<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So I've got a 1.67 ghz pb with 1 gig of ram and it was running very very slowly so I recently</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">added SPOTLIGHT=-NO- to /etc/hostconfig rebooted and it seems to be running a lot faster now.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anybody turned off spotlight had this experience?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One problem is search in Mail.app isn't enabled anymore but I maybe able to live without that.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ideally I'd like be able to update my indexes nightly and turn off real time updating if this is the culprit for the slowness I was seeing.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">I'm a brand new convert to Mac, having just gotten a TiG4 1GHz w/ 512MB. I have to admit that spotlight turned on and everything that it is still a lot faster than the PC I was working on previously. I never really noticed any 'slowness', aside from running Photoshop/Illustrator which seems to be pretty pokey on so little ram. The only thing I've really wound up doing is getting rid of all the Dashboard widgets. I did not particularly appreciate each individual widget eating up something like 10MB of memory. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Given the amount I actually use spotlight though, I might bother trying this.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">-Josh</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>