom files, etc.

Thanks,

CAW

Run Disk Utility First Aid on the SSD. I would even run First Aid on the Container which will require you to click on "View" within Disk Utility and selecting "Show All Devices" so that the Container and the physical drive appear on the left pane of Disk Utility so you can select the Container. Even if First Aid shows everything as "Ok" click on "Details" and look to see whether there are any unfixed errors. If there are any unfixed errors, then you need to backup the drive and erase it to put down a fresh file system before restoring the backup.

See if your laptop qualifies for this free Apple SSD repair program:

https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-solid-state-drive-service

FYI, here is the current list of the publicly acknowledged free repair programs for various Apple products (some products such as your laptop have multiple programs available):

https://support.apple.com/service-programs

I can confirm this is still happening on Big Sur Beta 8.

I used dtruss to get a bit more info

sudo dtruss -n mds

 ...

 2800/0xe4de:  open_nocancel("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Resources\0", 0x1100004, 0x0)		 = 6 0
 2800/0xe4de:  fstatfs64(0x6, 0x70000CACAC78, 0x0)		 = 0 0
 2800/0xe4de:  getdirentries64(0x6, 0x7FC60C026C00, 0x0)		 = 2080 0
 2800/0xe4eb:  workq_kernreturn(0x100, 0x70000CBD3B80, 0x1)		 = 0 Err#-2
 2800/0xe4ec:  workq_kernreturn(0x100, 0x70000CC56B80, 0x1)		 = 0 Err#-2
  263/0xe157:  workq_kernreturn(0x100, 0x700003378B80, 0x1)		 = 0 Err#-2
 2800/0xe4e9:  read(0x5, "\002\0", 0x23FE0)		 = 2152 0

The last line is where the mds process crashes with SIGSEGV for me, repeatedly.

The SIGSEGV prevented Spotlight from working at all, while it is happily reindexing now I noticed the SIGKILLs. This could just be a way how mds communicates with its workers and thus not necessarily be a bug, if everything else works.

Hi

What does this mean ?

How precise to do this ? is it another way of disabling spotlight because that i already did.

I had to otherwise it kept doing this error over and over.

I'm actually surprised (and disappointed) in how long this has gone on with no fix....

I added documents and pictures then my log warnings went away. thank you for your advice.