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I using Arch Linux with XFCE/XFWM4. The default FM is very lightweight thunar, but I installed dolphin for some more functionality.

I was studying about large files and creating some 2 gigs of files on my system. I suddenly saw my system is going wild where baloo_file_extractor uses 3.1 GiB RAM! I suddenly killed it.

But every time I create a big file, I see baloo_file_extractor uses up all of my RAM and start consuming swap again and again.

On the other hand, I haven't used dolphin for weeks now. Why does it daemonize baloo when dolphin is not in use?

Apart from uninstalling baloo, baloo_widgets and dolphin file manager, is there any other way to prevent that from happening again?

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Run balooctl disable. That'll turn off baloo and you won't need to uninstall anything.

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