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> Also, one of the original selling points of systemd was "It will reduce boot times significantly!" It was not. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-

• rkeene2 10y ago
  http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html The original blog post introducing systemd on 30-APR-2010. The first points that it details regarding the thesis of systemd is that it is a good init system, and a good init system is fast, and that SysV init is not fast. The first time it begins talking about things a service management system should be interested in is about half-way through with "Keeping Track of Processes". It spends roughly the rest of the document on important service management things, but to dismiss the idea that "systemd is about speed" is a myth is too much. systemd IS about speed of booting -- during the development there were flame graphs showing how doing all this in parallel you could make the system boot really really fast. A lot of time was spent making the boot process with systemd minimal, or speedy. Personally I'd prefer a less speedy service management system that didn't open listening sockets for my daemons so that it could deal with starting services out-of-order... to make the boot occur in a more parallel fashion... to make the boot faster.
• wott 10y ago
  No, that's revisionism, Poettering rewriting history.