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So I upgraded this afternoon to Lion on my 13" macbook air from the App Store; first of all the reboot crashed, then a hard off and back on sorted that out.
Now hiutil (and sometimes mdworker) are trashing the CPU constantly at 90-100% (and making the fan go crazy with it)
Anyone have any idea what these threads are?
My MBA is now unusable because of these!!
Cheers, Simmo
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
Lion is indexing your HD..that will cause the machine to run hot and fans to blow for a while (20-30) depending on the amount of stuff to index
Lion is indexing your HD..that will cause the machine to run hot and fans to blow for a while (20-30) depending on the amount of stuff to index
mdworker is the Spotlight indexer. Spotlight is a bit wonky in Lion (as it was in SL 10.6.0)…be patient; it might not be fixed until 10.7.2 or so. If you don't use Spotlight, consider turning it off in SysPrefs. It'll cut that process.
hiutil seems to be a low-level process for Help pages. It's probably indexing those (to get the snappy search results from the Help menu).
Thanks to both of you guys (apologies I tried to select both of you as correct answer but it only let me select one)
I'll leave the air for a few mins so it can index 🙂
Cheers again
what are hiutil and mdworker? - they're maxing out the CPU!!
