Everything 1.5.0.1391a consuming a lot of memory

[seaweedguitarist]

As evidenced by the screenshot, Everything consumes a lot of memory while running in the background. There appear to be two processes running: one with system-level privileges and another with user-level privileges. The "Start Everything on system startup" option is turned on in order to make Everything work with Directory Opus. In addition, Flow Launcher is also set to find stuff via Everything. The Everything.ini file is also attached for reference.

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[NotNull]

The "high" memory usage comes from the content-indexed files.
This content is also stored in the database and the entire database is loaded in memory (RAM)
(Everything does not use the database on disk other than to store when exiting)

For the basic file information (name, path, size, date modified) Everything needs roughly 100MB for 1 million items (files/folders)
The total amount of items can be seen in the statusbar before entering a search query.

The rest is indexed content. Or indexed properties, but you don't use that.

[seaweedguitarist]

Oh, there are a couple of large spreadsheet files on my desktop which seem to be the reason why it's taking up so much RAM. Is there any way I could have the XLS and XLSX files on my desktop excluded but still have their content indexed for other locations?

[NotNull]

Sure.

- Go to Menu => Tools => Options => Indexes => Content
- Type or paste the following in the Exclude files: field:

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C:\Users\user\Desktop\**.xls;C:\Users\user\Desktop\**.xlsx

TIP:
Hover the mouse above any input box in the Options dialog to get more information.
About use-case and syntax, for example.


Offtopic:
seaweedguitarist ... Seaweed is the name of your band? Or did someone steal your air-guitar and this your back-up guitar"?