Spotlight stuck at "estimating index time"

Question

During normal work, Spotlight tries to build an index and remains stuck at "estimating index time". I have reviewed various threads about the problem but none solves my issue.
In my case the time machine volume is set as "do not index" in the privacy settings of Spotlight. Nothing else is there. Right in this moment no volume is connected and estimating index time remains there, at the cost of high CPU usage and fan noise.
What can I do?

Answer 1

Start time: 06:35:09 09/27/14
Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,1
System Version: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.3.0
Time since boot: 1 day22:30
SATA
   WDC WD20EURS-63S48Y0                   
   WDC WD20EURS-63S48Y0                   
Thunderbolt
   Thunderbolt Station (CalDigit, Inc.)
   My Book Thunderbolt Duo (Western Digital)
USB
   USB audio CODEC (Texas Instruments Japan)
   USB Optical Mouse (Microsoft Corporation)
   ML-2855 Series (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
   MX920 series (Canon Inc.)
Diagnostic reports
   2014-08-28 Mail crash
   2014-09-01 OutBank crash
   2014-09-03 Control Center crash
   2014-09-12 coreaudiod crash
   2014-09-13 Control Center crash
   2014-09-17 Control Center crash
   2014-09-19 iTunes crash
   2014-09-21 mds_stores crash
Log
   Sep 26 07:08:47 process systemstats[25655] thread 166193 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 99%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 132.965629 seconds, (128.676638 user, 4.288991 system) ledger info: balance: 90014462857 credit: 132900538991 debit: 42886076134 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 90140654538
   Sep 26 08:48:27 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 26 10:48:37 IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 13 (rounded time weighted average 13)
   Sep 26 10:48:38 IOPPF: Sent gpu-external-plimit-notification last value 5 (rounded time weighted average 1)
   Sep 26 10:48:38 IOPPF: Sent gpu-internal-plimit-notification last value 5 (rounded time weighted average 1)
   Sep 26 10:50:00 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #4, bssid 88
   Sep 26 12:34:36 Sandbox: mdworker(Sandbox: 92890) mdwdeorker(ny 9file-2889) redead-data /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Scripting.localized/Sample Scripts.localized/JavaScript.localinzedy file-read-data /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Scripting.localized/Sample Scripts.localized/AppleScript.localize/d/.l.lococalized
   Sep 26 14:02:37 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 26 17:15:28 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 26 19:15:38 IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 22 (rounded time weighted average 22)
   Sep 26 19:15:39 IOPPF: Sent gpu-external-plimit-notification last value 15 (rounded time weighted average 10)
   Sep 26 19:15:39 IOPPF: Sent gpu-internal-plimit-notification last value 14 (rounded time weighted average 9)
   Sep 26 19:16:28 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 26 22:54:21 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 26 23:22:10 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 27 01:22:20 IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 15 (rounded time weighted average 15)
   Sep 27 01:22:21 IOPPF: Sent gpu-external-plimit-notification last value 6 (rounded time weighted average 2)
   Sep 27 01:22:21 IOPPF: Sent gpu-internal-plimit-notification last value 6 (rounded time weighted average 2)
   Sep 27 01:23:10 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 27 03:23:21 IOPPF: Sent gpu-external-plimit-notification last value 7 (rounded time weighted average 2)
   Sep 27 03:23:21 IOPPF: Sent gpu-internal-plimit-notification last value 7 (rounded time weighted average 2)
   Sep 27 03:23:21 IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 20 (rounded time weighted average 15)
   Sep 27 03:24:10 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
   Sep 27 05:25:00 process systemstats[54659] thread 1698933 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 50%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.117847 seconds, (82.485215 user, 7.632632 system) ledger info: balance: 90001171320 credit: 90001171320 debit: 0 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 178965635168
   Sep 27 05:25:10 AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en3]:        0      be0 mDNS_Callback - failed to flatten, likely too big.
Swap (MiB): 1562
Activity
   CPU: user 15%, system 4%
CPU per process: systemstats (UID 0) is using 99,3  %
I/O per process: kernel_task (UID 0) is using 10 MB/s
Memory: kernel_task (UID 0) is using 1199 MB
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   Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist
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Listeners
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