[clairity]

mine doesn't relaunch, but i honestly don't remember how i changed that behavior, sorry!

dunno why, but my finder uses 2-5% constantly when running, and spawns a bunch of other processes (like mdworker) as well, which also suck away battery. better to keep it off for me.

[nicwolff]

mdworker is what keeps your simple Spotlight file search working ツ

[clairity]

well yes (and also for backing up i believe), but at least for me, there aren't tons of files that i care about which change often, so i don't need it constantly going off and cataloging the latest homebrew updates or whatever.

[KennyBlanken]

You can exclude opt and any other directories full of frequently changing files you don't care about spotlight indexing.

[solarkraft]

Why isn't that the default?

[clairity]

ah yes, i should look into doing that.