spotlightknowledged high resource usages lead to fast battery drain and overheating

Hey @Rohit_070_

I wanted to follow up with what worked for me in case it helps anyone else dealing with this issue.

I created a full Time Machine backup, then made a macOS Tahoe bootable USB using Apple’s guide Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support (CA). I booted from the USB, wiped the SSD using Disk Utility, and restored from the Time Machine backup.

Since doing that, everything’s been running smoothly. I've been using the MacBook all day without any overheating or high resource usage, before the reset, spotlightknowledged was eating up 27GB of RAM and the machine was too hot to touch

Not sure if this is related, but I was on the macOS Public Beta over the summer. I switched to the Release Candidate, then eventually updated to the stable 26.0.1 build, maybe that transition caused something to break.

Hope this helps!

Keep if you can, your computer plugged in for a few days so you don't get the drain non the battery while Spotlight indexes your computer

Hey, I'm also facing this issue on my MacBook Air 13" M1 running macOS Tahoe.

I've tried force-killing the process too, but like you mentioned, it just respawns and eventually starts eating up a ton of memory, in my case, around 27 GB of RAM. I’ve also let it run uninterrupted to see if it finishes indexing, but no luck, it just keeps consuming resources indefinitely.

Super frustrating. Still looking for a proper fix.

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