starting Fedora Server SIG
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 14 06:30:24 UTC 2008
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> You might notice that all of the above are features that are good for
>> developers working on enhancing other software and good for desktop users
>> but not so much features that a sysadmin worried only about keeping systems
>> running and using as few resources as possible will care about.
>
> If any part of the core freedesktop.org stack uses an unreasonable
> amount of memory, please file a bug and we will fix it.
It uses ANY memory. That's more than is reasonable considering that the
former solution (ifconfig) uses none.
Colin, let me very clear, I think what NM does for the desktop is very
good, indeed. I like not having to fiddle around to make WEP stuff work
using iwconfig anymore. I appreciate what's been achieved.
That doesn't make it a more useful thing on a server.
-sv
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