Public bug reported: Hello,
I've noticed that Ubuntu Server images don't come with snapd and core snaps preseeded which causes the first snap install to take an extremely long time on my machines. I've done some research and I noticed that this was discussed in LP #2051572 [1] where it was shown that preseeding slows down the boot process by 1.5s. It was prioritized to reduce the boot slowdown by removing the preseeding at the expense of slowing down the first snap install by ~15s. I've looked into the boot slowdown and I've figured it's because `snapd` gets decompressed during boot and that takes a long time. This can be fixed by replacing the snap with a decompressed version, which lowers snap's boot overhead to ~350ms (even when a core snap is installed) - much better than the original 1.5s and without increasing the first snap install time by ~15s. However, this increases the size of the snapd snap from 51.6MB to 154.8MB. I think this tradeoff is worth it. What do you think? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/2051572 ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2163647 Title: Allow preseeding core and snapd snaps in server seed by improving boot time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/2163647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
