The Baloo indexer shipped with Plasma does its job in two passes: first the file names are indexed (fast) then metadata and content are extracted (slow). This second pass can be problematic and it's highly user-dependent, because the various metadata extractors have varying degrees of efficiency. When there is a problem with metadata extraction, it's often the cause of the high CPU usage and disk I/O reported. One proposal we had in IRC was to change the behavior of the indexer (which is enabled by default): switch it to "basic indexing" which only indexes the names and not the metadata, as a solution for the above problem. There's a (config-only) option that does the job. Due to a bug it was not possible to change that configuration and it was never saved to disk. We also plan to add a checkbox to toggle the option on and off in the configuration dialog (System Settings > Search) for those who use metadata search. However it's a behavioral change: anyone who uses the default configuration will be affected by this. Hence this post to gather feedback. Should we do this, or not? NOTE: This is about the *default*. If you have disabled Baloo nothing will happen. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team GPG key ID: A29D259B