Comment 4 for bug 772265

I am pretty sure the datasources are stored in a pickle
maybe we need to open a bug to move the pickled stuff into json file.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Markus Korn <email address hidden> wrote:

> The zombie part of this issue should be already fixed in lp:zeitgeist by
> using glib.spawn_async() instead of subprocess.Popen() (LP: #739780)
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> Title:
> The datahub starts zeitgeist-daemon on startup
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Client Library:
> New
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
> New
> Status in Zeitgeist Datahub:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> We have been advising distros put zeitgeist-datahub into the autostart
> section for the sessions. This is better in theory because this way we
> only start a native daemon on login and can defer the launching of the
> heavier Python process zeitgeist-daemon.
>
> Unfortunately zeitgeist-datahub does DBus activation of the zeitgeist-
> daemon on startup so we really don't get the benefits we wanted.
> Bootcharts from Ubuntu 11.04 indicates that ZG eats about 1s on the
> login time and I don't think that is acceptable for ZG in the longer
> run. That is - no catastrophe for 11.04, but we should fix this.
>
> (a related issue seems to be that the dbus activated zeitgeist-daemon
> seems to launch another datahub instance that then immediately becomes
> a zombie... ? :-/)
>