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10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard
Authored by: dkulp on Jul 30, '05 01:21:00PM
Turning off Spotlight may make a difference, because Spotlight's indexing works every time a file is saved, and churns through things in the background, but turning off Dashboard is unnecessary tech voodoo and simply woolly thinking.
I did some rudimentary tests to check on the effect of Spotlight. I wrote some scripts that created thousands of files and deleted them, too. Spotlight appears to be well designed to wait until I/O activity drops below some threshold before updating its indices. You can see Spotlight start working only after the I/O activity finishes. Thus, in my experiments, Spotlight thankfully had no effect on appreciable I/O performance.

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