On 2013-03-27 4:41 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/27/2013 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-03-27, Kevin Chadwick<ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
The real drive behind systemd is enterprise cloud type computing for
Red Hat. The rest is snake oil and much of the features already exist
without systemd. With more snake oil of promises of faster boot up on a
portion of the code which is already fast and gains you maybe two
seconds.
I'm not trying to fan the flames: I'm genuinely confused...
I just don't get the whole "parallel startup for faster boot thing".
Most of my machines just don't boot up often enough for a few seconds
or even tens of seconds to matter at all.
With cloud-based computing, you don't have a bunch of servers running,
waiting to received requests.
Instead, you have is a bunch of idle hardware, waiting to have pre-built
system images spun up on them on-demand.
The faster those pre-built images can spin up, the faster they can serve
requests.
Ok, well, that actually makes perfect sense (and answers my question
about why Redhat is interested in and pushing it).
