I've noticed lately that I can hear my hard drive constantly crunching away at data. In the Activity Monitor it's always "mdworker" running between 50-65 percent CPU usage. I leave it alone, often overnight, thinking that it's just spotlight running its usual cataloging, but every time I sit back down to work — its still crunching away and eating up CPU.
** Could cloud services like Adobe CC, Dropbox, etc. being causing this?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), iOS 10.2.1
If this has persisted beyond the normal reindexing activity, and restarting your Mac doesn't fix it, you can select the problematic mdworker job in Activity Monitor then use
Activity Monitor > View > Inspect Process > Open Files and Ports
to see a list of the files that process has open. Most of these will be libaries and translators but the document that is causing mdworker to sit with its wheels spinning should also be in the list. Corrupt documents particularly ones associated with obsolete applications are probably to blame.
C.
If this has persisted beyond the normal reindexing activity, and restarting your Mac doesn't fix it, you can select the problematic mdworker job in Activity Monitor then use
Activity Monitor > View > Inspect Process > Open Files and Ports
to see a list of the files that process has open. Most of these will be libaries and translators but the document that is causing mdworker to sit with its wheels spinning should also be in the list. Corrupt documents particularly ones associated with obsolete applications are probably to blame.
C.
mdworker Hogging CPU
