[Kde-pim] Why so many instances of resources / agents running?

[Gregory Schlomoff]

Thanks Kevin,

I'll try to investigate the reason of this bug later, and report it in
the appropriate place.

Cheers,

Greg

2010/9/22 Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Monday, 2010-09-20, Gregory Schlomoff wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for the great feedback on my last mail. One of the main
>> things I learned is that I should not hesitate to ask questions, so here it
>> goes:
>>
>> Why so many agents?
>
> Bug :)
>
>> I have just killed all kde / akonadi related processes, built kdepim from
>> the latest revision, and started KMail. I now have the following processes:
>>
>> - 10 instances of akonadi_contacts_resource.exe,  each taking 26MB of RAM.
>> - 2 instances of akonadi_ical_resource.exe
>> - 2 instances of akonadi_maildir_resource
>> - 1 instance of akonadi_imap_resource
>> - 1 instance of akonadi_maildispatcher_agent
>> - And a bunch of other stuff (the usual akonadi_control + akonadi_server, 2
>> nepomuk-related processes, etc...)
>>
>> So all this is taking quite a lot of memory (roughly 400 MB), but what
>> I really don't understand are the 10 instances
>> of akonadi_contacts_resource.exe, given that I haven't configured anything
>> save from my GMail IMAP account.
>
> Some of these, i.e. one akonadi_contacts_resource and one
> akonadi_ical_resource, are created by a mechanims called "FirstStart".
> It basically creates a common default setup for a PIM environment (one address
> book, one calendar).
> This is configurable by simple text based files in
> PREFIX/share/apps/akonadi/firstrun.
>
> The akonadi_maildir_resource is a dependency of the
> akonadi_maildispatcher_agent (default outbox and sent-file folders).
> Which in turn gets started because its .desktop file tells Akonadi to
> autostart it (see PREFIX/share/akonadi/agents).
>
> The two Nepomuk agents also get autostarted IIRC.
>
> Now, having so many of some of these is almost certainly a bug if you haven't
> explicitly added more of them.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
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