Calendar Reminders - high RAM consuming process

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Hi,
I’ve been using this distribution for some months now, running on a (not very powerful) 82YU Lenovo V15 G4 AMN. At startup i notice that i have a “Calendar Reminders” process that consumes a lot of ram (around 1 Gb). I was wondering if there was a way to optimize this usage, or to remove this process permanently, since i never encounter any problem once i disable it.

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Hi @ricvigi , and welcome!

From https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/vp4bam/why_is_calendar_reminders_using_270_mb_or_ram_on/ :

Seems like the Akonadi framework is responsible for the “Calendar reminders” taking up memory. As soon as I executed akonadictl stop as user, the issue was resolved.

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hey @Mirdarthos, thanks for your reply!
I remember reading that post a while ago, the problem is that running that command kills that process just for the current session, meaning if i reboot and then check the system monitor, the process is still present. I suppose it’s something related to the akonadi framework, but i wonder if there is a more drastic solution? I understand it’s needed for some applications to run correctly, but the size of it is just unbearable (i’m running on 8gb RAM)

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Well, since you specifically mentioned the calendar, you could always uninstall that:

pamac remove akonadi-calendar

Or even the complete akonadi:

pamac remove akonadi

By default, akonadi uses Mariadb, so best would be then to remove that as well:

pamac remove mariadb

Or, if you don’t want to remove it completely, you can just disable it:

systemctl disable mysqld.service

That’s all I can offer.

Hope this helps!

Note:

I have no idea if this’ll break anything or not, so don’t hold me responsible if it does.

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As has been mentioned elsewhere … its likely the combination of akonadi+mariadb.

I personally find akonadi offensive in general.

But you can choose to use SQLite instead.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Akonadi

(I dont have mariadb or mysql installed)

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What do you mean by offensive? Personally i find it a very “uncomfortable” process… It is a true RAM sucker, and i cannot find any difference into using it or not, but i’m forced to kill it every once in a while because it’s a true RAM eater.

I’m hesitating into removing it because i am not completely sure that it won’t cause any issues with my system.

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Both akonadi and pim are whole ‘suites’ of software I dont find very useful, but can be a source of consternation.

You might find out whats actually requiring it.

pactree -r  akonadi

If you ‘need’ it for something … then you still are not required to use mariadb … I only have/use sqlite.
The link above has some methods for using it instead. See that whole section up to and including
KDE - ArchWiki

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