amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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.

Oops.  That got me looking a little more carefully.  Amarok and others only
depend on libmysqlclient15off, which is probably little more than a stub. 
I was just trying to remove too much from my system.  I have been able to
remove both the server and mysql-client.
-- 
derek