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