On Monday 22 November 2004 11:04, Frank Reifenstahl wrote: > > > for a few weeks theres a greedy process "korgac" which after running > > > KDE for about a week occupies 1 GB of memory. Anybody out there to tell > > > me how to handle that problem? > > > > korgac is the "alarm daemon" for korganizer alarms, which pops up the > > notification window. > > I also have this problem once in a while. > > I think there are some things you can try (although they are all not > > nice): > > > > 1) If you don't need alarms for your events, you can turn off korgac > > completely. (kcontrol/KDE Components/Service manager/Alarm Daemon) > > Did so, but after pressing "STOP" kcontrol signals "not running", but > korgac doesn't care. Do i have to reboot? ;) You're not running on MS ... ;-) I think I'm mixing things up (korgac and kalarmd ...) Try right click on the systray icon and select "quit". > > 2) you could simply stop and restart korgac from time to time > > O.k. - how? "killall orgac" and then "korgac --miniicon korganizer"? Stop it with right click on systray icon. I think the simplest way to start it again is to close korganizer and restart it. korgac is started by korganizer. Well, this is kind of MS ... > > 3) you can probably try to use a different type of resource to store your > > events into (e.g. localdir resource - which has some bad performance > > issues up to KDE-3.3). > > How to? In korganizer/Settings you find "Show Resourcebuttons". Then on the lower leftside you see a list of resources used (but beware - I'm using CVS HEAD, it might be different in KDE-3.3). Then use the "Add.." button. This is also possible from within kcontrol/KDE Components/KDE Resource Configuration > A cute korgac that doesn't bloat itself would be more enjoyable. Absolutely, but ... -- Best regards/SchÃne GrÃÃe Martin registered as user #332716 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Some operating systems are called 'user friendly', Linux however is 'expert friendly'. -- Best regards/SchÃne GrÃÃe Martin () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Some operating systems are called 'user friendly', Linux however is 'expert friendly'. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.