[kde-linux] Akonadi_maildir_resource

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 26 July 2010 18:42:08 David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 26 July 2010 13:00:17 kde-linux-request at kde.org wrote:
> > > My KDE4 is excruciatingly slow to start up. The culprit is Akonadi.
> > > Specifically akonadi_maildir_resource. A zillion of these start up and
> > > until most of them die out, nothing can move. I have not been able to
> > > simply ask for one or a desired small number of these (I have one
> > > vcs/maildir folder--how many "resources" does the require for kmail to
> > > run properly?).
> > 
> > By default there should only be one maildir resource.
> > It is being created as a requirement of the mail dispatcher agent and
> > operates  on $HOME/.local/share/local-mail
> > 
> > There was a bug in one of the earlier 4.4 versions (IIRC) that made the
> > maildispatcher not see the resource it had created so it continue to
> > create  new ones.
> > 
> > You should be able to remove them by running
> > 
> > kcmshell4 kcm_akonadi
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > akonadiconsole.
> > 
> > As a rule of thumb there is one resource per distinct storage location,
> > e.g.  one vcard resource per multi contact vcard file, one maildir
> > resource per maildir tree (operating on the selected directory and all
> > its subdirectories, i.e. not one resource be subdirectory).
> 
> I "removed" maybe 80 of them. No fooling. Also got rid of the extra address
> book resources. On KDE restart, the change seems to have stuck.
> 
> All those extra maildir_resources were pointing to nothing. I kept one and
> manually pointed it to the real maildir folder.
> 
> What a difference.
> 
At a guess, you probably added a bunch with every effort to get it started :-)  
Glad you got it sorted.

Anne
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