Sometimes, this laptop goes crazy. The disk starts rotating, the system slows to a crawl, and when the terminal window finally opens and I run `top` I’ll see dozens of `mdworker` processes. They indexing the laptop’s disk, or the external disks, and every now and then they are confused and take forever. Is it because of the external disks? Is it because Claudia and I sometimes switch users? Is it because of a bug in the latest release of the operating system? Who knows, who cares.
Claudia doesn’t use Spotlight and I rarely do. So, time to disable it.
With all the external drives you care about mounted, run `mdutil -a -i off`. The `-a` flag tells `mdutil` to apply the command to all the volumes.
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