Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> writes:
> On 29/07/2026 16:04, John Ames wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:25:18 -0400
>> Chris Ahlstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> And systemd seems to be to be a good thing. It sure minimizes boot
>>> times.
>> Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
>> generally be measured in months or years, and off an SSD even my pokey
>> little Eee 904 (running Devuan with sysvinit) goes from zero to display
>> manager in less than a minute.
>> 
> Indeed. Its suppose to make Big Tin happy. but for a typical desktop
> not that much can be paralleled anyway.
>
> My PI 4B still scrolls up a few seconds of gobbledygook every time it
> boots...

I care about reboot times when doing reboot-heavy debugging, but
thankfully that is a fairly infrequent exercise. Recently the biggest
improvement to startup time was migrating from ifupdown to Network
Manager, which turned out to be both faster and more reliable. There’s
still a few seconds of unexplained delay during network bringup on the
house server (which has the most complex networking of anything under my
control) but that is at least now concurrent with other startup
processing rather than blocking the whole system for a minute like
ifupdown did.

What I get out of systemd is not really connected to reboot performance,
but rather more straightforward and uniform service configuration and
management, with a lot of security and resource control features that in
principle could be implemented in other ways but in practice, aren’t.

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