Not everything of systemd is in PID 1. And yes, what some people consider necessary and important or even essential features missing from sysvinit, others consi

Not everything of systemd is in PID 1. And yes, what some people consider necessary and important or even essential features missing from sysvinit, others consider bloat. Just to ensure we're all talking about the same thing, here's an overview of systemd's footprint: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependenci... From the article: "On most machines, systemd will bring from 236 KiB to 550 KiB of additional libraries to be loaded into memory. When recompiling systemd without its optional dependencies (e.g. for embedded systems), this shrinks to 368 KiB in the worst case. The RSS (Resident Set Size) of systemd is 1.8 MiB, whereas sysvinit uses 0.8 MiB — both measured on typical Debian wheezy installations."