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Spotlight continuously tries to keep up with it's indexing ... this can however take resources, or even hinder TimeMachine backups, so at times, you might want to switch it OFF, which is done in Terminal as such:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
You can re-enable SpotLight indexing as follows:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
I've tested this up to El Capitan successfully ...
