On 03/27/2013 05:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 27/03/2013 22:41, Michael Mol wrote: >> The case for systemd is twofold: > > ... > >> 2) Reduce the amount of CPU and RAM consumed when you're talking about >> booting tens of thousands of instances simultaneously across your entire >> infrastructure, or when your server instance might be spun up and down >> six times over the course of a single day. > > I seems to me that this is rather a niche quite-specialized case (albeit > a rather large instance of a niche case). In which case it would be > better implemented as Redhat MagicSauce for their cloud environment > where it would be exactly tuned to that case's need.
But it's a great deal cheaper to convince volunteers and package maintainers to put in the time to build the necessary service files of their own accord. Add in the complexity of parallel boot, and you can induce upstream to fix their own race-driven bugs rather than have to pay for that development directly.
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