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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1320746" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>It's possible - anything is with kernel issues. The kernel is like the brain of the operating system - many many things depend on it. It controls the hardware and most (if not all) system level software interacts with it. This is why nailing down a kernel issue is hard.</p><p></p><p>The Encore CPU usage isn't surprising. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was the opposite.</p><p></p><p>Wait, you said that there was a flashing dot in the Spotlight menubar icon. The flashing dot means that Spotlight is indexing which is very CPU intensive. The Spotlight process though is called <em>mds</em>. It's possible though that if the files on the external change regularly, Spotlight needs to "keep up" by reindexing it. How often does Spotlight reindex?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1320746, member: 71075"] It's possible - anything is with kernel issues. The kernel is like the brain of the operating system - many many things depend on it. It controls the hardware and most (if not all) system level software interacts with it. This is why nailing down a kernel issue is hard. The Encore CPU usage isn't surprising. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was the opposite. Wait, you said that there was a flashing dot in the Spotlight menubar icon. The flashing dot means that Spotlight is indexing which is very CPU intensive. The Spotlight process though is called [I]mds[/I]. It's possible though that if the files on the external change regularly, Spotlight needs to "keep up" by reindexing it. How often does Spotlight reindex? [/QUOTE]
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