die, akonadi, die

[O. Sinclair]

On 28/07/2013 16:23, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Yes (sigh!) Yet Another akonadi thread...
>
> Following some recent Kubuntu update, akonadi's behaviour here is even more
> obnoxious than ever (hard to believe, I know).
>
> On my main desktop machine: very few hours, I find the hard drive light
> solidly on and some number of akonadi-related processes consuming the CPU. In
> the past, the "fix" was easy, albeit annoying: either send a "kill -9" to all
> the akonadi processes or stop the server by using the akonadi icon in the
> system tray. But now the relief is temporary: after a few hours, I invariably
> find on returning to the computer that akonadi is back, consuming everything.
>
> So does anyone know how I can stop this abomination eating the computer every
> few hours?
>
>    Doc
>
> PS Before I wrote this I checked, and there were  15 (!) akonadi-related
> processes, all vying for CPU time -- including nepomuk, which isn't even
> turned on according to the control panel (or whatever name kcontrol goes by
> these days).
>
>
>
I am on Kubuntu 12.10 with all KDE upgrades (backports) so on 4.10.5. I 
actively use KDEPIM and have about 5 mail accounts and 2 calendars and I 
see nothing of what you describe. I have a number of akonadi processes 
doing nothing when I am not checking mail, doing search or similar.

And yes, I have Desktop Search and Mail indexing switched on.

So my question is more like what is triggering this behaviour for you? 
What version of Kubuntu, what version of KDE? Are you using KMail and so on?

Sinclair