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? >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." > > Patrick Moore > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss