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Hi, I'm on a Macbook Pro with osx lion.
After installing the newest Espionage, my laptop's fans blows really fast and the temperature is very high. I checked whats using the processors through iStat & Activity monitor; it turns out that mds & mdworker are the processes that are hogging the cpu, and the average laptop temp now is 89 degrees celcius. I haven't had this problem before installing Espionage. How do I fix this?

Thanks.

Hi Zeradig,

mds and mdworker aren't related to Espionage, it's a part of the Spotlight feature on OS X. This is normal if Spotlight is indexing your drive or any sparse bundle files such as the encrypted folders.

If you click on Spotlight on top right, do you see Spotlight say that it is indexing anything?

Indexing takes a lot of power and usually it can take a while for it to finish. You should wait it out until it is finished. After that, it'll return to normal and it will not do that again for the same folder or drives.

Please let me know how it turns out.

Hi Mike, I was encrypting alot of folders, it took Spotlight several hours to index the files, making my really laptop really hot . After Spotlight was done, everything is normal now.

Thanks for your reply

Glad to hear that it worked out in the end and you're welcome.

Glad to hear that.

Why cool a CPU to an even lower temperature if i am not overclocking? Many cool their CPUs to a very low temperature, most of them are overclocker. But I don't quite understand that if my CPU is already well under the max temperature, and I am not overclocking, why should I spend more money to lower the temperature? As long as the temperature is well below the max temp, no overclock means the CPU would basically perform the same at say 30,10, or -XX degree celcius right?
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