[openi18n-im:01195] Re: Feature discussion heat starting from..

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:38:11 +1000
From: Leon Ho <[email protected]>:
> > I'm also interested in non-root iiim server in your list.
> > 

My intension is to provide a private iiim server, not shared
with other users, which is required by some secure system.  The
private iiim server also reduce the risk of single point of
failure, which the current implementation suffers.

> 
> Let me tell you some people suggestion on it and see if it is possible
> or not:
> 
> Different type of desktop users usually want to enable (start) iiim
> server when they needed. Currently we are starting this in boot time,
> and it costs around 40MB of memory (roughly).
> 
> Typical desktop user only have 256-512MB RAM. So definitely we don't
> want to run the server when no user(s) is using input.
> 
> So if running in any user is possible, then it should resolve this
> problem by delay to run before it is needed, specially for that
> configuration.
> 
> Other server configuration etc can run server at startup at normal.

All seem reasonable and implementable.

If possible, please post how implementation will be.  I will
write and post my proposal next week.

Regards,
-- 
kasha