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10.4: Improve Spotlight's search speed
Authored by: cynikal on May 10, '05 11:22:51AM

I would advise against this.. the mds process appears to be responsible for being handed off to from the kernel hooks when a file is written (or opened for indexing)... originally this process has a positive priority value (meaning it takes a back seat to other processes if there's resource contention)... apple must have done this for a reason, probably so you don't notice it when it is indexing new files (new meaning files not already in the index).

As far as i can tell, when i am creating new files (or when i just installed my system), this process was using the most cpu indicating it's merely responsible for indexing non-indexed files. i don't think it has anything to do with the search results, since that is reading from the index and this is not what that process is responsible for.



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10.4: Improve Spotlight's search speed
Authored by: cynikal on May 10, '05 11:25:33AM

or if you insist on trying this, at least don't give it a -20, that's the highest priority available..



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10.4: Improve Spotlight's search speed
Authored by: stephendv on May 10, '05 01:31:34PM

The mds process does appear to be responsible for spotlight searches, just watch the CPU usage on the process when running a search - it really does skyrocket.



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