I was mostly talking about Strigi in my answer, I've also seen akonadi
behave badly like this. I had to play around with the system for a
while but I finally found that it was gagging on an old configuration
that I wasn't even using. I simply deleted the akonadi resources that I
wasn't using and everything went back to normal. I believe that if I
had been using the services that their configurations would have been
updated when I used their corresponding programs and I wouldn't have
seen the problem.
The bottom line is that it shouldn't have behaved that way in the first
place, but there was a simple, and semi-understandable answer in the end.
Akonadi has gone though a major rewrite and I believe newer versions of
KDE no longer go bonkers like that that... what version of KDE did you
experience this behavior? If I rememeber right, I saw that behavior in
what ever version of KDE was in Kubuntu 11.04 or older.
Brian Cluff
On 01/09/2013 04:14 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> 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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