On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:30:38 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2011-08-23 08:27, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: > > On Monday, August 22, 2011 11:09:02 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Am 22.08.2011 20:29, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > I don't tend to use preload. Is it usefull in a non-systemd > > environment? > > I always had the impression that things started faster with preload, > yes. Might be less of an impact with the new SSD I have in my desktop > machine now. > > I didn't really miss it when switching to systemd (where I don't have a > service-file for it yet).
Guess it doesn't have much of an improvement anymore? :) > >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Improve_responsiveness_with_cgroups > >> > >> Is that stuff still valid? > > > > Maybe, if you want to group stuff you're running yourself into > > seperate groups. The different services are grouped already. > > > >> With systemd the whole use of cgroups changes fundamentally, I > >> don't have the knowledge to decide if to use both in parallel. > >> > >> For now I disabled the stuff from the wiki (stop sourcing > >> /etc/bash/local/cgrouprc) as it only gives me warnings ... > > > > What kind of warnings? Systemd already mounts the filesystem for it > > and starts poulating it. If your script does similar things, they > > might try to duplicate work? > > The code tries to write to its own dir: > > mkdir -p -m 0700 $cdir/user/$$ > /dev/null 2>&1 > /bin/echo $$ > $cdir/user/$$/tasks > /bin/echo '1' > $cdir/user/$$/notify_on_release > > But somehow the mkdir seems to fail as I get warnings from the two > echo-statements, that their "target-files" do not exist, which lead me > to the fact that $cdir/user/$$ does not exist. You could try adding ls-statements to see if it can set that op? Or try to run those commands. Where is $cdir pointing to? > > I think it is more useful on desktops and laptops, which get rebooted > > > > regularly. On a server that tends to run for months without a > > > > reboot, a fast init-system is important. > > You mean, "not so important" ? Yes, that's what I meant :) > > And I don't really see the point of D-BUS on a server either. All the > > services that need to talk to each other already have working > > communication paths. > > > > I do intend to implement it on my desktop and netbook as I'd like to > > have those booting as fast as possible. > > Yep, I agree. > Stefan
