Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly:
> > On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
[...]
> > > And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either.
> > > All the services that need to talk to each other already have
> > > working communication paths.
> >
> > Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus
> > might be required on my servers in the future, if systemd becomes
> > popular with distros.
>
> What's your objection to dbus? It gives you a standard message bus, is
> small, light, consumes minimal resources and provides a nice standard
> way to do IPC. Probably easier than reinventing the wheel with named
> pipes and other bits over and over.
Except for me. dbus-daemon often uses 10-20% of my CPU according to top. And
this morning, it was using about 750M of memory. Which is less than kwin's
and Kontact's usage, but still.
But I think the problem is on my side, I run KDE4 with only 8G of memory, no
wonder I need 1.7G of swap right now.
</rant>
Wonko
