LAServer : What is it? |
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| by Oscar Sodani | |
| October 23, 2006 | |
 Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. When running top or another system activity monitor on your Mac with OS X, you may notice a process called LAServer which is taking up a lot of resources. What is it? LAServer is a crucial process for Spotlight, the OS X file indexing engine. It is short for "Language Analysis Server", and whenever you create or copy new files to your Mac, this process kicks off. It analyzes the files so that Spotlight can find them when you search. When you see LAServer, you are also likely to see mdimport running as well. Have a question? Need help? Get free, friendly person-to-person help with your computer questions or spyware questions in our help forums! |
