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Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:04:42 +0000

Thank-you. I am an uptight #@!%$ when it comes to temps on my 3 yr old MBP… I had never encountered this before, the runaway (seems) process indexing pdfs. I had just unrared 25megs (megs, man, not gigs) and the bloody fans went ape, temp hit 165 and I was hesitant to reboot thinking that with no fans running on the reboot (incorrect) the machine would melt. I will disseminate this info to my MBP friends. Hope devs at Apple TAKE NOTE and mend this.

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Ed

Ed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:54:06 +0000

Thanks a bunch! I just came home from some errands and noticed my processor and temperature going hog-wild. Going to the Spotlight System Preference panel and deselecting PDFs took care of this instantly.

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Alex

Alex — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:43:20 +0000

Thanks ! Saved my day (and my battery).

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Zubin

Zubin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:36:21 +0000

Thanks, I had this problem too. I’ve disabled Spotlight completely as I don’t use it (Quicksilver is much better). Poor folks who don’t venture into Terminal to find out what to Google for!

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Marsellus Wallace

Marsellus Wallace — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:57:21 +0000

THANK YOU

same problem and it is now solved

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Martijn Bleeker

Martijn Bleeker — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:18:40 +0000

Hi Niels,
I wondered if the problem was still there with snow leopard too.
I tried copying the heap of PDFs that caused the problem today, and it looks like they are all indexed (a couple of hours later, I got interrupted, so I’m not sure if it caused an annoying peak in processor usage)

So it looks like this problem has been fixed in Snow Leopard, I tried searching for content in these PDFs and spotlight found them, so they are definitely indexed.

Comment on [BarcampLondon3] Obscure Mac-apps by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:01 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Niels Bom

Niels Bom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:49:24 +0000

Hello Martijn, thanks for your article,

I’m wondering when Apple is going to fix this. Surely they can change it so the settings for Spotlight are more configurable, like only index when my Macbook is on a power outlet or start it manually. Or if it finds a big heap warn you.

Did anyone with Snow Leopard experience this problem already?

Spotlight can be really useful but it should work properly first.

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by helmysty

helmysty — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:05:46 +0000

Thank you! you saved my lives…! i just got this problem yesterday after downloading gigs of e-books mostly pdf files. my exhaust fan keep noizingg,,then crasshes.. I was trying to figure out a long day, my case is so terrible since every restart my osx tiger frezzez in as little as 10 sec…
I almost cry cause many downloaded files havent complete yet if I just reinstall osx.. then at last come idea to cheating by opening activity monitor in 10 sec. , (so annoying cause i must play ‘catch and restart’,) after trying many restarting I could make activity monitor on the dock, then make it open at login, then figure out my problems was caused by ATSserver, then force quit that process and at last found this very helpful information,
so I move all .pdf to spotlight privacy folder as you sugessted,. and I also managed to keep activity monitor always open at login in order to prevent osx from such problems.. thank you very much!!

Comment on The runaway ATSServer process by Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:31:13 +0000

I had this process running crazy when I tried to open a font in Font Book – Times Extra Bold. It took about 10 minutes for the install font window to show up, but before it did all I got was the spinning beachball. I checked the activity monitor, and this process was using most of my CPU while Font Book was beachballing. Macs and fonts are very unreliable. As a graphic designer of 5 years on both mac and pc platforms, I have had nothing but trouble with mac fonts and fontbook. I have never had a reputable TTF font not install on my PC.