Greedy korgac

[Frank Reifenstahl]

> > for a few weeks theres a greedy process "korgac" which after running KDE
> > for about a week occupies 1 GB of memory. Anybody out there to tell me
> > how to handle that problem?
>
> korgac is the "alarm daemon" for korganizer alarms, which pops up the
> notification window.
> I also have this problem once in a while.
> I think there are some things you can try (although they are all not nice):
>
> 1) If you don't need alarms for your events, you can turn off korgac
> completely. (kcontrol/KDE Components/Service manager/Alarm Daemon)

Did so, but after pressing "STOP" kcontrol signals "not running", but korgac 
doesn't care. Do i have to reboot? ;)

> 2) you could simply stop and restart korgac from time to time

O.k. - how? "killall orgac" and then "korgac --miniicon korganizer"?

> 3) you can probably try to use a different type of resource to store your
> events into (e.g. localdir resource - which has some bad performance issues
> up to KDE-3.3).

How to?

> 4) you can reduce the number of events in your calendar, which korgac is
> checking, by archiving older events, and defining those events to be shown
> in korganizer as a new read only resource (not tried this one but it should
> work this way).
>
> Hope that helps ...

A cute korgac that doesn't bloat itself would be more enjoyable.

Kind regards
Frank
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