On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 07:50 -0700, stan via users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:13:43 -0700Jonathan Ryshpan <
jonrysh(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> What is akonadi? What is baloo? Why does akonadi usually crash
> onsystem startup? Why does akonadi or maybe baloo sometimes use
> 100% ofcpu? Why does akonadi or baloo cause a great deal of disk
> activity?
There's this thing called web search now. I was curious, so I did
thesearch. Here are the results.
Thanks much for the pointer. I have been searching the web, probably
not diligently enough.Akonadi/Baloo is a powerful, complex, and poorly
documented system.
Akonadi is a storage service for personal information management
dataand metadata named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana.
It isone of the "pillars" behind the KDE SC 4 project, although it
isdesigned to be used in any desktop environment. It is extensible
andprovides concurrent read, write, and query...
https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
Baloo is the file indexing and file search framework for KDE
Plasma,with a focus on providing a very small memory footprint along
with withextremely fast searching.
https://community.kde.org/Baloo
If akonadi is crashing, it is probably misconfigured. Do you have
aconfiguration file in home that is old, that has come through
manyupgrades? Try moving it to a backup name, and letting akonadi
write anew configuration file on your next reboot.
A very useful pointer.
baloo is indexing, and storing, things so that lookups canbe very
fast when you are looking for something.
> Is there any way to run KDE alarm without akonadi?
Try to remove KDE alarm and see if it wants to remove akonadi. i.e.
ithas a dependency on it. It might be integrated. You could also
trydisabling akonadi and see if kde alarm still works. I suspect
theanswer is no, but I am just guessing.
I have taken the advice in
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/pim/kmail2/clean-start-after-a-failed-migr...
how to get akonadi to restore itself. My system now starts without the
errors described.
And after a modest amount of dinking around, several akonadictl stops
and starts, and some modifications to kalarm, I can now set alarms.