Help! Indexing SMB drive consumes bandwidth freezing computer!! Throttle?

[MrHua]

Hello Everything Friends,

I love Everything. Its better the file explorer. Mad thanks and <3.

However on my windows 11 (and before with windows 10) I am experiencing an issue which I believe is indexing SMB mounted drives.

It fine during the day but if I stay up too late, I can see the Everything process start to consume "network" bandwidth. If I use local resources, my windows 11 pc is fine. No lag no delay. But if I try to access something on the SMB mounted NAS drive, it will hang. Thus streaming movies or even mp3 files from that drive all hang. Sometimes I can change everything to "pause indexing" but usually its too late and Everything is hung. I can't kill the process with taskkill nor from the task manager > end process. Only recourse is to reboot the pc (shutdown -r).

Is there a way to throttle the bandwidth consumed? Or "slow" the process when indexing remote mounted drives? Its odd because I have the "monitor for changes" chacked, but I only ever notice this in the wee hours like 2am-ish or so.

Are there troubleshooting steps I could take to find out what exectly Everything is doing or trying to do that might be causing this? I thought it might be my NAS doing something, but after reboot (shutdown -r) minutes later it works fine, so, its probably not my NAS.

I am on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26200.7623] (Windows 11 version 25H2)
Everything is Version 1.5.0.1396a (x64)
System cpu is i9-14900KF with 64gb RAM.

[void]

Thank you for your feedback MrHua,

Everything should be using minimal IO to rescan and monitor your NAS for changes.

Is there a way to throttle the bandwidth consumed?

To set Everything to only access the NAS when there's no IO:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  thread
• Select: folder_update_thread_mode_background
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

Note: enabling folder_update_thread_mode_background can prevent Everything from ever completing a rescan.

Are there troubleshooting steps I could take to find out what exectly Everything is doing or trying to do that might be causing this?

Please check Help -> Troubleshooting Information.
Are you indexing any properties or content?

Is Everything performing a rescan? (is Rescanning x:\... shown in the status bar on the right?)

Please check the debug console under Tools -> Debug -> Console.
Detected changes made to your NAS are shown with RDC ... in Cyan color.
Is Everything getting flooded with changes?