https://ericlim.dev/tags/spotlight/ Recent content in Spotlight on /dev/eric Hugo en-GB Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:27:00 +1200 https://ericlim.dev/posts/20260814t102741--spotlights-film-festival-nearly-fried-my-mac/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:27:00 +1200 https://ericlim.dev/posts/20260814t102741--spotlights-film-festival-nearly-fried-my-mac/ <p>My Mac had been dragging for a day or so. First suspect was <a href="https://github.com/abiosoft/colima">Colima</a>, since it’s usually the thing quietly hogging my CPU. This time it wasn’t.</p> <h2 id="the-setup">The Setup</h2> <p>Colima checked out clean, 2 CPUs, 2GiB RAM, VM process sitting under 1% CPU. So I ran <code>ps aux</code> and found the real offender straight away.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span class="line"><span class="cl">USER PID %CPU %MEM COMMAND </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">eric 86198 129.7 8.9 mediaanalysisd </span></span></code></pre></div><p><code>mediaanalysisd</code> is the built-in macOS daemon that handles face recognition, scene detection, and search indexing for Photos. It had been sitting at 130% CPU and 3GB of RAM since 5:07pm the day before.</p>