[Mageia-dev] Frequent freezes in M2

Thu Jan 3 13:56:47 CET 2013

Le jeudi 3 janvier 2013 13:48:30 Pierre Jarillon a écrit :
+> Le mercredi 2 janvier 2013 12:55:06, Anne Wilson a écrit :
+> > This last couple of days I've had frequent total freezes of my M2
+> > system.  If I can get to the System Activity monitor in time I can
+> > kill akonadi_nepomuktag_resource and I can work again - if I'm too
+> > late I have to hard reset.
+> > 
+> > There must be some way to stop this.  It appears to use increasing
+> > amounts of CPU (and memory?) until it reaches a critical level.  What
+> > could have changed in the last few days to be causing this?
+> 
+> I agree. Akonadi_nepomuk is a monster and is not suitable with an old PC or
+> a laptop running on battery.
+> It is a kind of "enhancement" which increases the complexity, make the
+> system very difficult to understand and to repair in case of troubles. It
+> gives a feeling of an unreliable complicated system.
+> 
+> This must be an optional software, it can be installed but not activated by
+> default.
+Which is already the case in mageia 2 for the live cd at least.
+However nepomuk is more & more intricated in KDE so we'll probably won't be 
+able to do it for mga4 for sure & eventually mga3.
+The good news is that nepomuk received an hudge work (which is going to land 
+with kde 4.10 rc2 ).
+
+Regards,
+
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