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Old March 16th 19, 05:18 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default is "Everything" doing some mining?

In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:43:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:51:20 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

I used to open "Everything" and then leave it running. It takes a few
seconds to open, then settles down; I can use it, and it finds things
amazingly fast. It is an excellent utility!



Ditto to all of the above. I'll just add that I also use Agent Ransack
to find files by content when I need to.

I have it, but rarely use it. But yes, it's the go-to for content search

However, of late: some minutes after I've opened it and all has settled
down, I hear my fan spin up (it is normally idling), and I start Task
Manager to see what's using CPU - and I see Everything.exe is using 25%
CPU (four apparent cores - I think it's an i3). This applies though I
haven't typed anything new into the search box.



Two points:

It's probably indexing new files.


Weird. In the two hours since my previous post, it hasn't gone berserk
at all - certainly the fan hasn't spun up beyond idle, and when I look
at it in Task Manager, it's still at 00.

25% isn't a big deal if nothing less is using much. If you're not



Ugh! That should be "nothing else" not "nothing less ."

(I didn't notice it!)

having a performance problem, I wouldn't worry about it; it will
probably go down again shortly.

Well, I wouldn't think so either, but it _does_ bring the fan up from
idle, which is distracting noise-wise - and, if Toshiba's designers
think it needs that to happen, I presume it's heating up the processor
at least somewhat. I don't notice any performance hit (but then most of
the time I'm not doing processor-intensive things anyway). I've tried
leaving it for several minutes, and it _doesn't_ go back down once it's
started doing it. What do you mean by "indexing new files"? I don't
_think_ I've usually added many since last time it happened; even if
that includes all the ones the OS is adding/deleting all the time, I
can't see it would be _that_ much work. Especially as, when I start
Everything from cold after a restart, it _does_ take a few tens of
seconds before filling the search window, so I assume it's doing some
indexing then - but, only for a few tens of seconds, and it does settle
down. I can't think what it could be doing indefinitely, or why it
should start sometime _after_ being started.

Closing the search
window doesn't stop it; however, selecting Exit from the menu that
appears when I right-click on the tray icon does stop it, within a small
number of seconds.

It's consistent - meaning Exit-ing it _always_ stops the 25% and fan, so
I am definite that Everything is the cause; I can't say that running it
always starts the 25% [I just started it again while typing this post,
and it hasn't gone berserk yet - Task Manager shows it sitting there at
00 CPU. It also came up immediately, with the search box showing all
files, i. e. without the few seconds' wait I usually experience when I
start it, so it presumably has some cache somewhere or something.]

I just have a simple system - two partitions on one HD; in particular, I
_don't_ have any network drives.

You might ask what I'm _doing_ when it goes berserk: I can't say it is
always this, but usually downloading a video file or two: I tend to have
Everything open as I use it to see if I've already got a particular file
before starting the download. But once E. has started its berserking,
even if I don't download any more, it doesn't stop 25%ing after the
current download has completed.

If voidtools _are_ doing some mining, I probably wouldn't mind, but I've
just looked at the website - there's no mention of such. Nor anything in
the FAQ about "why is Everything using so much CPU" or similar question.

If not (and I really don't think it is), I'm very puzzled about what it
_is_ doing! I did ask this here before, and I think there were
suggestions about doing a re-index; but I can't see why it should do
that continuously, especially when I'm not doing anything.

[FWIW, for the several minutes since I restarted it a few paragraphs
ago, it _hasn't_ gone above 00 in Task Manager. Maybe that's what I'll
have to do in futu start it, stop it when it goes berserk, then start
it again. But it seems decidedly odd!]

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