KDE search regularly freezes for several seconds

[chaoscommander]

I have recently started having an issue where the KDE Plasma Search utilities (both in the task bar menu and in KRunner) hang for a few seconds almost everytime I start typing. I have searched the web and found several posts on different forums, complaining about the same thing, all without any solution. Does anyone here have an idea what might cause this? Does anyone else experience it? I haven't changed any settings related to Plasma Search, so I'm guessing it came with one of the latest updates. I'm currently using krunner 5.96.0 and plasma 5.24.6. I'm not using search indexing (as I had severe system performance impact from that a few years back).