'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 23/08/11 14:37 did gyre and gimble: > Thierry Vignaud skrev 23.8.2011 16:28: >> On 23 August 2011 13:16, Guillaume Rousse<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> The things that these individual tools implement are a few relatively >>>> simply commands to the kernel and it doesn't make sense to do all this >>>> in shell. It makes much more sense to do all these jobs in efficient >>>> code that runs *quickly* without forking hundreds of times. The code is >>>> still perfectly visible and easily hackable, but now things are much >>>> more robust and efficient. >>> >>> Booting faster makes sense on desktops, not on servers. My general >>> impression in this new trend (systemd, networkmanager, etc...) is the >>> need >>> to compete with proprietary system (macos, windows) on end-user >>> segment, at >>> the cost of genericity and simplicity. >> >> Indeed. >> What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take >> *minutes* to >> setup the machine is worthless. > > Heh, > > I remember a SGI guy on LKML a while back complaining that it took > ~2 hours to boot one of their _big_ servers (4096 cpus, a few TB RAM). > > After a patch that fixed the "bug", it brought the boot time down to 30 > minutes and he was happy again :)
Wowsers. I bet systemd could get that down to like 29 minutes and 30 seconds :p Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
