At 2:26 PM -0400 5/23/2009, Al Poulin wrote:
>aluminum iMac running Leopard 10.5.7
>
>woke it and noticed the hard drive was running for more
>than a few seconds.  Unusual, while just getting into Safari and 
>Mail.  Thinking that Spotlight was indexing unexpectedly, I launched 
>Activity Monitor and found only one "md" item at "0.1" under CPU

So Spotlight was busy.

>I did not catch the "md" item.  With the screen showing Active 
>Processes, the first two screen shots show Process ID 465, Name find,
>User nobody at the top.

Mr. Nobody is a being of no consequence.  The find was fetching info 
for the indexer.


It's normal for Spotlight to kick a big when waking.

- Dan.
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