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I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something. And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% consta

I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something. And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% constantly. Next thing, I reboot into a laggy system. macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... it's basically an abusive relationship at this point.

jrib 6y ago
yeah, I had spotlight thrashing my disk too. Odd.
- rootsudo 6y ago
  How interesting...Apple, couldn't, be doing a pied piper, right? /s obviously.
SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Right there with ya.
27182818284 6y ago
Same. Panic attack. Thought the SSD was dying. I ran Disk Utility diagnostics and started coming up with plans to reformat and restore as a last resort. Apple folks in this thread, this was terrible
- deleted 6y ago
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- webvictim 6y ago
  I genuinely thought the same thing. I opened my MBP and it was sluggish, felt like it was dead. Browser wouldn't load, Zoom wouldn't load, I rebooted and the same problems persisted. I honestly thought the hardware was giving out. I almost cannot believe the actual cause. Absolutely awful experience.
- tudelo 6y ago
  My condolences friend. Next time, be more lazy :)
- playcache 6y ago
  Incredible I had the exact same thing. 2019 MB pro I bought for music production and ableton started to lag incredibly badly and the whole desktop was unresponsive. I started to search my email to see what warranty I had.
auslegung 6y ago
> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Idk, the several Linux distros I’ve used recently, and Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”
- GordonS 6y ago
  Can you really think of a single thing worse than this?
  - jimmydorry 6y ago
    Computer failing to turn on as a buggy, mandatory update has replaced broken or replaced a driver with a non-functional one.
    - GordonS 6y ago
      Fair enough, but that's not a typical experience on either Windows or Linux in this decade - if that's happened to you, then I think you've just been incredibly unlucky.
      - HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
        It happens with forced win10 updates.
        ratsmack 6y ago
        Albeit rarely, and with the diversity of commodity hardware out there, I would say that Microsoft has done pretty well with updates. (P.S. I despise Windows from a technical standpoint though)
        HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
        It shouldn't be their business.
        6y ago
redisman 6y ago
> macOS is my favorite OS, but Ain't that the truth with every OS. I use Windows for gaming, PopOS for work on my desktop and MacOS for work on my laptop. The amount of weird issues is about constant.
- barumi 6y ago
  > The amount of weird issues is about constant. But linux is free both as in free beer and in free speech, windows required you to pay the Microsoft tax to use, and lastly macOS required you to pay a premium on hardware.
  - redisman 6y ago
    True. Linux is the best value and the best developer experience IMHO - unless you need commercial software that is Win/Mac only. Even then you can virtualize which is safer too. I can also easily get a Darcula theme OS-wide for Gnome so..
  - mekster 6y ago
    That freedom of Linux comes at a cost that people aren't paid to take care of the level of details other OS have. Paying $100 for Windows seems like a better solution if you just want a working OS without a hassle. And what premium do Mac hardwares have? It seems I paid what they deserved as I can't find anything better in the market. Even moreso now that M1 is out, it seems all Windows machines have premium.
    - bbojan 6y ago
      If Windows is working for you "without a hassle", you must be using some version that us mortals can only dream of.
      - mekster 6y ago
        What hassle do you have these days? Yeah, I don't use peripherals as it's only a gaming machine (I don't see other reason to use Windows) but it's working as intended for years.
nomel 6y ago
I never have problems with the new MacOS or iOS. The trick is to just wait for the X.1 update.
- pavon 6y ago
  This is happening to Macs running Catalina and Mojave, not just those that upgraded to BigSur.
  - JKCalhoun 6y ago
    High Sierra it is then. ;-)
zapataband 6y ago
My music software became completely useless on catalina, and I was also running into issues with spotlight so I disabled it. I downgraded(painfully) to Mojave and my system is so much speedier. wish I could completely switch to linux.
- abruzzi 6y ago
  yeah, but in the end, choice of OS is secondary to choice of application. I'm staying on Mojave for the foreseeable future, but I'll stay with Mac because Logic Pro is not available on any other platform. Sometimes applications are fungible, or you're lucky and your critical application is available on multiple platforms, but sometimes there are only certain applications that can do what you want. I run a MacOS System 7 for software to edit my Yamaha VL-1. I run MacOS 9.2.8 due to hardware drivers for a Korg OasysPCI. I run MacOS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard because is is the last OS that runs rosetta and keeps numerous PowerPC apps that never made the jump to Intel. I'll keep Mojave running when eventually I have to jump to Arm because I'm sure a lot of the software I run won't make the jump to Arm. I'd LOVE to drop any of those systems, but each exists because there are applications that do not have replacement on modern OS'es.
  - iainctduncan 6y ago
    And that, my friend, is exactly why they bought Logic. Don't know if you were in the music game back then, but they way it played out was: - Logic had the pole position for non-pro-tools music at the time, and sold (IIRC) for about $600 - Apple bought Logic and stated publicly "we will not discontinue it on windows" - I think a year later, might have been two, they cancelled it on windows - Some time later, they dropped the price, and also put out garage band, using Logic's engine. - Logic's product roadmap (from what I've heard) became more general user friendly (can't attest to this personally though) Basically, anything Apple owns becomes part of the plan to get you on a mac and iEverything, secondary to whatever it's originally purpose is. I won't touch any music software now that doesn't run on at least 2 operating systems. Fortunately most of them now realize the importance of this. I'd recommend looking at other options like Reaper, Cubase, or Digital Performer, all of which have been improving steadily and can on windows or OSX. Personally I'm sticking on High Sierra, and doubt my next machine will be a mac. Man I'm going to miss Bash everywhere though. Sigh
asdff 6y ago
This happened to me too! What the hell.
knolan 6y ago
If I do any simple math calculation in Spotlight it pegs all cores at 100%. Its easily reproducible and really annoying because I've used spotlight as a calculator for years.
- knolan 6y ago
  I finally think I found a fix for this, toggle off and back on the Calculator service in System Prefs > Spotlight.
echelon 6y ago
Just wait until you can only run signed binaries. As developers and engineers, we ought to be jumping off this platform like a sinking ship. It's clear that they want to lock it down like the iPhone. Why else would they be measuring which apps are in use if they didn't want to control it? If your argument is "compatibility research", you're missing the other warning signs.

