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

Posted on Oct 16, 2025 8:19 AM

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Oct 16, 2025 5:45 PM in response to Rohit_070_

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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