Well I have an odd problem, but first a quick background of how I got here:
My desktop computer I use as my unstable/testing machine, since the hardware is newer and it's not critical whether or not it's working 100%. My laptop, on the other hand, I use for work and travel quite a bit. So recently I downloaded the Natty Alpha 3 iso and went to install it over my existing 10.10 installation. The installer, for whatever reason, wouldn't work on my machine, so I decided to just do the old "do-release-upgrade -d" and everything installed without error. Copied some coding projects, documents, pictures, etc. back to my Home directory (via the CLI where I did the upgrade) and rebooted.
Now, the problem:
The system boots normally, I login via KDM and KDE starts. A few seconds later my mouse begins to lag and things become very choppy and unresponsive. So, I hit CTRL-ESC to bring up "System Activity" and I have 6 processes eating all (or close to it) 8Gigs of RAM: akonadi_maildis, akonadi_kontact, akonadi_nepomuk, akonadi_maildir, akonadi_ical_re, akonadi_control. So, with the lag... it takes me a couple minutes to kill the top-level akonadi_control process to get my RAM free for everything else to use and be happy.
I have desktop search disabled in system settings, and I don't have any mail etc. programs running so I'm not sure why Akonadi is running at all. Maybe I'm confused as to what Akonadi actually does, or what it is actually doing. I have never had a problem with it in the past (even with 4.0), but for some reason it's decided that my RAM is all it's own.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
My desktop computer I use as my unstable/testing machine, since the hardware is newer and it's not critical whether or not it's working 100%. My laptop, on the other hand, I use for work and travel quite a bit. So recently I downloaded the Natty Alpha 3 iso and went to install it over my existing 10.10 installation. The installer, for whatever reason, wouldn't work on my machine, so I decided to just do the old "do-release-upgrade -d" and everything installed without error. Copied some coding projects, documents, pictures, etc. back to my Home directory (via the CLI where I did the upgrade) and rebooted.
Now, the problem:
The system boots normally, I login via KDM and KDE starts. A few seconds later my mouse begins to lag and things become very choppy and unresponsive. So, I hit CTRL-ESC to bring up "System Activity" and I have 6 processes eating all (or close to it) 8Gigs of RAM: akonadi_maildis, akonadi_kontact, akonadi_nepomuk, akonadi_maildir, akonadi_ical_re, akonadi_control. So, with the lag... it takes me a couple minutes to kill the top-level akonadi_control process to get my RAM free for everything else to use and be happy.
I have desktop search disabled in system settings, and I don't have any mail etc. programs running so I'm not sure why Akonadi is running at all. Maybe I'm confused as to what Akonadi actually does, or what it is actually doing. I have never had a problem with it in the past (even with 4.0), but for some reason it's decided that my RAM is all it's own.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
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