Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:42 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 18:01, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Maybe. It's not up to a piece of software to decide. In Unix, admins should have power to decide, not programs. Programs provide the means, they don't dictate

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely (unlike GNOME 3 / Unity). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Green (林安廸)
On 06/14/2011 11:17 AM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi - Dude, systemd requires the functionality of the three modules it loads explicitly. systemd requires ipv6. And you pitch systemd to be used by embedded devices. Do you really think all embedded devices will be happy

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 22:46, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Slide 6: We can now boot a system shell-free IOW: shell is bad, my new shiny toy is good. Oh god. If you had listened you'd have understood that my aim is

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:31 +0100, Andy Green (林安廸) wrote: Dude, systemd requires the functionality of the three modules it loads explicitly. systemd requires ipv6. And you pitch systemd to be used by embedded devices. Do you really think all embedded devices will be happy with

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/14/2011 04:13 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: I talk to a lot of embedded people. Tiny machines are not going to disappear anytime soon - they just go into smaller and smaller gadgets. For example, there are still a noticeable segment of NOMMU CPUs, meaning if you really target embedded, you

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.06.11 12:17, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:42 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 18:01, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Maybe. It's not up to a piece of software to decide. In Unix, admins should have power to

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lucas
Is not it easy to remove everything from: default.target basic.target graphical.target ... and then add whatever we want to start or to execute or mount? I do not really care what systemd CAN do, but really care what it is doing on my system. So, may be some cleaning will be the wise solution.

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Green (林安廸)
On 06/14/2011 11:43 AM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: For what's left, eg ARM9+ that you can run normal Linux and Fedora on, ipv6 is going to be workable if the memory allows. Looking a year or two ahead, where Embedded will extend to Cortex A15 quad core, and IPv6 will

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.06.11 12:36, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 22:46, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Slide 6: We can now boot a system shell-free IOW: shell is bad, my new shiny toy

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.06.11 07:14, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:53 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble. Well, but it has been used in the past, and as definitely something we should support in one way or another. Never said we shouldn't allow it to change,

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 13:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 14.06.11 12:36, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 22:46, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Slide 6: We can now

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:53 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: daemontools can be set up in a way than most init scripts are no longer necessary. It also achieves parallelized start. This is bogus. Amazingly deep argument. Can you do better than this? Hmm? systemd is an init system, so

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: (anything they could do in shell scripts, but not they can't). This will feel good, right? You will be such an important guy! I think most lurkers have understood you seem to have some personal issues with Lennart. Please still

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.06.11 07:25, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time ? The user might want to change it? Does setting it at boot time prevent you from changing it later ? No, systemd will initialize it at boot and is happy

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2011 04:00 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 18:18, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:17 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote:

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely (unlike GNOME 3 / Unity). And you can add some interesting tools around xfce which enhance,imo, its operation. -sv -- devel mailing list

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:08 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 14.06.11 07:25, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time ? The user might want to change it? Does setting it at boot time prevent you from

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I think the console-kit-daemon service can be disabled, but xinit prefixes xsession with ck-xinit-session which seems to start the daemon on demand. It would be nice if xinit could be configured to not use it. ConsoleKit is not optional (at least in Fedora 7 to 15).

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 06/14/2011 06:36 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: You go quite farther than that. We can now boot a system shell-free. *Shell-free*. You are not saying driving boot process by shell scripts is slow because ... ... ... (an argument I would agree with), you are aiming at *eliminating* shell

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:36:25PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I think the console-kit-daemon service can be disabled, but xinit prefixes xsession with ck-xinit-session which seems to start the daemon on demand. It would be nice if xinit could be configured to not

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2011 16:36, schrieb Kevin Kofler: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I think the console-kit-daemon service can be disabled, but xinit prefixes xsession with ck-xinit-session which seems to start the daemon on demand. It would be nice if xinit could be configured to not use it. ConsoleKit

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/14/2011 07:31 AM, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely (unlike GNOME 3 / Unity). And you can add some interesting tools around xfce which enhance,imo, its operation. Does it

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/14/2011 11:24 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/14/2011 12:27 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 06/14/2011 07:31 AM, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely (unlike GNOME 3 / Unity).

