Re: kmail error

Am Donnerstag 07 Oktober 2010 14:30:35 schrieb Ulf von Barth:
> Dear KDE users,
> 
> I recently "upgraded" to KDE 4.4.5 just to find that kmail does not
> work properly any more on my new AMD dual core
> (x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+) computer
> running Gentoo Linux (2.6.34-gentoo-r6-cyprien-FTT).
> When I open kmail I get error messages from Akonadi (see enclosed
> file). If I ignore the message I can use kmail as I did before the
> "upgrade" but if I click away the message, kmail crashes.
> I laso discovered that my machine is now about a factor of ten
> slower than before the upgrade. This is most likely due to new
> software automatically installed by my latest KDE such as
> nepomuk and strigi. Needless to say, I have no use for akonadi,
> nepomuk, or strigi!
> How can I solve this problem?
> Best Regards, vonbarth


Hi Ulf, 

I can only give you a tip for the second issue of deactivating nepomuk/strigi. 
You can turn off these 'services', which should make your computer faster and 
lead to much less CPU ressources being used. So far I have not experienced any 
disadvantages of deactivating strigi desktop search or nepomuk, but Kmail is 
only my secondary mail client and I do not use Kontact very much, so your 
experience might be different.

So how to actually do this:

Go to "System Settings" to configure your KDE apps globally and there click on 
the tab "Advanced"
Under "Desktop Search" you can turn off "Nepomuk semantic services" and/or 
"strigi"
If you go back to "System Settings" - tab "Advanced", right next to "Desktop 
Search" you can have a look at a list of all KDE services started automatically 
when booting or manually while running. You might want to turn off something else 
too.
This trick did wonders for me as about 25-30 % of my CPU power was used up by 
file indexing. Quite frankly I still cannot see much of an advantage there, for 
as a simple user my data is not so large that these services should make much 
difference, but maybe there are some cool tools/options I do not know of which 
require them.
I do not know how to configure the other services one would rather like to be 
turned off, but I think others on this list will be able to help you and it might 
actually be quite easy to do just by looking a little bit around in "System 
Settings".

I hope this helps at least a little bit,

Pascal

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