On 2014-09-18, Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> The code is out there. Freely available. Both systemd and sysvinit. >> If you wanted to measure both, you could, literally, in the time it >> took since you first posted in this thread till now you could have >> measured several times and left mean comments about whichever >> system you hated the most. > > Unfortunately, the systemd guys keep screaming that systemd is faster, > and burden of proof is on the party that's claiming something. It's not > James'/Volker's responsibility to prove that systemd isn't faster.
I don't understand all the hoopla about systemd being "faster". Faster at what? Booting? The only Linux systems where I care about boot time are embedded systems which are never going to have the resources needed to run systemd. As for normal desktop machines, who cares? I only reboot them once every month or two (when I'm bored and want to make sure they will still boot up after updates). My laptop(s) get booted a lot more often than desktops, but the boot times have never been an issue. The other thing I keep hearing from systemd proponents is stuff about how it allows you to parallelize startup. I don't _want_ stuff starting up in parallel -- that just makes it all the more difficult to troubleshoot problems. I want things to start up one at a time, in a determined order. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH at lands on my HEAD and I gmail.com become a VEGETARIAN ...