Mds_stores process memory leak with macOS sequoia 15.1.1

Hi, my MacBook Pro M4 has been using an insane amount of ram for the indexing process of spotlight. Rebooting, turning off the pc or even killing the process doesn't seem to work.

The process always starts with few ram, and reaches up to 125GB allocated in a copule minutes. Then the OS kills the process, and immediately restarts from zero, climbing up to 125GB again.


Is there a solution for this? The solutions I have seen for going into the Spotlight privacy settings and excluding my HD gives me an error that doesn't allow me to do it. I turned off all search categories for Spotlight and have tried restarting, etc, but no impact.




MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Feb 21, 2025 6:01 AM

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Mds_stores process memory leak with macOS sequoia 15.1.1

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