Re: [systemd-devel] Support for large applications

2016-03-19 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/18/2016 08:28 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 17.02.16 14:35, Avi Kivity (a...@scylladb.com) wrote: We are using systemd to supervise our NoSQL database and are generally happy. Thank you for the feedback! We are always interested in good feedback like yours. A few things will

Re: [systemd-devel] Support for large applications

2016-03-19 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/19/2016 03:24 PM, Michal Sekletar wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: I don't think there's a way around the issue short of allowing watchdog during startup. Databases which do long recovery are a bit special, most programs don't exhibit this kind

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 29

2016-02-17 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/17/2016 07:17 PM, systemd-devel-requ...@lists.freedesktop.org wrote: 3. watchdog during startup Sometimes we need to perform expensive operations during startup (log replay, rebuild from network replica) before we can start serving. Rather than configure a huge start timeout, I'd prefer

Re: [systemd-devel] Support for large applications

2016-02-17 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/17/2016 03:56 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:35:55PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: We are using systemd to supervise our NoSQL database and are generally happy. A few things will help even more: 1. log core dumps immediately rather than after the dump

[systemd-devel] Support for large applications

2016-02-17 Thread Avi Kivity
We are using systemd to supervise our NoSQL database and are generally happy. A few things will help even more: 1. log core dumps immediately rather than after the dump completes A database will often consume all memory on the machine; dumping 120GB can take a lot of time, especially if compr

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/15/2011 12:17 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/14/2011 06:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 06.06.11 16:01, Avi Kivity (a...@redhat.com) wrote: > I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. During > the boot process it times out starting various .device units

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/14/2011 06:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 06.06.11 16:01, Avi Kivity (a...@redhat.com) wrote: > I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. During > the boot process it times out starting various .device units, like > sda1.device. If I let it alon

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-07 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/06/2011 07:17 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: On 06/06/2011 03:01 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. During the boot process it times out starting various .device units, like sda1.device. A general advice: Always use stable names (UUID, LABEL

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-07 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/06/2011 07:25 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 17:58, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/06/2011 06:47 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:01, Avi Kivitywrote: >> >I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. Duri

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/06/2011 06:47 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:01, Avi Kivity wrote: > I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. During the boot > process it times out starting various .device units, like sda1.device. If I > let it alone it will boot in abo

[systemd-devel] systemd .device units timing out

2011-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
I have a system which was upgraded to F15 and thus systemd. During the boot process it times out starting various .device units, like sda1.device. If I let it alone it will boot in about a week or so, but meanwhile it is unusable. I am able to start it up using emergency.target and various h