Still 100% CPU when using Kontact - nearly SOLVED!

[George Dvorak]

 Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:33 AM, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 12/10/13 04:16, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>> On Friday, October 11, 2013 07:23:27 AM Bas G. Roufs wrote:
>> You have any idea how long you've been operating with the same $HOME
>> disk?
>>
>
>  Reason I ask is that when I moved to 13.10 BETA, I ran into some severe
>> CPU problems with MYSQL and Akonadi and Nepomuk trying to figure things
>> out. Never had the problem in 13.04 but I had other problems like search
>> not working in KMAIL. Today I started from scratch an rebuilt my entire
>> $HOME disk, with a lot of referencing to my old one to determine settings
>> for KMAIL and desktop frills. Now things are working like a charm. When I
>> went into my old $HOME to search for some things, I found that the layout
>> (directory names and organization) were no where NEAR what they are under a
>> clean $HOME. Totally different and I am surprised that the old one ran as
>> well as it did. Just saying.... it might be time to clean house.
>>
>
> This is actually a very good tip! I think many people have their home disk
> on a separate partition, and just either update or freshly install each new
> version of a distribution. So do I. So when a gui or distribution
> "reorganises:" their part of the configuration directories, it usually
> keeps what ever you have in there from previous versions. Thats where the
> mess comes from.
>
> It might even be a good idea to have the real data on a different
> partition than the "gui-fickle" part of the home directory.
> Usually it is the toplevel of the home directory with all the
> configuration files etc in it, that needs refreshing once in a while.
> The real data (documents, source, etc) could be on a separate partition.
>
> There is a caveat though. Some of the configuration directories also
> contain real data. For instance .kde has some subdirectory where you
> contacts are hidden. That is in my opinion a design error. You should be
> able to replace a .kde directory without destroying data.
> Unfortunately, mozilla / thunderbird / firefox do the same: your local
> mail repo is in a hidden "configuration" directory.
>
> Anyway, with a few caveats, you could separate data from configuration and
> refresh home partition once in awhile.
>
> Anyone else have different idea's?
>
> Guus.
>
>
Yes, I have my personal data in a seperate partition. and when things get
wierd I have reinstalled and reformatted both the root and $Home partitions
without having to worry about personal data. Guus you are the first person
that I have seen mention doing this. I have wondered why others did not see
the advantage. In fact it would be great if Linux did not automatically set
up a personal partition.

 George Dvorak

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