11.10 virtuoso-t problem

[O. Sinclair]

On 25/11/11 02:24, theuteck at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, November 24, 2011 09:24:17 PM O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 24/11/11 18:56, theuteck at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I removed the virtoso and nepomuk stuff since it was doing that to me as
>>> well. I don't want or need the service it offers and by slowing my
>>> system down it just annoyed me, otherwise I would not have bothered
>>> with the hassle of removing it.
>>>
>>> Now I get some errors when I start up or resume about nepomuk indexing,
>>> but I can ignore the them.  My systems runs just fine without it.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, November 24, 2011 03:10:56 PM O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> On 24/11/11 14:17, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>>>> On 24 Nov 2011, at 12:02, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>>> Right,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> some time after a boot/login and ALWAYS when I start using
>>>>>> Kontact/KDEPIM 4.7 the "virtuoso-t" process start eating CPU. It
>>>>>> hovers between 40% and 50% basically, my CPU temp shoots up and
>>>>>> fans
>>>>>> start working like mad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is strigi/nepomuk related as it does not happen if I switch
>>>>>> off
>>>>>> desktop search and semantic desktop.>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried just leaving it for quite some time to see if it
>>>>> stops?
>>>>> If you have lots of emails it might just be doing an initial scan or
>>>>> indexing or something. Heaven only knows what… virtuoso-t is the
>>>>> database backend I think.>
>>>>>
>>>>>> anyone else seeing this, anyone knows how to cure it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not seeing it with KMail, but I was seeing it in various other
>>>>> situations (like when I plug in a removable hard drive, which it's
>>>>> supposed to ignore but doesn't).
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a setting somewhere to increase the memory available to it.
>>>>> This helped a little, but not very much. Akonadi is what drove me
>>>>> away
>>>>> from KDE in the end. It's a great concept but doesn't appear to have
>>>>> been properly thought through.
>>>>>
>>>>> My way to cure it? I bought a Mac. Never looked back. Still use KDE
>>>>> for
>>>>> some things, but I won't go back to it for day-to-day use.
>>>>
>>>> I have left in on over night... and it is now on day 3 or so of useage
>>>> since upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> I have put up memory for nepomuk/strigi to no avail whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> And your solution is not on my agenda :-)
>>
>> Unfortunately disabling Nepomuk means Address Book in Kontacts basically
>> stops working. What I mean is that if I compose a new mail I can see
>> "recent addresses" unless Nepomuk is active.
>
> Odd, it works fine for me, unless I did not disable it properly.  It is still
> syncing with my gmail addressbook fine, unless that is why it is working for
> me.  I still have akondi working since that controls the google access.
>

I got it back in the weirdest way I can/could imagine. I added an empty 
Address Book in Contacts and suddenly it started working (autocompletion 
from my vcard akonadi resource). I then removed it, rebooted etc and it 
still works...

Now that is what I call odd behaviour...

Sinclair