Overall I've loved more or less every aspect of KDE 4.2, akonadi is the only big annoyance I have.

I use kmail, I have one task in korganizer, in a flat database, but it's not important.

And using that (checked with ps_mem) this is the memory usage akonadi results in:

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 26.6 MiB +  55.5 KiB =  26.7 MiB       mysqld
  3.5 MiB + 253.5 KiB =   3.7 MiB       akonadi_kcal_resource
  3.6 MiB + 260.5 KiB =   3.9 MiB       akonadi_kabc_resource
  2.5 MiB + 138.0 KiB =   2.6 MiB       akonadiserver   


Now the resources, and the akonadiserver, I really dont mind, but keeping mysqld running at all time to maintain a local flat database seems really bad to me. I'd imagine a most users have 0 use for the advanced PIM system akonadi can support, so keeping this much memory just incase is just horrible.

Has anyone seen any progress/bugreports/mailinglist discussions on this? I've looked around a bit on the bug tracker, but that's it, and this really annoys me.

The question is how much of this is a constant consumption and how much depends on data.

The compat resources you have there could probably set their caching policy to "not cache" since they already have the data in memory.

Any constant overhead will probably become less important once Akonadi handles mails.

At this point only very few applications require Akonadi, most importantly KPilot.

If you are not using any of them you can opt to not use it for now.
This is most likely to change with 4.3, when we expect to have KAddressBook (or its successor) and KOrganizer ported.

Cheers,
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Well turning it off in the control panel and it seems to auto turn itself back on (including the mysqld server, consuming considerable resources).

And if it's a future thing I dont mind keeping it around, but I dont want to see future development requiring me to upgrade hardware on old computers to enable advanced features I dont need, but is forced to use.

neuron wrote:Well turning it off in the control panel and it seems to auto turn itself back on (including the mysqld server, consuming considerable resources).

Hmm.
If you check Systemsettings -> Advanced Tab -> KResources, are there any Akonadi entries in there?

Cheers,
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