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :) = vnc

2011-06-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/14/2011 02:32 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 06/14/2011 11:24 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Its worked super well for me (though less well with GNOME3's effects etc)... Can you point me to what you mean by the usual info into xorg.conf? to be clear, I don't want to run *my* session

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) said: In this case you are not better/worse than before, once the network will come up you'll add a script to change the hostname. Setting it earlier in systemd makes no difference. You continue to avoid answering my question: WHY systemd, a service

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/14/2011 12:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:27:33AM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 06/14/2011 07:31 AM, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I've installed XFCE. It was easy to install, and it works sanely

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: Its worked super well for me (though less well with GNOME3's effects etc)... Can you point me to what you mean by the usual info into xorg.conf?  to be clear, I don't want to run *my* session over VNC. I want to be

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/14/2011 01:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Nathanael D. Nobletnathan...@gnat.ca wrote: Its worked super well for me (though less well with GNOME3's effects etc)... Can you point me to what you mean by the usual info into xorg.conf? to be clear, I don't

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :) = vnc

2011-06-14 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/14/2011 12:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I assume its either local intranet - or you've ssh tunneled port 5900 to be visible on your client machine where you're running vncviewer if your doing this over the internet. Thanks, that's great. Yeah this is all VPN'd access so secured via

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take?over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Boeckel
Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: Its worked super well for me (though less well with GNOME3's effects etc)... Can you point me to what you mean by the usual info into xorg.conf? to be clear, I don't want to run *my* session over VNC. I want to be able to connect to a remote

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:21 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:08 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 14.06.11 07:25, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time ? The user might want to change

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 10.06.11 15:07, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever played with. Granted, systemd does a bit more that typical init, but I think using *eleven plus megabytes* of malloced space is a bit

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 10.06.11 18:58, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:11 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 06/10/2011 03:59 PM, Steve Clark wrote: On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: systemd does not take the system down when it crashes. It catches the

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Denys Vlasenko
Hi Lennart, On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:15 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 10.06.11 15:07, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: I understand your desire to replace everything by systemd. I have no such desire. What is this then? int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { ...

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: plymouth_running()? Plymouth? Systemd knows about plymouth? Why? Because we need to constantly send updates to it. It's a trivial socket operation. It's a trivial thing and spawning a separate process to send

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 17:29 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 15:27, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: kmod_setup(); === ??? We load a couple of kernel modules which systemd needs, and are sometimes compiled as module only and which cannot be

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 06:01:22PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 17:29 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: We load a couple of kernel modules which systemd needs, and are sometimes compiled as module only and which cannot be autoloaded for a reason or another. This is

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.orgwrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 06:01:22PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 17:29 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: We load a couple of kernel modules which systemd needs, and are sometimes compiled as

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:13:39PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: The point of providing a platform is that developers can make certain assumptions about available functionality. It's no longer reasonable

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: ~11MB equals ~8 cents of RAM ... so meh. Are you volunteering to buy more RAM for every Fedora user? ;) Maybe if you send me the money first ;) (Sorry for private spam, hit wrong button) -- devel mailing list

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a separate binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname is always initialised

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a separate binary is just absurd. This way we

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 19:02 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the most trivial system calls known to men and doing

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:33:19AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Uh, and even much healthier than Upstart, which you seem to be a big fan of. Ohloh lists 3 patch authors. (But I figure that is out-of-date, it cannot be that low) I'm guessing its just ohloh having as much trouble operating

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 22:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Slide 14: systemd is an Init System systemd is a Platform systemd is a platform? Really? What next? systemd is an Aircraft Carrier? More to the point: Lennart can call his program whatever he wants, even Nuclear Submarine. The

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Karl Misselt
On 06/13/2011 02:10 PM, seth vidal wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 22:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Slide 14: systemd is an Init System systemd is a Platform systemd is a platform? Really? What next? systemd is an Aircraft Carrier? More to the point: Lennart can call his program whatever he

GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Henrik Wejdmark
Coming out of pure lurk mode - I think Seth's observations here are true for a many of the things that have gone on in Fedora recently (at the risk of opening wounds... eg. gnome3). Your options are: 1) Complain 2) Get involved in the development to the point where you are one of

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Karl Misselt wrote: Coming out of pure lurk mode - I think Seth's observations here are true for a many of the things that have gone on in Fedora recently (at the risk of opening wounds... eg. gnome3). If GNOME 3 is your problem, try KDE Plasma or Xfce. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-13 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 22:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:30 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time? The problem with having specific hostname I had is when I boot many dozens of diskless machines off the

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-12 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: for decades. Fedora 14's init system isn't that different to the first version of RHL (4.0) I started using back in 96. This is somewhat misleading.  

