Akonadi - Is it really necessary?

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:33 PM, uteck <theuteck at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are using kmail or anything contained in kontact then akonadi
> is used for the settings and data.  If you use the nepomuk search,
> then you need it as well, or is that just virtuoso?  I think akonadi
> even stores the activities settings if you use them.
> If you don't use any of that extra crap like most people, then akonadi
> is just a resource hog.
>
> I got tired of my calendar not syncing in Kontact and switched to
> Thunderbird this week, so I don't have a reason to keep it, but I
> can't remove it since it is so tightly integrated into KDE.


I don't use Kontact or KMail or anything like that. I use GMail, Google
Calendar, etc., for all those tasks. I conclude that Akonadi isn't doing
anything on my computer other than hogging up valuable CPU usage.




> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Richard S. Crawford
> <richard at underpope.com> wrote:
> > I turned on my computer this morning (I'd added a new keyboard), and
> noticed
> > that it was running at a glacial pace. I opened a terminal window and
> > executed "top" just to see what was going on, and found four processes
> > related to Akonadi running, and each taking up at least 33% of CPU power.
> >
> > I've always wondered what Akonadi actually is and whether I actually
> need it
> > on my system. If not, how do I get rid of it, assuming it continues to
> slow
> > down my computer so much?
> >
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