amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

[Derek Broughton]

Brian McKee wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Ryan Toler <jester465 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Note that running mysql just to speed up one program might slowdown
>> the rest of the system. I'm not sure but the default install starts at
>> least 5 but may be up to 10 processes each eating up ram and CPU
>> Cycles. This might not be a problem for your machine but you should
>> weigh the pros and cons of a faster music player or faster system as a
>> whole.
> 
> I've found mysql to be pretty good at doing nothing when it's doing
> nothing...  I doubt the effect is very noticeable on system
> performance as a whole, execpt when actively used for more complicated
> things like searches.  It's got to be heavier than SQLite, but I
> haven't noticed it.

I try to avoid MySQL simply because I'm already running too many rDBs (most
of my current work is PostGres, and I still need to occasionally start up
Oracle - and _that's_ a resource hog), but it's installed because Amarok's
dependencies are imo broken, and every now & then I see it's running and I
have no indication that it's actually consuming resources.
-- 
derek