Re: Long Standing Problem...

(Google told me that there was an error, so I'm resending. Sorry if
this is a duplicate)

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> the mds process dies with a variety of ugly errors, access violation, assert
>> errors and
>> a variety of other excuses…
>>
>>
>> Apple support seemed to think that the problem was caused by some corrupt
>> files but
>> gave no hints on how to find the rascals ( the crash dumps generally did not
>> provide
>> this piece of info).
>
> I recall seeing some sort of information about a file activity tracing
> program, that actually traced kernel calls made by a process.
>
> If you can find such a utility, and then ask it to monitor the kernel
> file IO calls (or even just "open") for mdworker, that will probably
> tell you which files it finally dies on.

Alright, the "raw" command line program is "dtrace", but presumably
there's better (nicer) front-ends to that.