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-12 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:19:03AM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: for decades. Fedora 14's init system isn't that different to the first version of RHL

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-12 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:19:03AM +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: for decades. Fedora

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-12 Thread Michal Schmidt
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:42:11 +0200 Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:36 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: Why does systemd link against libpam? systemd does logins now, not /bin/login or gdm or ...? to implement PAMName= (man systemd.exec) I don't see any users of this

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11 Jun 2011 03:35, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/11/2011 05:20 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Lets be blunt here - he pushed very very very hard on these very lists to get systemd in - now its in F15 and there are problems - so no punting please. Upstream and fedora are

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-11 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever played with. Granted, systemd does a bit more that typical init, but I think using *eleven plus megabytes* of malloced space is a bit

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever played with. Granted, systemd does a bit more that typical

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.comwrote: On 06/10/2011 03:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: what would be really nice is to redirect systemd discussions to its upstream mailing list. Fedora devel is hardly the best place for it. Rahul Beg to differ -

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: for decades. Fedora 14's init system isn't that different to the first version of RHL (4.0) I started using back in 96. This is somewhat misleading. There have been many rewrites of the init system in the past decade. In

systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Denys Vlasenko
Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever played with. Granted, systemd does a bit more that typical init, but I think using *eleven plus megabytes* of malloced space is a bit much. systemctl --all shows 258 units total on my machine, thus systemd uses

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 06/10/2011 03:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: I understand your desire to replace everything by systemd. I really do. syslogd, klogd, mount, fsck, and a dozen other things I forget or don't know. You're exaggerating. Why does systemd link against libpam? systemd does logins now, not

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 06/10/2011 03:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: I understand your desire to replace everything by systemd. I really do. syslogd, klogd, mount, fsck, and a dozen other things I forget or don't know. You're exaggerating. Why does systemd link against

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/10/2011 09:07 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever played with. Granted, systemd does a bit more that typical init, but I think using *eleven plus megabytes* of malloced space is a bit much. systemctl --all shows

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 06/10/2011 03:59 PM, Steve Clark wrote: On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: systemd does not take the system down when it crashes. It catches the signal, dumps core and freezes, but does not exit. ^^^ So you just end up with a froze system instead of a

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:36 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: Why does systemd link against libpam? systemd does logins now, not /bin/login or gdm or ...? to implement PAMName= (man systemd.exec) I don't see any users of this feature on my F15. I searched with Google and come up empty too. But

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:11 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 06/10/2011 03:59 PM, Steve Clark wrote: On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: systemd does not take the system down when it crashes. It catches the signal, dumps core and freezes, but does not exit.

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Lucas
On 06/10/2011 08:42 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:36 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: Why does systemd link against libpam? systemd does logins now, not /bin/login or gdm or ...? to implement PAMName= (man systemd.exec) I don't see any users of this feature on my F15. I

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: It's the *fourth* largest process on my system! # ldd `which systemd` 1) Looking at what libraries a binary links to a is a terrible way to optimize memory usage; try massif, say 2) It'd be a lot more productive to be

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:11 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 06/10/2011 03:59 PM, Steve Clark wrote: On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: systemd does not take the system down when it crashes. It catches the

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/11/2011 12:36 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Would be nice to see the systemd author join this discussion? I am sure you can get answers when someone is off vacation. However what would be really nice is to redirect systemd discussions to its upstream mailing list. Fedora devel is hardly the

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/11/2011 12:36 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Would be nice to see the systemd author join this discussion? I am sure you can get answers when someone is off vacation.  However what would be really nice is to redirect

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: I guess that your reference to moving to upstream indicates that systemd is now sufficiently established that discussion of problems is an upstream issue for bug triage/fixing? I would imagine that the user list may

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/10/2011 04:44 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Rahul Sundarammethe...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/11/2011 12:36 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Would be nice to see the systemd author join this discussion? I am sure you can get answers when someone is off vacation. However

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/10/2011 03:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: what would be really nice is to redirect systemd discussions to its upstream mailing list. Fedora devel is hardly the best place for it. Rahul Beg to differ - rather vehemently too - politely but vehemently. systemd is only available in

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Denys Vlasenko wrote: Mem total:2035840 anon:431208 map:78924 free:419084 [snip] 1 15384 11856 13664 1340 11752 0 132 /sbin/init So this singleton process is taking 0.76% of your RAM. What the heck are you complaining about? Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/11/2011 05:20 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Lets be blunt here - he pushed very very very hard on these very lists to get systemd in - now its in F15 and there are problems - so no punting please. Upstream and fedora are the same for syste That is a gross over simplification. Fedora is

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