jrib 6y ago

yeah, I had spotlight thrashing my disk too. Odd.

rootsudo 6y ago
How interesting...Apple, couldn't, be doing a pied piper, right? /s obviously.

SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago

> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Right there with ya.

27182818284 6y ago

Same. Panic attack. Thought the SSD was dying. I ran Disk Utility diagnostics and started coming up with plans to reformat and restore as a last resort. Apple folks in this thread, this was terrible

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webvictim 6y ago
I genuinely thought the same thing. I opened my MBP and it was sluggish, felt like it was dead. Browser wouldn't load, Zoom wouldn't load, I rebooted and the same problems persisted. I honestly thought the hardware was giving out. I almost cannot believe the actual cause. Absolutely awful experience.
tudelo 6y ago
My condolences friend. Next time, be more lazy :)
playcache 6y ago
Incredible I had the exact same thing. 2019 MB pro I bought for music production and ableton started to lag incredibly badly and the whole desktop was unresponsive. I started to search my email to see what warranty I had.

auslegung 6y ago

> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Idk, the several Linux distros I’ve used recently, and Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”

GordonS 6y ago
Can you really think of a single thing worse than this?
- jimmydorry 6y ago
  Computer failing to turn on as a buggy, mandatory update has replaced broken or replaced a driver with a non-functional one.
  - GordonS 6y ago
    Fair enough, but that's not a typical experience on either Windows or Linux in this decade - if that's happened to you, then I think you've just been incredibly unlucky.
    - HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
      It happens with forced win10 updates.
      - ratsmack 6y ago
        Albeit rarely, and with the diversity of commodity hardware out there, I would say that Microsoft has done pretty well with updates. (P.S. I despise Windows from a technical standpoint though)
        HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
        It shouldn't be their business.
        6y ago

redisman 6y ago

> macOS is my favorite OS, but Ain't that the truth with every OS. I use Windows for gaming, PopOS for work on my desktop and MacOS for work on my laptop. The amount of weird issues is about constant.

barumi 6y ago
> The amount of weird issues is about constant. But linux is free both as in free beer and in free speech, windows required you to pay the Microsoft tax to use, and lastly macOS required you to pay a premium on hardware.
- redisman 6y ago
  True. Linux is the best value and the best developer experience IMHO - unless you need commercial software that is Win/Mac only. Even then you can virtualize which is safer too. I can also easily get a Darcula theme OS-wide for Gnome so..
- mekster 6y ago
  That freedom of Linux comes at a cost that people aren't paid to take care of the level of details other OS have. Paying $100 for Windows seems like a better solution if you just want a working OS without a hassle. And what premium do Mac hardwares have? It seems I paid what they deserved as I can't find anything better in the market. Even moreso now that M1 is out, it seems all Windows machines have premium.
  - bbojan 6y ago
    If Windows is working for you "without a hassle", you must be using some version that us mortals can only dream of.
    - mekster 6y ago
      What hassle do you have these days? Yeah, I don't use peripherals as it's only a gaming machine (I don't see other reason to use Windows) but it's working as intended for years.

nomel 6y ago

I never have problems with the new MacOS or iOS. The trick is to just wait for the X.1 update.

pavon 6y ago
This is happening to Macs running Catalina and Mojave, not just those that upgraded to BigSur.
- JKCalhoun 6y ago
  High Sierra it is then. ;-)

zapataband 6y ago

My music software became completely useless on catalina, and I was also running into issues with spotlight so I disabled it. I downgraded(painfully) to Mojave and my system is so much speedier. wish I could completely switch to linux.

abruzzi 6y ago
yeah, but in the end, choice of OS is secondary to choice of application. I'm staying on Mojave for the foreseeable future, but I'll stay with Mac because Logic Pro is not available on any other platform. Sometimes applications are fungible, or you're lucky and your critical application is available on multiple platforms, but sometimes there are only certain applications that can do what you want. I run a MacOS System 7 for software to edit my Yamaha VL-1. I run MacOS 9.2.8 due to hardware drivers for a Korg OasysPCI. I run MacOS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard because is is the last OS that runs rosetta and keeps numerous PowerPC apps that never made the jump to Intel. I'll keep Mojave running when eventually I have to jump to Arm because I'm sure a lot of the software I run won't make the jump to Arm. I'd LOVE to drop any of those systems, but each exists because there are applications that do not have replacement on modern OS'es.
- iainctduncan 6y ago
  And that, my friend, is exactly why they bought Logic. Don't know if you were in the music game back then, but they way it played out was: - Logic had the pole position for non-pro-tools music at the time, and sold (IIRC) for about $600 - Apple bought Logic and stated publicly "we will not discontinue it on windows" - I think a year later, might have been two, they cancelled it on windows - Some time later, they dropped the price, and also put out garage band, using Logic's engine. - Logic's product roadmap (from what I've heard) became more general user friendly (can't attest to this personally though) Basically, anything Apple owns becomes part of the plan to get you on a mac and iEverything, secondary to whatever it's originally purpose is. I won't touch any music software now that doesn't run on at least 2 operating systems. Fortunately most of them now realize the importance of this. I'd recommend looking at other options like Reaper, Cubase, or Digital Performer, all of which have been improving steadily and can on windows or OSX. Personally I'm sticking on High Sierra, and doubt my next machine will be a mac. Man I'm going to miss Bash everywhere though. Sigh

asdff 6y ago

This happened to me too! What the hell.

knolan 6y ago

If I do any simple math calculation in Spotlight it pegs all cores at 100%. Its easily reproducible and really annoying because I've used spotlight as a calculator for years.

knolan 6y ago
I finally think I found a fix for this, toggle off and back on the Calculator service in System Prefs > Spotlight.

echelon 6y ago

Just wait until you can only run signed binaries. As developers and engineers, we ought to be jumping off this platform like a sinking ship. It's clear that they want to lock it down like the iPhone. Why else would they be measuring which apps are in use if they didn't want to control it? If your argument is "compatibility research", you're missing the other warning signs.