Spotlight performance? (was Re: degrading script performance in Mail)
Spotlight performance? (was Re: degrading script performance in Mail)
- Subject: Spotlight performance? (was Re: degrading script performance in Mail)
- From: Jeff Porten <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:36:25 -0400
Patrick's thread brought up something that's been genuinely bugging
me for a long time -- and apologies if I've already posted something
along these lines. Has anyone else noticed Spotlight's tendency to
suddenly move with the speed of light through raspberry jello?
I'm using a 1Ghz PowerBook, drive speed at 7200 rpm. Spotlight
searches routinely take a minute or more -- far faster than the
Panther equivalent, but still long enough that I think twice before
opening up a smart mailbox. What makes this seem like a Mail issue
(although I see similar problems in Finder), is that opening up a
list mailbox can take a few minutes. Granted, some of these
mailboxes are huge -- I succumbed to Tiger hype and now keep my new
messages and archives in the same mailbox. But even so, it seems to
me that an indexed filesystem should be, well, faster.
I'm giving some thought to issuing some global nuke-and-reindex
commands when I have nothing better to do with my PowerBook for 12
hours or so. But I've done this before, and I'm still here -- so if
this acts as a solution, it'll be a temporary one and it means a
reindex should be maintenance behavior. Anyone have insights? I
realize my machine is pretty darned pokey compared to a dual G5, but
I still have trouble thinking of it as underpowered.
Best,
Jeff
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