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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:53 +0200 |
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Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: |
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> > Alan McKinnon writes: |
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> > > On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: |
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> > > > On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > > > > And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either. |
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> > > > > All the services that need to talk to each other already have |
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> > > > > working communication paths. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus |
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> > > > might be required on my servers in the future, if systemd |
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> > > > becomes popular with distros. |
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> > > |
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> > > What's your objection to dbus? It gives you a standard message |
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> > > bus, is small, light, consumes minimal resources and provides a |
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> > > nice standard way to do IPC. Probably easier than reinventing the |
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> > > wheel with named pipes and other bits over and over. |
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> > |
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> > Except for me. dbus-daemon often uses 10-20% of my CPU according to |
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> > top. |
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> Mine idles most of the time, no CPU is used. My computer is running |
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> for ~6h now, dbus-daemon used less than 1.5s CPU time. |
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> > And |
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> > this morning, it was using about 750M of memory. Which is less than |
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> > kwin's and Kontact's usage, but still. |
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> Strange. Mine uses only ~20MB. |
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> > But I think the problem is on my side, I run KDE4 with only 8G of |
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> > memory, no wonder I need 1.7G of swap right now. |
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> > </rant> |
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> I have only 4GB of memory, run kde4, swap is not used at all most of |
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> the time. There are still ~512MB free with ~1,3GB cached currently. |
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> I do have programs running :) firefox with some tabs, kdevelop with a |
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> project (~100.000 LOC), kmail, LibreOffice and 3 konsoles, each with |
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> some tabs open. I know, I am of no help at all, but I really wonder, |
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> why your numbers differ so significantly from mine. |
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He probably has the same problem as I - something badly wrong in the |
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roll-your-own config. |
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I had a 4G Dell laptop where KDE would start and instantly consume at |
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least 1.5G just for it's various bits. Akonadi, Nepomuk, Virtuoso were |
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the usual culprits. Oddly, dbus would often rise to 700M (!). And |
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forget about actually emerging something - the first sniff that gcc was |
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running and the machine would thrash like mad and 4G swap would fill up |
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in no time at all. Less sweap wasn't an option - the battery is dud so |
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I needed hibernate. |
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Sadly (or not, depending on your viewpoint), that machine died on |
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Monday morning - suspect graphics card. I can't complain - it ran flat |
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out 24/7/365 and I treated it like one of the servers that I could |
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carry around. So I can't even troubleshoot what I configured how to |
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make performance behave like it did. |
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Happily, there was a nice pretty lady from Samsung in the office 3 |
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months ago wanting to sell the 900X Macbook Air knock-off into the |
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company. The IT manager didn't know what to do with the demo she left |
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behind so I knicked it for myself (sans paperwork of course. Makes it |
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easier to prolong how long it takes to test properly) and it's running |
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Ubuntu. Memory issues are a thing of the past and everything behaves |
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just like it should. Even <gasp> flash. |
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-- |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |