Why does LaunchBar cause Perl to take up lots of CPU resources?

Alex talked up LaunchBar enough that I finally started using it. I like it, but it has a tendency to cause my CPU to spike, all apparently due to “perl”. Is this an indexing thing, or do I have something set incorrectly?

2304 CDT: Looks like the indexing of Camino’s history was hanging up. Because I have a ridiculously large History file [I kept it at 365 days until just now], it was just taking forever to index. I changed the configuration in LaunchBar [Open Configuration, deselect the Camino History checkbox] and then opened Terminal to kill the process [ps -aux | grep "perl", look for the process ID, kill -9 process_id] and my load went back to normal. Learn something new every day, I guess …

Posted October 3rd, 2007 in Apple and Macs.

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