On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:50:07PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I just finished doing an install of KDE-4.13.1. It starts fine and I don't > really notice any interface issues (other than the designed ones :). > > However, I do notice in top: > > PID USER VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 24929 bdubbs 250796 9552 7688 R 98.3 0.1 824:28.64 akonadiserver > > Having a process using basically all of a core is not something I want. A > few google entries discuss the same thing, but they are a few years old. > > This happens even when the window manager is idle (blanked) and I am only > accessing the system via ssh. > > Does anyone here know what is happening and how to fix this? > > -- Bruce > I think akonadi is the application which indexes _everything_ for the so-called semantic desktop which is one of the features of kde4. If I am right, it was one of the reasons I gave up on kde4 - in those days I only had single core processors. ISTR that when I found out what was using so much CPU I looked at what it was using and found it was creating gigabytes of index which I did not want. OTOH, I ran kde4 with a few extras on one machine for an hour or so a few months ago and did not notice akonadi. But, I probably didn't check 'top' or look at the sizes of the dotfiles.
Is this a kde upgrade or a new install ? For a new install I would be tempted to leave it for a few hours, to see if it completes. If it does, I would monitor it for a few days to see if it continues to use a lot of CPU for long periods, e.g. when files in ~/ change. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
