On IRC today, Chris Nandor was remarking on how spotlight was chewing up vast amounts of CPU time constantly reindexing Eudora mailboxes when they're being downloaded. I was thinking he was wrong, since Eudora's traditionally pinned the CPU when downloading mail for me, and 100% is 100%, right?
Well, turns out Chris was right. The importer does suck down a lot of CPU time, especially on large mailboxes. I dunno about you, but spotlight indexing is pretty useless for me with Eudora, what with everything globbed into big boxes. (Finding that a 10K message mailbox matches my search does not help) Chris just nuked Spotlight, but I like it enough to keep it around, but putting Eudora's mail folder into the forbid list definitely speeds things up. And, if like me you've got a half-gig or so of mail folder, it saves some on spotlight database size too.
Posted by Dan at June 7, 2005 08:59 PM | TrackBack (0)