it turns out that, on arm embedded systems at the very least, where context-switching is a little slower and booting off of microsd cards results in amplification of any performance-related issues associated with drive reads/writes when compared to an SSD or HDD, sysvinit easily outperforms systemd for boot times.
I *don't* have any microsd cards and my system isn't embedded, and booting has slowed down since systemd was added anyway. (I can't say it was caused by systemd as other things were updated a the same time.) I'm not convinced that there is any benefit from systemd to a single user on a single system. I *know* there are drawbacks.
My guess it that systemd benefits those administering multiple systems, but I don't do that, so it's only a guess. It sure hasn't improved anything on my systems, though I have
So you're blaming systemd for something you admit might not even be systemd's fault, and to such an extent you are saying it's worthless. That's not very logical... I'm not saying you're wrong, you just haven't demonstrated (even to yourself) what you're saying is true.
It is one of a very few things that might have caused the boot time slowdown. I'm not necessarily blaming it for that, but boot time sure didn't speed up. It became extremely difficult to access drives installed by other OS installations, and I am blaming it for that. (Yes, a hand configuration was able to fix the problem, but it's something I've had to do after each installation, and is quite annoying. But perhaps I should be blaming grub2.) The log files aren't accessible as text, and even the mainta
So it does on bog-standard noisy boxes. Despite the original primary piece of advertising for systemd.
On my bog-standard noisy box, systemd actually improves boot time. But those fifteen seconds once a week or less (since I sleep my desktop, and don't shut it down) are not worth the PITA factor.
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faster boot time as well (Score:5, Interesting)
it turns out that, on arm embedded systems at the very least, where context-switching is a little slower and booting off of microsd cards results in amplification of any performance-related issues associated with drive reads/writes when compared to an SSD or HDD, sysvinit easily outperforms systemd for boot times.
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I *don't* have any microsd cards and my system isn't embedded, and booting has slowed down since systemd was added anyway. (I can't say it was caused by systemd as other things were updated a the same time.) I'm not convinced that there is any benefit from systemd to a single user on a single system. I *know* there are drawbacks.
My guess it that systemd benefits those administering multiple systems, but I don't do that, so it's only a guess. It sure hasn't improved anything on my systems, though I have
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So you're blaming systemd for something you admit might not even be systemd's fault, and to such an extent you are saying it's worthless. That's not very logical... I'm not saying you're wrong, you just haven't demonstrated (even to yourself) what you're saying is true.
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It is one of a very few things that might have caused the boot time slowdown. I'm not necessarily blaming it for that, but boot time sure didn't speed up. It became extremely difficult to access drives installed by other OS installations, and I am blaming it for that. (Yes, a hand configuration was able to fix the problem, but it's something I've had to do after each installation, and is quite annoying. But perhaps I should be blaming grub2.) The log files aren't accessible as text, and even the mainta
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and yet that systemd crap is in yocto...reducing it's value each boot.
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it turns out that, on arm embedded systems [...], sysvinit easily outperforms systemd for boot times.
So it does on bog-standard noisy boxes. Despite the original primary piece of advertising for systemd.
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So it does on bog-standard noisy boxes. Despite the original primary piece of advertising for systemd.
On my bog-standard noisy box, systemd actually improves boot time. But those fifteen seconds once a week or less (since I sleep my desktop, and don't shut it down) are not worth the PITA factor.