Re: access active process in activity monitor - indexing process:mdworker
Re: access active process in activity monitor - indexing process:mdworker
- Subject: Re: access active process in activity monitor - indexing process:mdworker
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:25:48 -0800
On 2008-02-22, at 09:55:53, Angela Yang wrote:
Hi, I need to figure out when the indexing is done, and I thought
the easiest way is to check if the process ‘mdworker.’
mdworker is very low in the system and called by the other MetaData
facilities. You shouldn't be addressing it directly. At least one of
the MetaData facilities is always on even if the user has turned off
indexing for all the currently mounted volumes. So I think it best if
you try to narrow down the scope of your problem.
For instance the most common problem developers have in this area is
finding out that mds has marked a file 'busy' even though they have
just deleted it by the recommended file system call. There is a way
around this particular problem so if that's your problem, it is
solvable.
Philip Aker
echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
If it is active, then the indexing is still going, and when it goes
into sleep (inactive), then indexing is done.
For that, I need to access the list of active processes (not all
processes) and see if ‘mdworker’ is there on the list.
I have used the code below, but it does not work since it looks up
every active/inactive process. I need to get the active ones.
Tell application “System Events”
If exists application process “mdworker” then
I tried with shell scripting with command ‘ps’, but the process
status showing there is very unstable (keeps going into idle and
coming back out to active status)
So I thought the best way is to access the active process list on
the Activity Monitor since it is very stable there, but I am having
difficult time figuring out that by using apple script.
Any help would be very appreciated. I am a beginner to apple
script, so if possible, if you could write some code that does what
I need, I would really appreciate. ( I need to get this thing done
fairly soon, so I am quite desperate)
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