[ale] for all you systemd haters...

[Jonathan Meek]

I am just going wander over here and drink my coffee because I match the
case that someone pointed out in the email chain about a user. As a user, I
have rarely messed around with checking into what's running in the init
scripts. One failed systemd unit script kept me from messing with it again.
I am pretty that was me not understanding what in the wide world of sports
was going on there.

The biggest issue I have seen with systemd has been its logging into binary
instead of text. It makes me a little nervous because most Linux distros
has some program to view text in the command line (vi, emacs, nano, cat)
while viewing the binaries could be a tricky affair.

Just my thoughts on the matter at hand. Back to my Puerto Rican coffee
sipping.

Jonathan

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 7:16 AM Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:00:16PM -0500, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> > Exactly when will that happen?
> >
> > My systems used to boot in 15-25 seconds, usually just under 20s.
> >
> > $ systemd-analyze
> > Startup finished in 26.383s (kernel) + 13.483s (userspace) = 39.866s
>
> If the kernel itself is taking more time to boot than the entire system
> used to in the past, it seems silly to blame systemd for that.
>
> (And wtf is going on to make the kernel take 26s to hand off to userspace?)
>
> Anectdotally, Fedora 24 on a high-end P700 workstation I have at the
> office booted noticably faster from spinning rust than CentOS6 did from
> an SSD in the same system, despite having more to start up.
>
> > On systems with static IPs, networking.service takes over 20 seconds!!!
> > Huh?
>
> You can drill down deeper into that to see where the time is actually
> spent.
>
> network.target on my main server took 22 seconds to start on its last
> boot.  It's also a fully static setup, but that time includes *every*
> network-facing service.  Mailman accounted for a ludicrous 10s of that.
>
>  - Solomon
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