On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Michael Stone <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you please suggest some links to your favorite writeups of those > reasons? The PolicyKit docs have some: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/intro-define-problem.html > Also, do you have data on what effect (if any) this trend has > on steady-state system memory consumption? That's a good question - I think with system activation by default activated mechanisms will stay around, though obviously the kernel can page them out. The clock applet mechanism (http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-panel/trunk/applets/clock/gnome-clock-applet-mechanism.c) has its own 30-second timeout but it's kind of a hack. It's something we should look at addressing - unfortunately just calling exit() after 30 seconds I believe creates race conditions, and to fix it correctly will need special DBus support. There was a thread a while ago about this on the DBus list IIRC. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
