spotlightknowledged high resource usages lead to fast battery drain and overheating
I tried a few things:
- Restarted my MacBook.
- Removed the Macintosh HD from indexing and then re-added it for indexing.
- Deleted the index completely and let indexing complete, which took only about 5 minutes.
- For a temporary fix, I forcefully killed the process, but it respawned after a while when I used Spotlight again. So, I keep killing the process whenever it starts consuming too much resources.
A few things I’ve noticed about the problem:
- The process doesn’t suddenly start consuming resources; it takes about a few minutes before the resource usage skyrockets.
- Even if I let the process run for an hour, it still continues to consume resources.
- Killing the process instantly respawns it, but the resource usage remains within the limit for a while.
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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 26.0