[Bug 39809] adept is incredibly bloaty

[Andreas Mohr]

Public bug reported:

Affects: ept adept (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Hello,

the subject line could be considered to be rather inflammatory, but this is somewhat intentional given that a simply checkmark toggle (install/don't install application) in adept takes longer than 5 seconds (!) on a P3/450 with 256MB.
This is, ahem, friggin' insane. Please stop this bloat.
Startup of adept and general appearance is similarly bloaty.

This is on a very, very optimized setup (hdparm etc.) with an especially
fast -ck kernel (swap prefetching, better scheduler, ...), so it's
doubly painful to have adept still be that slow.

Its memory requirements are also far from modest:

# ps aux|grep adept
yun       4661  1.9  4.7  29844 12288 ?        S    22:14   0:39 adept_notifier
root      7040 18.8 25.0  88612 64280 ?        S    22:28   3:45 adept_installer -icon adept_installer -miniicon adept_installer -caption Add/Remove Programs

I'd suggest treating this with a fair dose of oprofile, gprof and/or
kcachegrind to stop the worst excesses.

Despite all this criticism I want to add that I'm very happy that
there's finally a rather simple program installer available that's
usable by mere lazy mortals, too -- keep up this great work!

Thanks,

Andreas Mohr
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adept is incredibly bloaty
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39809