Spot light long recurrent indexing (days/weeks) on MBP - version 10.7.5

Hi there.
Each time I turn on my MBP, Spotlight starts running and after several minutes (half an hour) says it will need several days / weeks to complete the indexing.
This process consumes a lot of CPU and slows down the whole machine including VMWare Fusion.
I bought this MBP 2 years ago and always worked fine before installing 10.7.5.
My Mac OSX version is 10.7.5.
My MBP: Processor 2.53 Ghz Interl Core i5 / Memory = 8Go - 1067mHZ - DDR3.
I also use a Time Capsule 2 To.
I have found many forums about a bug in version 10.7.5. with the same symptoms.
Unfortunately, no solution has been found so far.
I was hoping that installing Lion Mountain would solve this issue but after reading your thread it gives me evidence it does not.
Does somebody have a solution to fix this issue?
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Cheers,
Philippe

Philippe Carino wrote:
Indeed, I noticed, even though the VM files have been excluded from Time Machine, Time Machine goes slower when the VM is open and faster when it is closed.
Are you sure they're all excluded? If they are, using them should make no noticeable difference in the speed of the backups (assuming the VM files are on the Mac's internal HD). The only exception I can think of would be, if they're not excluded from Spotlight, and it's having trouble indexing them, your CPU may get maxed-out.
>> I think they are all excluded from TM as you can see in the above screenshot. What do you think Pondini?
If there's any doubt, run a backup while the files are not in use. Then open them and run another backup. If it backs up a lot of data, once the backup is done, see what actually got backed-up, via one of the apps in #A2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting. That may shed some light on what's happening.
>> If you think there is a doubt I will do it.
You may also want to look at your CPU usage; if it's maxed-out, everything will run more slowly. Use the Activity Monitor app. If you're not familiar with it, it's in your Applications/Utilities folder and has pretty good Help). Click the CPU tab at the bottom, and watch the % idle. If that's under about 10% consistently, that's likely a problem. If so, you'll need to dig deeper to see what it is and what you can do about it.
>> I think the % idle is good as always around 90%
While you're at it, click the Disk Usage tab, and see what percentage is free. If it's under 10% or 10 GB, that's likely a problem. If it's fairly close to that, it could be affecting your performance, depending on several factors.
>> I think the Disk Usage is good as there are still 92.24 GB free
Yesterday, I used Time Machine and it lasted 3,5 hours which is quite reasonable since the last time I used it was 10 days ago.
Only if it backed-up a lot of data -- 3 GBs or so if you're backing-up wirelessly, double that or more if via Ethernet.
>> The last back-up I did was 269.7 Mo (3,5 hours) via Ethernet
>> Is it a normal performance?
Between, Spotlight is still working fine:).
Thanks again for your kind help Pondini.
I am off to the Pyrenees now and will be back on Monday.
I wish you a very pleasant weekend.
Cheers,
Philippe

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