reflum, On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 00:14 -0400, Jonathan Lane wrote: > I'm using a seven year old machine with a 2.0GHz Athlon XP and 512MB > RAM. I still like using full-featured web browsers (Iceweasel) and > watching videos with (s)mplayer. This means that every megabyte of > RAM counts, especially in kernel > space.
My system is not even 1/4 of yours. I never noticed the module because
of system resources used.
libdnet consumes about 24KB RAM on my system. I suspect this will be
swapped out if not used. It DOES NOT depend on any kernel module,
changed network configuration or something else. It does only depend on
standard c lib as loaded by (nearly) any process anyway.
Your request is like if I would file a bug report aginst IPv6 because I
have IPv6 stuff loaded but not used. I suspect this does wast much more
system resources (yes, at least one time I noticed the resources used by
that).
> Imagine my shock and dismay when installing a simple ncurses audio
> player altered my MAC address and inserted a kernel module. That
> module, by the way, has been ORPHANED for a year.
This is not done by libroar nor libdnet. dnet-common may do this
depending on system configuration. Beside the normal 'not configured'
state the package asks explecitly if it should configure the interface.
If you have a (very old) package please upgrade. Please do not report
bug reports for stuff that has been fixed long ago.
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Please report bug reports aginst the corresponding package, not against
package which *may* use the corresponding package *indirectly*.
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Reporting aginst libroar is like reporting ifupdown bugs aginst
iceweasel.
> Debian's Alpha port has been dropped.
/me is very unsure what this has to do with this report.
> DECNet is a very, very minor use case. The odds of anybody trying to
> *stream audio* over DECnet instead of IPv4 or IPv6 is astronomically
> small. I doubt anyone
> but the libroar developers themselves even care about that particular
> usage. Please get this junk out of the Debian package.
DECnet is _much_ better for streaming stuff (for example because of very
much lower jitter). Because of this supporting this is important. I know
serveral users of it which aren't anything else than just plain users.
--
Philipp.
(Rah of PH2)
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