ACTIVITY MONITOR MDS FULL

Props to Tequila Fish for providing the terminal commands. It will force Spotlight to stop indexing and when it restarts, it should go back to normal.Īlternatively, if you don't like to mess around with the command line, I made this Alfred workflow called KillSpot that does it for you.

Main display includes date, weekday, hour, minute, second format choose from 12-hour or 24-hour time mode. Activity tracker features pedometer to count steps and calories burned per day automatically stores last 50 days of steps. Sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/.plistĪnd that should do it. Water-resistant watch features pulse sensors for accurate and continuous heart rate monitoring. Sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/.plist First, copy this into Termainal to stop Spotlight:

ACTIVITY MONITOR MDS FULL

If your 'mds' process has been going at full force for over an hour, then it's probably never going to sort itself out and you're going to have to step in.Īfter much research and trial and error, I came across 2 simple terminal commands that will restart Spotlight and get you back in good shape. Spotlight is a great tool, so you definitely want this, but sometimes it gets stuck and can't do its job right. I don't know what 'mds' stands for, but it is a process of Spotlight that indexes your hard drive. Is your computer running a little sluggishly? Have you opened Activity Monitor on your Mac and seen a process called 'mds' taking up 100% of your CPU power and show no sign of stopping? A quick Google search shows this is a pretty common problem on OS X, and it's one that I ran into myself recently.

You probably don't have to do this too often, so pasting the commands into Terminal will work fine. I should specify that the Alfred extension runs 'sudo' commands, so you must have Terminal open and signed in for this to work.

Activity monitor mds