On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:41 AM, David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are running into the same problem here. Why is it a problem? Not the > disk space taken up by mysqld or the little bit of cpu time it > takes. But the diskspace on the user's home directories. We have a > shared home disk here for > 200 people, each has disk quota of 0.5 - 1 GB > and akonadi's database for some users seems to be taking as much as 140 MB > And that is even without them being actively using it, it's probably > just an existing addressbook getting converted to mysql database or so. > I have no idea how big those databases will grow over time. > > So a way to disable akonadi would be very much appreciated. Well, other > than removing the binary, or chmod 000 ~/local/share/akonadi which seems > to be doing the trick nicely (though with some startup errors). > At least, I haven't been able to find any settings regarding akonadi in > the KDE settings, autostart programs, etc. Any pointers would be > appreciated. > > In another department, we use thin clients, getting their X services > from a central RHEL server. I'm also holding my breath for waht it will > do if 50 users all have theirr private mysqld running on that one > server. Luckily KDE 4.2 is not in Redhat Enterprise yet, but that will > just be a matter of time. > > In short, ideas that may look nice for a single user on a single > computer, don't scale too well to larger environments. > It would be great if such additional features would be optional. > > David Jansen Since you already have a centralized system, is not feasible to just have akonadi point to a central database? It seems like what it was designed for, but I don't know, I am just asking. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines