I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing a significant CPU drain from Spotlight (specifically corespotlightd) in macOS 11.2.2.
Since updating to macOS 11.2.2 any time that I access spotlight using Command + Space Bar I immediately experience a system wide lag. Viewing this in Activity Monitor I see a %CPU spike of corespotlightd in the realm of 200-400%. that last for anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds.
I have sent this in through Feedback Assistant, but no other reports seem to have been linked to the radar.
I have attempted a few different fixes as well:
Terminal killall corespotlightd resolves the issue momentarily, but does not fix long term
Restarting computer does nothing to solve
Re-indexing spotlight does not solve
I have also disabled more advanced search functions (Bookmarks and History, Contacts, Events and Reminders, Fonts, Mail & Messages, Music, Siri Suggestions, and Movies are all disabled) - This did not fix the issue.
I have also disabled search for external hard drives which also did not solve the issue.
Mac mini, 2018 (2020 release), 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4. External GPU Radeon RX 570 4 GB.
So after significant troubleshooting including:
Reindex via terminal
PRAM/NVRAM reset
SMC reset
Hardware test
Confirming that the issue occurs in safe boot
Reinstall macOS Big Sur via Recovery Mode
Boot into Recovery Mode
Wipe the SSD via Disk Utility
Reinstall macOS Big Sur through Recovery Mode
Confirm the issue doesn't occur on a clean install (it didn't - issue was fixed)
Restore ONLY apps and documents with Migration Assistant