[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Tue Aug 23 15:42:21 CEST 2011

'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<guillomovitch at gmail.com> 
+>> 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
+
+
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