On Friday 12 February 2010 01:52:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0100, Alan McKinnon > > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Well, I'll have to tell you, that I might just do that one of these days, > because like you say. If nothing else I'll gain an understanding of it. > As you suggested in the last mail, I don't think I've considered all the > different uses of IPC. :-)
A lot of that was tongue in cheek :-) If you do manage to pull off that monumental purge and get something that runs, you'll have enough information to build a PhD thesis around. OK, maybe not a PhD. maybe a Masters. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
