What is hogging my machine?

[Mac1337]

I noticed the fan on my MB was on so I restarted. The fan is still on and there is just one app(Safari) running. Some mysterious process called mdworker is eating up the CPU. Killed it several times but keeps coming back. VM size is an incredible 46 GB when noting is running.

[mattkime]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mdworker

[guitarist]

Issue is related to Spotlight. A user here suggests "mdworker is a tool that indexes what, where, and what is in files."

The thread started here describes a similar problem and complaint that you have

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.p...opic=24789

Instructions for Disabling (and then reenabling) Spotlight, should you want to take that step

http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/22/how-to-co...spotlight/

[Mac1337]

Thanks. Spot on. It stopped after a while.