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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:53:20 +0100, Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 12 February 2010 01:52:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0100, Alan McKinnon |
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>> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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>> however |
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>> >> say is that my browser and my mail app, are pretty deft at realizing |
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>> >> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> was |
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>> > not |
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>> > prevalent. Make sure that the result is somewhat comparable to what |
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>> you |
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>> > 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 |
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>> IPC-type |
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>> > functionality they have and remove it. Rebuild everything. Note the |
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>> code |
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>> > sizes |
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>> > and other metrics of complexity. Note resource usage. |
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>> > |
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>> > Compare these two sets of numbers. Then run your new IPC-less machine. |
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>> > 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 |
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>> is |
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>> > going |
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>> > on even in minimal environments. |
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>> Well, I'll have to tell you, that I might just do that one of these |
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>> days, |
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>> because like you say. If nothing else I'll gain an understanding of it. |
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>> As you suggested in the last mail, I don't think I've considered all the |
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>> different uses of IPC. :-) |
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> A lot of that was tongue in cheek :-) |
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> If you do manage to pull off that monumental purge and get something that |
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> runs, you'll have enough information to build a PhD thesis around. |
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> OK, maybe not a PhD. maybe a Masters. |
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Hehe, it read :-) |
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I'll be sure to remember that when I have to write my masters, quite |
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possibly also about the same time I'll be done with the purge and getting |
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it working ;) |
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Zeerak |
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