You can also look in Activity Monitor for the “ mds” or “ mdworker” processes, both of which are related to Spotlight. If you pull down the menu to see an indexing status bar, you know it’s running. How to Know: It’s easy to check if Spotlight is what’s causing the slowdowns though, just click on the Spotlight menu in the upper right corner. Typically Macs with SSD’s won’t feel the slowdown quite so much, but for Mac models still using spinning hard disk drives, it can feel very slow. This is typically worse after reboots between major file system changes when the index is rebuilt, a major system update, or when another hard drive full of stuff is connected to the Mac. Spotlight is the search engine built into OS X, and anytime it indexes drive data it can slow down a Mac.
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