Alternative search app?

[Mariux.mac]

hello is there an alternative search app? alternative to spotlight? becose i whan to disable spotlight

 

[72930]

I use Quicksilver
Some people use Google Desktop but I personally don't like it.

 

[Mariux.mac]

does Quicksilver index files like spotligt and use more CPU?

 

[numlock]

does Quicksilver index files like spotligt and use more CPU?

quicksilver will use quite a lot of memory if you want it to index everything.

there are some other programs that i think use the spotlight search engine

 

[todd2000]

does Quicksilver index files like spotligt and use more CPU?

Spotlight really shouldn't be using a lot of CPU, or Memory for that matter. Maybe when it first indexes, but not after that. Right now it is using 0%CPU, and 65MB of Ram for mds, and Spotlight. I assume it uses a small amout of CPU when you add/change files so it can update the index, but still nothing that will slow down the computer at all. So why disable it?