Why does MDS run wild in Mac OS X 10.6?

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Why does MDS run wild in Mac OS X 10.6?
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Just wanted to note that Spotlight/MDS may not be the issue at all. Errors with Time Machine (particularly where Time Machine takes a long time to “index”) can create a situation where Spotlight tries to continually index the same files.

by duffbeer703 from http://superuser.com/questions/414530