[gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

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It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare 
at the moment.

Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your 
response time reading all the files, wastes disk space building an 
index, and all for what?

So that programs you never use can a bit faster? What the hell is the 
point of shaving 10% of a run time of no seconds at all?

I tried to kill it and it appears to have just restarted. Is there a use 
flag I can use to just get rid of it completely?

What I find really frustrating is it claims to have been "built for 
speed". If it's streaming the contents of disk into ram so it can index 
it, it's going to completely knacker your system response whatever 
(especially if a program I WANT running is trying to do the same thing!)

Cheers,
Wol