This is by design. The crawl process must scan the entire table to determine
what has been removed from the table since the last incremental population.
Change tracking is the best option for what you are looking for.

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> The table being indexed has only one changed row, but when i do an
> incremental population the table is being hit millions of times (millions
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> also be issued 50 million times."
> - Hilary Cotter
Ian Boyd - 06 Jun 2007 21:55 GMT
> Change tracking is the best option for what you are looking for.
i know, but this is on an SQL7 system.
It's sucky that i have to bog down the server for 4 hours, so that full-text
can update one row.