Hi Alan,
On 09/10/2012, at 12:51 PM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Oddity No 1: Console log messages show a lot of mdworker, lsboxd and
>> sandbox events every few minutes while Mac is sleeping OR awake (but quiet).
>> ("mdworker unable to talk to lsboxd" is typical.) Forums suggest this
>> may be normal for OS X 10.8 and is to do with Spotlight. Doesn't sound
>> quite right to me, but then …
>
> That is correct. mdworker is part of Spotlight, which is basically a search
> engine for your Mac (think Google but locally, for your own files).
> "mdworker is short for ‘metadata server worker’. mdworker is basically the
> core technology behind Mac OS X’s awesome search engine Spotlight, it spiders
> meta data from your Mac and its files and creates a readable index so that
> you can find things practically instantaneously via Spotlight
> (command-spacebar)."
>
> lsboxd is short for 'launch services sandbox daemon'
>
> A. Thanks for detailing this. Never noticed such activity with Snow
> Leopard, but it was morbid curiosity to follow up while trying to find
> Console log patterns affecting 'Wake on Demand'.
Sandboxing was not implemented in Snow Leopard.
> Just guessing - would Spotlight have such a lot of activity because it is
> searching 4 permanently attached Firewire hard drives as well as the internal
> HD?
When you connect any external drive to your Mac Spotlight will immediately
start indexing it.
This process could take some time depending on how many drives you have
attached, and how many files are on those drives.
Then Spotlight will re-index any changes to your files on your Mac and on any
connected external drives.
You can exclude any drive from Spotlight.
Go to System Preferences / Spotlight and click the 'Privacy' tab.
You can add any drive that is currently connected to you Mac in there and
Spotlight will never again attempt indexing them.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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