B550 Aorus Pro 100% HDD load -System stands still

[Fooose]

Hi guys,
today I need your help, my system is running and completely set up.
But unfortunately I can not get a massive problem under control.
In irregular intervals the hard disk activity increases in such a way that I can't do anything on the system,
the LED of the hard disk shines permanently for more than 20 seconds,
then the system works for a while until the error occurs again.
Unfortunately I can neither localize nor reproduce the error.
Do I need special BIOS settings that I have not yet set?

I am grateful for any help!

 

[RyzeCooker]

Does Console or tail -f /var/log/system.log throw up anything during/right after such events?

 

[Fooose]

I suspect it is here, but I don't know the solution. The hard disk performance is completely limited, and under "Big Sure" it is even more extreme.

 

[Shaneee]

This seems to be an issue on actual Mac too. It looks like Spotlight is indexing your drives for search. For info on this see here, http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
You can try disabling it as shown on that site to see if the problem goes away and then try rebuilding the index.

 

[Aluveitie]

I had Spotlight issues too, root path was there multiple times and Spotlight did not work correctly. Even disabling/enabling and manually removing/re-adding on the command line did not help but made it worse. After a clean install with DP6 Spotlight was working properly again.

 

[RyzeCooker]

My system vomits up the Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[150] messages too (started with 10.15.5 if I recall - made a post about it a while ago) but it is never so intense that it grinds my system to a halt. People are complaining about it on Apple Community as well, but none of the supplementals for Catalina addressed this issue. Pretty disappointing to hear it's on Big Sur too.

 

[Potato007]

here's how to rebuild Spotlight database - paste into Terminal:

sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

if the above command is not working, you have to grant FullDisk Access to Terminal

continue with these:

sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /

your drive should be reindexed within 15-20 min depending the size and type (HD/SSD)