Several days ago I found that PID 1 on my system permanently eats 30% of CPU by actively polling something. This is also somehow lead to some error when I have tried to do nixos-rebuild switch. I typed reboot and lost my machine. I found it powered off instead of rebooted when I reached it physically.
On 03.10.2015 22:02, Michael Raskin wrote: >> Why don't you like systemd, guys? > > (I guess I have said everything below some time ago, when answering the > same question) > > I would benefit from extermination of all software enforcing > impossibility of anything similar to startx. Systemd is written so that > it makes impossible working startx as a side effect. I want to write > a small setuid binary starting a new X session (a second or a third > one). > > I have an idea what I want my system to do and what I want my system not > to do. Systemd spreads like cancer swiping more and more areas of the > system into a single monolithic (even if multi-executable; it has no > published stable interfaces) blob; each time it starts to do something, > in a new area it takes additional effort to make it stop doing that, it > is quite often very active by default. In some cases, like with session > management, it is impossible to get back the simple behavior I always > had and liked. > > I am still not sure if journald has reached the performance level of > plain text logs. Also, apparently logs do get corrupted from time to > time; with text logs I generally lose access to less data than with > journald. > >>>> Oh, yes, another thing: independence of systemd :D >>> >>> Oh? I currently have some weird NixPkgs-based init-less system, how do >>> I get NixOS services without systemd (or full NixOS without systemd as >>> PID 1, I am OK with systemd running as a daemon if it doesn't maange >>> logs and console sessions). > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev