intermittent spinning beachball

eurotrotter

hey guys
my macbook is really frustratig me lately, realy frustrating!
i get the spnning beacball regularly now everytime i go n teh macbook!
but i have 2gig of ram and the core 2 duo!
i have taken a snapshot of teh acitivity monitor, maybe u guys might recognize something there!
id really really appreciate help on this one.
thanks in advance,
ed

Sad Professor

At a glance it looks like the mds process might be the problem. Is it always using so much cpu? If so it would indicate Spotlight is indexing the drive but it shouldn't be doing this all the time. If it is it means the Spotlight database is corrupt. So you'll have to rebuild it. The easiest way I know to this to go to

System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy

Click on the "+" and add your hard drive to the list. Then select it and click the "-", removing it from the list. Basically this should delete the Spotlight database and force it to start reindexing. This will take a while, during which time your mac will still be sluggish but it should be ok afterwards.

xebec

Have just compared your activity monitor to my own, and your mds is using a similar amount of memory as mine. Have you restarted your computer recently? I find that while it shouldn't be necessary, it can often help speed things up a little

ZENER

Get rid of Google Desktop for a start. There's a thread elsewhere on this forum regarding it. Causes the problems you're describing.

From Google themselves.

And again . . .

ZEN

eurotrotter

thanks fot eh help ads
i tried that there with the spotlight,hope it helps!
how do i stop a process from starting up at at startup?
thanks
ed

ZENER

Try getting rid of Google Desktop too.

To delete something from the system startup routine, try :

System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and select the app you want to remove and click the "-" under the window.

ZEN