Service exited due to sigkill mdworker. 04000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000 [7371]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds [188] A couple of days ago my MBP (Shown in the profile info) rebooted in the middle of the night. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds. What is going on? People have suggested Spotlight, and apparently if you turn it off, the message stops (most of the time). xpc. In Unix/Linux SIGKILL is used as a last resort when terminating processes, so we could expect a misbehavior here Feb 3, 2023 · Feb 3 11:08:10 --- last message repeated 1 time --- Feb 3 11:08:20 carmel76s-MBP com. Sep 8, 2021 · So mdworker stands for "metadata server worker" it's part of Spotlight. 02000000-0500-0000-0000-000000000000 [1292]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds [104] Note: The bracketed [1292] number changes in each entry. system_profiler. 15 to 11. Do you guys have these issues in your system.