<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hi list</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>related to the question of turning Spotlight off:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I like Spotlight, and I'm happy for the mds and mdimport do do some tasks</DIV><DIV>once in a while. I can see when either of them take up to 20-30% CPU at times.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, I am a musician and use my computer for performances, often</DIV><DIV>CPU intensive. I'd rather not have some indexing happening in the middle</DIV><DIV>of a set. I would be interested in how one could turn Spotlight off and </DIV><DIV>start it up again after a performance.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is it enough to kill the mds and mdimport in the Terminal, or would that </DIV><DIV>affect something else and make the system unstable?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>th</DIV></BODY></HTML>