disable akonadi

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday September 01 2018 21:51:57 Draciron Smith wrote:
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>On the first machine machine I put KDE 5 on, it only has 2 gigs of ram and
>2 gig swap partition. It's sort of reflex for me to create swap partition
>same size as ram. In hindsight I probably should have gone with a 4 gig

The reflex should be to create a swap partition 2x the size of RAM. More is possible but I'm not sure if it will help.
Of course one uses a fast part of the disk for this ;)

Running the kind of session you describe on a machine with only 2Gb of RAM is probably an exercise in SM with any modern DE... Chrome readily uses around 600Mb just for the central process, FireFox even more; extensions like AdBlock run as a separate process and can grow quite large; the same applies for each tab you open. Audacity is surprisingly lightweight in comparison, even for large projects.
(You'd at least need to install The Great Suspender in all the browsers you use.)

>That's the thing. I am not using ANY Akondi agents. I use webmail clients
>for email, my phone is my contact manager, I never use Knotes or any other
>Akondi enabled apps.

So what akonadi process was hogging?
I don't think I ever had zero akonadi agents configured, did you ever try to add a single agent that's unlikely to use a lot of resources, like a local calendar? There is (or used to be) an akonadi dependency in the default clock panel widget, and I could imagine that no one thought to check how that behaves when akonadi is running without any agents. The akonadi server is the central access hub for all PIM functionality and badly written clients could well bombard it with requests if they detect akonadi on the dbus without ever checking if the agent they want is available.

R.