[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 12, Issue 32

[John Baltutis]

On 08/16/05, Ted Burton <egburton at cableone.net> wrote:
>
> A root application called simply mds is eating up CPU percentages all
> day. Anyone know what it does?

AFAIK, mds is the metadata schema daemon which generates the data for
Spotlight. See
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/MDSchemaRef/index.html>
and
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MetadataIntro/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MetadataIntro/Concepts/SpotlightAttrs.html>
for details. It and mdimport are what Spotlight use to collect and display
metadata.