Thierry Vignaud skrev 23.8.2011 16:28:
On 23 August 2011 13:16, Guillaume Rousse<guillomovi...@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 :)
--
Thomas
