Disabling Spotlight in Leopard

[BlueRevolution]

Well, I made the jump to Leopard... only to find myself locked up for the first hour of using it. In that time, I found more reasons to go back to Tiger than I did to stick with Leopard, but I toughed it out and found it enjoyable to use once it sped up. Unfortunately, every time Spotlight tries to re-index everything slows down to a crawl again. I never use Spotlight, so does anyone know of a way to disable it under Leopard? I tried following the instructions here, but the Spotlight directive isn't present in the /etc/hostconfig file under Leopard.

Any suggestions?

 

[TabulaRasa]

I think just disabling Spotlight from indexing should be enough to stop Spotlight from slowing down your machine.

sudo mdutil -i off /

My understanding is that if you use the "-E" option, it Erases and starts re-indexing again whereas "-i off" completely stops indexing.

 

[BlueRevolution]

That's the ticket. Thanks a ton!