Akonadi goes on a resource-rampage

[tuxerman]

I'd just upgraded (rather, fresh install) to Kubuntu 10.10 two months back. For the record, I'd also installed xfce4 package (not xubuntu-dekstop) a few days back.. For the past few days, every time I start my computer and log into the kde desktop, it got very sluggish, and froze with the system monitor widgets recording a ramp-like increase in RAM usage and CPU being constantly at 100%.
A glance at the system monitor showed akonadi-contacts to be the culprit, and I killed it. Everything returned to normal, but problem persisted with every login. I even tried disabling it from services. I also removed it from the packages but kde also got removed along with it, and I had to reinstall KDE from apt. But even after reinstalling kde the problem was back.

At wits end what to do. Please help!

PS: I dont use akonadi for anything so good riddance options also welcome

[tuxerman]

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[tuxerman]

It's fine folks, i just added a shell script with:

pkill akonadi

to my KDE startup

[Alejandro Nova]

Looks like the Contacts + Nepomuk + Akonadi mega bug fixed in KDE 4.6.1.

Load the Kubuntu Backports PPA and upgrade everything to KDE 4.6.1. Ensure yourself you have Akonadi 1.5.1. Shouldn't give you headaches. Instructions to do that are in http://www.kubuntu.org