Comment 40 for bug 578215

I've got this problem as well, w/KDE4.4.4 and OpenSUSE11.3/2GB RAM/Intel T1700.

Typically, it's associated with KMail, which will happily spend 15 minutes hammering the disk I/O and basically hanging every time it starts up. During that period you either have KMail pulling 25-30% CPU and a *lot* of disk activity, or else Virtuoso running up to 90~% CPU. Interestingly, it is NOT REPEAT NOT hitting the swap - during these events there is typically well over 1GB of RAM available.

This has recently started to be a problem - I don't know whether this is as a result of an update or whether there's some critical folder or mailbox size.

I take the point that you could turn off desktop search, but I don't *have* desktop search and haven't since KDE3.5.7 and good old kerry beagle. I'd like to have a desktop search application rather than KFind. Strigi is disabled through System Settings.

I am at a loss to see the purpose of the whole complex of Akonadi/Strigi/Nepomuk/Virtuoso. It just appears to be a selection of processes that burn enormous quantities of system resources and do nothing whatsoever of any use, except mangling my data now and again.