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On Friday 12 February 2010 01:10:58 Zeerak Waseem wrote: |
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> But honestly, I don't have a solution to the problem, what I can however |
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> say is that my browser and my mail app, are pretty deft at realizing that |
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> their attempts to access a server, are in vain, without any network |
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> manager to tell them that they're offline. If there is any inter-app |
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> communication going on, it's not anything I know enough about to give a |
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> qualified guess about. |
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So do this then: |
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Build a desktop from old ebuilds and tarballs from a time when dbus was not |
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prevalent. Make sure that the result is somewhat comparable to what you like |
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to have now. Note the code sizes and other metrics of complexity. Note |
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resource usage. |
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Then examine the code for all the major apps you have, find the IPC-type |
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functionality they have and remove it. Rebuild everything. Note the code sizes |
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and other metrics of complexity. Note resource usage. |
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Compare these two sets of numbers. Then run your new IPC-less machine. Let us |
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know how that works out for you. |
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At the very least you will gain an understanding of just how much IPC is going |
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on even in minimal environments. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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