In my recent experience finding a distro
that wouldn't lock up on my machine, I had the problem of akonadi
slowing my machine so much it acts almost as if it's locked up.
Even on slackware 14 it was a problem. A minute or two after
starting kde, the system stopped doing whatever it was doing. I
would press ctrl+esc to bring up the system activity window and I
would literally have to wait a minute or two before it appeared.
Every time there were 4 or 5 processes with akonadi in the name
that together consumed 8GB of memory. Once I closed them the
system returned to normal. A few days ago I figured out how to
disable them. I've had no problems since.
On 01/09/2013 11:52 AM, Brian Cluff
wrote:
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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