From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:
> I never understood the need for this for a desktop system. Seems to me it
> takes more time and resources to keep an index up to date than it does to do
> a month worth of "find files" on my systems.

It's simple. When I am looking for a file, especially if I am unable to
narrow the scope within the directory structure, I have a choice of waiting
ten minutes for an exhaustive search, or two seconds for an indexed search.

> There is actually more to my logic on this. I've been playing with computers
> long enough to realize that the faster the cpu's get the more stuff we find
> to keep them busy so that when we need to do something there is still that
> same darn lag there was 10 years ago. What I want is a machine that is 100%
> at my disposal, where I get all the cpu without having to wait for it to
> swap a bunch of processes out of memory or manage a task list to make room
> for my task.

The indexing service is inactive except when files are being created or
modified, and when it is initially building the index.

I like it.

Gregg

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