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10.4: Improve Spotlight's search speed
Authored by: bigbold on May 10, '05 04:27:41PM

I've been using Tiger for just over a week now and mds still usually ends up at 64MB or so each day. If I HUP it, it sits at 5MB for a while, then climbs back up.

There's certainly way more paging on in Tiger than ever before (which is probably why it feels so awfully sluggish). I bought 512MB of memory which made Panther totally fly.. now it seems I'll have to buy a 1GB stick to get Tiger to do the same :-(

I'm a developer and am always untarring and compiling bits and pieces. I wonder if mds is getting tied up keeping up with all the files I'm creating. If so, perhaps I can set exceptions on my temporary and development folders to cure the problem..



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10.4: Improve Spotlight's search speed
Authored by: sjmills on May 10, '05 07:56:39PM

Since Spotlight doesn't even look at all the data files created/modified during a compile/build, it shouldn't being doing much. It will probably only scan the newly built app if that's what you're building.



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