On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:53:20 +0100, Alan McKinnon
<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hehe, it read :-)
I'll be sure to remember that when I have to write my masters, quite
possibly also about the same time I'll be done with the purge and getting
it working ;)
--
Zeerak
