It used to be true that it could eat your system alive, these days it's 
mostly transparent, and when 4.10 is released next month it contains a 
major rewrite of the whole system and should be even more transparent.

If you leave it enabled, it can do a lot of really neat things like let 
you search for files based on their contents and tag files with all 
sorta if information.  For instance you can tag your pictures with 
information that would allow you to quickly find pictures of people, 
places and things from all over your hard drive.  In fact if you use 
Digikam, it has the ability of automatically tag new images of people 
based on facial recognition of people you have previously tagged.
The KDE programs automatically add all sorts of info, so you could even 
find files based on where they came from, so when you save attachments 
in kmail they are tagged with where they came from, so you could search 
for libreoffice files that came from person@place.com with the words 
"dog" in the document.  All pretty cool.
It does a lot more, but those are some of the highlights.  I used to 
turn it off because it had a tendency to eat enough system resources to 
become noticeable, but that was a couple of years ago.  These days I 
just leave it turned on, and I never notice it indexing anymore.

Brian Cluff

On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Does anybody use Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, Soprano, Virtuoso ?
>
> What is the purpose and benefit of all this stuff?
>
> Doing "locate akonadi" on my system found more than 200 files.
>
> Is there any good reason not to get rid of any and/or all of this stuff?
>
> I have read that they just eat up space and memory and cause one's system
> to run slower.
>
> Where can I find a list of other changes I could make to make my systems
> less cluttered and more efficient?
>
>
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