Accelerating content index creation

To accelerate the creation of a new content index catalog, you can temporarily increase the priority of the Indexing Service (cisvc.exe and one cidaemon.exe process per vault) or Windows Search (SearchIndexer.exe).

Before you begin

You must have administrative permissions on the Indexing Service computer to perform this procedure.

To increase the priority of a process:

1. Open Windows Task Manager and click the Processes tab. The list of active processes appears.
2. Right-click the process name to accelerate, point to Set Priority, and select Realtime. This will cause the processes to run at the same priority as normal applications, greatly reducing the time required to build content indexes.

Note    Raising the priority of other processes will adversely affect Meridian performance and should only be done after production hours.

3. When the catalog is complete, restore the process priorities to resume normal operation.