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Disable Search Indexing in options. It uses a buggy piece of garbage called Akonadi in the background and was causing one core of my CPU to stay at 100% for no reason.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Akonadi is a pig. Nearly 20 processes, each one using 20-150MB resident set (20-40MB unique set), multiplied by the number of users logged in. And then there's the other stuff it keeps resident, like mysqld.

That might be okay if I was getting something important from it, but I'm not. It provides zero value to me. It's just wasting RAM that I would rather use for other things.

Unfortunately, it's part of the Plasma dependency chain on my distro, so removing it would be problematic. When I find the time, I may build a custom metapackage to allow me to get rid of it without taking most of KDE with it.