The difference is night and day for me. I'll get an app open, maybe a music player, maybe a web browser. Open a 2nd app and the machine starts churning. If I don't head strait for a konsole window and kill Akondi processes I will wind up mashing the power button as it locks up so hard I can't even get to a console window to kill processes or SSH in. With Akondi shut down down I can can have 20 FF or Chrome tabs open, 4 or 5 Office Libre tabs open, Clemintine up and playing tunes, a few Dolphin windows and so on. If the machine gets slow I close a few things. Until I put KDE 5 on this machine the last time I had to reboot a Linux system by the power button was years ago.
I was a bit leery of leaving Baloo running. I had to take out Neopunk on KDE 4 systems because it was such an unnice resource hog. Not had those issues with Baloo and I'll agree spotlight can be nice. I also run a Mac. I use it mostly for recording, primarily because it's near impossible to find drivers for some of my break out boxes, effects pedals and such, as well as Sound One which I love as a DAW. Audacity is a good basic DAW but I sometimes need the more advanced features of Sound One and it doesn't cost an arm and leg like Cubase and a whole lot easier to use. It's interface is more like Audacity's and Cakewalk which is what I used back when I still had a windoze machine for recording. I also wind up doing Skype and a few other things that are much better supported on the Mac than Linux on the Mac. On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:10 PM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday August 31 2018 11:41:55 Draciron Smith wrote: > > >unusable. It is a resource MONSTER. I wouldn't even consider running it > >without at least 16 gigs of ram and the way I multitask I doubt that's > >enough. > > I've been using it on a 5 or 6 yo netbook with only 8Gb of RAM and using > ZFS (itself a memory eater). With a bit of tuning of the fetching intervals > it is slowish but perfectly usable without monopolising the machine. > That was PIM 4.13 though, to be honest. The current KMail depends on > QtWebEngine which is itself a resource monster, so it has to be worse. > > >I did leave Baloo running, it doesn't seem to kick off the server and all > > FWIW, the akonadi baloo agent serves to integrate PIM metadata with the > baloo-based desktop indexing feature which otherwise does not depend on > akonadi. The indexing itself can be a hog too. > > R. >
