[Ti] Tiger on an 867

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Ross Winn wrote:

> Does anyone else have experience with this machine and Tiger, and  
> does 10.4.3 make it any better?

It's not the machine, it's Tiger.  Spotlight is rather brain dead on  
system resource usage during initial indexing.  Mac OS X's threading  
peformance sucks and Spotlight tries to overload the system with more  
threads than the kernel can handle.

Tiger has a new preference pane in System Prefs for Spotlight like  
this one:
http://astcomm.net/~chris/temp/Spotlight.png

Uncheck all the boxes as soon as you get logged in to stop  
Spotlight's indexing.  Then check one thing at at a time in the list  
and let Spotlight index it.  That'll keep it under control until it  
gets everything indexed.

There's a reason Spotlight is disabled by default on Tiger Server.
-- 
Chris

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