"mds" process run time schedule

[James Bucanek]

R.L. Grigg <mailto:newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote 
(Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:00 PM -0700):

>Is there some way to schedule when process "mds" runs? This is 
>the spotlight indexing process I think. It always runs at the 
>wrong time and slows the machines to a crawl as it go wild on 
>the disk even if I kill -9 it just comes right back. Where is 
>this thing controlled?

mds runs all of the time. It's triggered by the (undocumented) 
file system events service in 10.4. Whenever a file or folder 
changes, a notification is sent to mds and it immediately begins 
reindexing the modified documents.

I know of no way of interrupting or deferring this process 
unless there are some hidden configuration parameters somewhere 
or you simply disable Spotlight indexing.



-- 
James Bucanek