OK, I believe I figured out how to turn off Baloo - and I haven't had any zombies for a few days, so it appears to be working:

Under system settings, search, File Search:  unclick - enable file search
Under system settings, search, Plasma Search:  unclick - Desktop Search; unclick - Plasma Desktop Shell

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
Rex, as I understand it, this is related to baloo... is there a simple way to turn it off until this can get fixed?  Something is triggering it on my machine, but I haven't been able to figure out exactly what... it just seems to spin out of control from time to time.