I've added my backup drives here to avoid getting duplicate search results. In System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy it's possible to add drives or folders you don't want indexed. Its usually not the CPU load that slows things down but rather all the disc access being done that will slow down app start up, file loads & saves and anything else that needs disc access. If you're indexing the disk for the first time (or re-indexing it) then you might see many more mdworkers, each using a few percent of CPU. Normally you will see one or two of these processes, using 0.0% CPU. In Activity Monitor look for "mdworker" to see if Spotlight is doing any indexing. The point of the index is that it's much faster to search the index rather than scanning the entire disk.Īfter the initial indexing Spotlight will only index new or edited files, so any future CPU impact should be minimal. Spotlight will be fairly active the first time it's turned on as it needs to go through all the files to create the search index. I highly recommend NOT disabling Spotlight, as this is what lets searches on files take seconds rather than minutes.
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Basically everyone in this community knows better than I how to gain that control.I welcome any advice, tips, questions. I want to know other ways that I can gain control over this machine I rely on to make a living. Switched to Notion app instead of using google docs, this seems to have helped a little.I've bought more cloud space and am in process (albeit a VERY slow process) of uploading all photos/documents to iCloud in effort to have my actual hard drive contain as little data as possible.Prevented any applications from running on startup.I've gotten rid of Grammarly or any Chrome extensions that are constantly scanning for something to do.I've deleted any new apps that seemed like my CPU couldn't handle (sorry, Crusader Kings III), or old apps I simply don't use.I don't fully understand what this means, but my understanding was it was running through all new files and unnecessarily organizing them each time I powered on. I ran a command in Terminal to stop Spotlight from indexing files.This seems to have happened suddenly, as until a month ago, I rarely even heard the computer's fan unless I was installing a large update.Īlso, the computer just started making that pop sound internally from time to time, I know that isn't breaking news for anyone as I've seen about 1,000 articles on the topic. I write for a living, so I'm not using any advanced programs, real basic word processors, I assure you.
I'm new at anything computer related, at 33 I want to start learning and I'm looking for help.Ģ017, 13", 2.5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro,Įvery time I'm doing work on google docs, running a zoom call, or simply have a lot of tabs open in Chrome, the computer fan goes wild and there seems to be trouble handling it all. Looking to learn how to limit cpu usage, in general. Just began caring about understanding my MacOS after I've had problems recently.
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