[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

[David Naylor]

On Monday 01 November 2010 09:17:04 Mike Barnard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mike Barnard 
<mike.barnardq at gmail.com>wrote:
> > as mentioned above, I think my PIM not working well is due to akonadi
> > crashing... I'll pay more attention to it next time it acts up and check
> > what is not running and what has dumped core.
> 
> OK.. I had some time to take a look at this and try and figure out what was
> going on.
> 
> Akonadi consumes almost all my 2GB of memory and eating about 36% of CPU
> when things get slowed down, Xorg is spiraling out of control, eating about
> 60% of CPU and some 1GB of memory.

I only use KMail (without Kontact) and I've never seen akonadi use so much 
resources.  It does look like akonadi is misbehaving, perhaps upstream can 
help with that.  

> If I kill kontact, the 2GB memory is released and Xorg drops to about 16%
> of CPU, but still eats up about 1GB of memory.
> 
> I updated my ports collection and updated all out-of-date ports and still
> the same behaviour. I notice that there have been a few patches, I am
> updating my ports collection again this morning and will get any ports out
> of date back up-to-date and check again.

Recompiling everything may fix it.  It is possible some dependency is not ABI 
forward compatible.  

> PS: Akonadi is not crashing this time round, it just consumes lots of
> resources. Any one with ideas on what to check for, I'll get on it.

You can also try cleaning out akonadi resources, such as:

# rm -rf ~/.local/share/akonadi
# rm -rf ~/.config/akonadi

(make sure you back up, may eat your data)
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