fileserver indexing service

[mikes]

Hi a few of our fileservers are hitting quite high CPU usage on the indexing service, despite indexing being shown as "complete" in indexing options.

I was wondering what best practice for indexing is on Windows fileservers.

Does the index allow client computers to search files using the index? (i.e. if i disable the service, will Windows search be a lot slower for users at their workstations); or does the indexer only apply for a user at the server console?

Is best practice to have the Indexing service disabled on fileservers? it is causing a not inconsiderable usage of CPU resources across our vhosts.

[BKGarry]

Quite interested in this one, as I am pretty sure I do not have it enabled at all. (Windows Search Service feature is not even installed)

 

I would be interested to see if people do have it installed and running on their file servers.

[roc1479]

Have you checked the size of your indexing file?

You may want to try rebuilding the index file, in the advanced indexing options.

Indexing does indeed speed up searches.