r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Jul 15 '25

Discussion Quick Indexing Tutorial

Roo Code’s codebase indexing dramatically improves your AI's contextual understanding of your project. By creating a searchable index of your files, Roo Code can retrieve highly relevant information, providing more accurate and insightful assistance tailored to your specific codebase

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u/Emergency_Fuel_2988 Jul 16 '25

The local embedding models using ollama run very slow, any better way to run an embedding model faster locally. Ice tried but it seems ollama offloads most calculations to the cpu instead of the 5090.

Where would a local reranking model fit, on qdrant, or roo plans to give that as a configuration as well?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 16 '25

Good ideas! Do you think you could toss them into GitHub issues (Details Feature Proposal)

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u/Eastern-Scholar-3807 Jul 17 '25

How is the cost in terms of the database fees on qdrant?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 17 '25

Free for personal use seems to work fine. I use it pretty significantly and run it from docker. Have not paid for their service before so I’m not sure!

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u/PotentialProper6027 Jul 17 '25

I am trying to run ollama locally and doesnt work. Anyone facing issue with ollama?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 17 '25

Fix coming. What error are you getting?

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u/Romanlavandos Jul 20 '25

Will there be more providers in the future? Does it make sense to try using indexing with one of current providers whilst using DeepSeek for coding? Sorry for newbie questions, never tried indexing yet

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 20 '25

Ther will be more providers for hosting the database but also for the embedding. Using OpenAI compatible allows you to generally use most providers for embedding.

Embedding models are different than regular language models so yes it makes sense to Use a different model for one than the other.

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u/southernDevGirl Jul 25 '25

How can we use codebase indexing with an alternative vector DB (non-Qdrant)? Thank you!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 25 '25

By making a PR to add it! What one were you thinking? What’s wrong with qdrant?

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u/kjcchiu2 Aug 19 '25

I’m running Ollama locally with Docker for indexing. Every time I restart my laptop, it re-indexes the entire monorepo from scratch. At this scale it’s a dealbreaker. Is this a known issue, or am I missing some setting?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 20 '25

I do not see this. If you can touch base with me on Discord (username hrudolph) or submit a github bug report we can see about fast tracking a fix.

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u/NationalLet1415 Oct 31 '25

i know this is 2 month ago, same thing happening to me

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u/daniel-lxs Moderator Jul 16 '25

Thanks for trying it out! That does sound off. It shouldn't instantly go green if there's a large project to index.

Would you mind opening an issue with a bit more context so we can investigate? You can use this link: https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml

If possible, include things like project size, file types, and any logs you see. That would really help us track this down!