Speeding up KDE

[Georgetoon]

Overall, so far, the system has improved just by going to OpenBox.  Again, I'm going to close down pager and virtual desktops.  Why have all that running in the background when i'm not using it?

[DeBaas]

Why have all that running in the background when i'm not using it?

Because it can
And it's Linux, you are free to modify, change,  add or delete everything you wish/can.

 

[menotu]

The following link about KDE 4.10 looks interesting as it seems show some speed benefits, especially being able to select which file types are indexed in the new Indexing Tab within Nepomuk Server Configuration (Desktop Search)

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,112937.msg963937.html#msg963937



and of course Nepomuk can be disabled altogether from



The  following link mentions Nepomuk without Strigi

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,110075.msg943991.html#msg943991

http://nepomuk.kde.org/aggregator/sources/5

[horusfalcon]

To speed up KDE, you need to stop nepomuk and akonadi. I don't remember exactly how I did this, but I believe this was discussed in posts on the forum. Also, if that is not enough, I use task-lxde over a kde install so that I have konqueror, kwrite, k3b, and other kde goodies.

Galen

Yeah.  A big ol' +1 for this - I use the same setup and it runs very nicely on my old D620.

Later On,
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[ternor]

Nepomuk is not enabled here.  How does one disable Akonadi and what are the negative effects?  I no longer use kalarm either.

BTW, I have NOT made the changes suggested in the article to which I referred.  Too cautious for that.

This gives me an opportunity to invite comments on an article I read lately.  I was going to experiment with another user account but I can't log into that account in the normal way.

The article is Improve KDE Performance: Disable Nepomuk and Akonadi.

These are the suggestions made:
....

Of course you've just destroyed your Kalarm alerts by doing this, so you don't know where you're going, but you are making damned good time. 

[YouCanToo]

Nepomuk is not enabled here.  How does one disable Akonadi and what are the negative effects?  I no longer use kalarm either.

BTW, I have NOT made the changes suggested in the article to which I referred.  Too cautious for that.

This gives me an opportunity to invite comments on an article I read lately.  I was going to experiment with another user account but I can't log into that account in the normal way.

The article is Improve KDE Performance: Disable Nepomuk and Akonadi.

These are the suggestions made:
....

Of course you've just destroyed your Kalarm alerts by doing this, so you don't know where you're going, but you are making damned good time. 

To disable the Akonadi subsystem, first, shut down the running Akonadi server from the control module or the command line:

akonadictl stop

Now, edit the file ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc and change StartServer from true to false:

StartServer=false

The Akonadi server should no longer launch automatically on login.