After upgrading my Android Studio to Arctic Fox, it keeps indexing my entire disk drive for c++ headers. My project contains NDK code, however, it appears that Android studio does not know what are the boundaries of my project and simply attempts to index all headers on my entire disk. Furthermore, it does that for every project that uses C++/NDK from the beginning.

This makes Android Studio completely unusable, as it does not allow running/debugging/profiling apps until it finishes building its index, and this takes more than 30 minutes on my Mac and consumes more than 17 GB of RAM (if I don't give enough memory to the JVM, Android Studio crashes with OutOfMemoryError).

Is there a way to either:

disable c++ indexing altogether (I'm using Android Studio just for coding the Java part of the app, debugging and profiling the app - I use other editors for C++ coding)?
or enabling Android studio to be able to run/debug/profile an app before it finishes indexing (currently it performs the Gradle build and then waits "for the device to come online", even though the device is online, visible to Android Studio and accessible via command-line ADB - actually it waits for "updating indices" to finish)?
or make C++ indexing work only for headers that are actually used by the app? This means that it won't scan my entire disk drive into memory.

I've attached two screenshots that better describe the problem. The first one shows the indexing window displaying that it's currently indexing Protobuf headers from my Conan cache folder, even though opened Android Studio project does not use Protobuf at all. However, it does use some other Conan packages - this probably triggered indexing of the entire ~/.conan/data folder, which is huge (hundreds of gigabytes). The second screenshot shows the memory usage of the Android Studio process in my Activity Monitor - it consumes a whopping 17.37 GB of memory, causing increased memory pressure on my Mac. Basically, in order to simply run/debug/profile the app from Android Studio, I need to turn off every other application (Chrome, docker VM, ...) that may also consume a large amount of memory.

Studio Build:

Android Studio Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 Patch 2 Build #AI-203.7717.56.2031.7678000, built on August 26, 2021 Runtime version: 11.0.10+0-b96-7281165 x86_64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o. macOS 11.5.2 GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation Memory: 16384M Cores: 16 Registry: external.system.auto.import.disabled=true Non-Bundled Plugins: IdeaVIM, org.jetbrains.kotlin

The version of Gradle Plugin: 7.0.1

The version of Gradle: 7.0.2