Hmmm... quite interesting stuff... the fan speed seemed pretty high if I could hear it, I've never heard it that high before. But, as long as nothing serious can happen, I think we're ok, :) thanks all for the advice, it's greatly appreciated!
On 7/4/12, Nicolai Svendsen <chojiro1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Lynne, > > Depending on what application he used to play music (we'll assume iTunes,) > some processes in OS X sometimes run very resource-hungry tasks. One > resource to watch out for in particular is mdworker. What this stands for is > Metadata Server worker and it ensures that your files are Indexed using > Spotlight, and is the core technology behind the search engine. It generates > its index using metadata making it possible to find files instantaneously > using Spotlight. It's very much known to take up a lot of CPU, so this is > probably what happened. It tends to really start working when you, for > instance, plug in an external hard drive. Keep in mind that it tries to > index all of the new files that it discovers, so depending on the new files > found it may take longer than you expect. Also depending on the workload it > will work harder, but the high CPU usage is totally normal. Other processes > may increase your CPU usage, like Voiceover, but if VoiceOver does this > often you need to do some tro > ubleshooting. VoiceOVer is designed to hardly eat up any resources. You can > review the CPU usage of your processes through > /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app or by using Terminal commands. > > A kernel panic is something entirely different and actually causes your Mac > to freeze, and even third party programs can cause this, although kernel > panics should be extremely rare. it is an internal fatal error for which > your operating system cannot recover, and is often related to hardware > problems though some software particularly in the operating system itself > may trigger the behaviour. It's a safety mechanism which aims to prevent > data corruption and the risk of data breaches, and attempts to facilitate a > diagnosis of the error. For those familiar with Windows, this is what most > users even consumers call the "blue screen," or "Bug check." > > Regards, > Nicolai > On Jul 4, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith > <ly...@mac-access.net> wrote: > >> Hello Josh and Sarah >> >> There are occasions where you can run into what I believe is a "Panic" at >> a very low level. These "Panics" or "Kernel Panics" can cause symptoms >> such as the fan speed increasing or hard drive access becoming sluggish. >> >> In a lot of cases, you can help your Mac recover from these "Panics" by >> simply shutting it down and then restarting. I'm lead to believe that some >> or all of these "Panics" are logged and can be sent to Apple as a report. >> Of course, somebody may know better than I; in fact they probably do. But >> having read a lot of stuff on Apple's technical pages I think this is the >> kind of situation you're running into. >> >> Lynne >> >> On 4 Jul 2012, at 02:18, josh gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it anything to seriously worry about? 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