[Kde-pim] Did we reintroduce some performance issues with KDE 4.10?

[Shaheed Haque]

Can I also suggest that we try to ensure the user's expectations are
managed in terms of "what happens if I kill the cleaner and restart
it" and other such scenarios.

(I've written such tools before, and if my experience can hel pdraft
some wording, please feel free to rope me in).

And yes, a pointer to what major distros like Fedora/Ubuntu/Suse mine
might have called this binary would be useful indeed :-)

On 4 February 2013 14:33, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 03/02/13 19:18, Lailah wrote:
>> El dom, 03-02-2013 a las 02:48 +0530, Vishesh Handa escribió:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Jos Poortvliet
>>> <jos at opensuse.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Considering the removing of legacy data, empty tags, duplicate
>>>> tags, duplicate file metadata, duplicate icons and other cruft
>>>> the Nepomuk Cleaner is spending hours on removing from my
>>>> nepomuk database, I'm guessing there is a slightly above-zero
>>>> gain to be had.
>>>>
>>>> I'm quite happy with the nepomuk cleaner: it has led to a HUGE
>>>> speed increase in KMail, so much that instead of opening all
>>>> folders I regularly use in tabs I can now just open them on
>>>> demand, without having to wait well over a minute per folder
>>>> for them to open.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Vishesh, and yes, I think it's a good idea to find out
>>>> if we can somehow, not too intrusively, run this upon a upgrade
>>>> to a newer version of Nepomuk.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For me it took a total of 20 hours (not a typo) to migrate all
>>> the akonadi legacy data. That is one of the main reasons why we
>>> just cannot run it on an upgrade.
>>>
>>> I suppose we could just throw away all the legacy Nepomuk data.
>>> Don't know.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I think it would be better if it just throw away all the old legacy
>>  data....
>>
> A delay of that sort, without adequate warning, will cause panic,
> aborted upgrades, and a lot of problems.  Instead, I would recommend
> giving maximum publicity, especially on the download pages, to the
> fact that the cleaning is recommended prior to starting the upgrade,
> but must be allowed several hours to run.  I'd even recommend that
> it's run overnight, if that's possible.
>
> Incidentally, from which version of KDE is the cleaner available?
>
> Anne
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