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On Thu, March 28, 2013 07:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 28/03/2013 04:56, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> On 03/27/2013 05:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On 27/03/2013 22:41, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>>> The case for systemd is twofold: |
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>>> ... |
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>>>> 2) Reduce the amount of CPU and RAM consumed when you're talking about |
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>>>> booting tens of thousands of instances simultaneously across your |
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>>>> entire |
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>>>> infrastructure, or when your server instance might be spun up and down |
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>>>> six times over the course of a single day. |
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>>> |
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>>> I seems to me that this is rather a niche quite-specialized case |
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>>> (albeit |
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>>> a rather large instance of a niche case). In which case it would be |
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>>> better implemented as Redhat MagicSauce for their cloud environment |
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>>> where it would be exactly tuned to that case's need. |
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>> But it's a great deal cheaper to convince volunteers and package |
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>> maintainers to put in the time to build the necessary service files of |
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>> their own accord. Add in the complexity of parallel boot, and you can |
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>> induce upstream to fix their own race-driven bugs rather than have to |
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>> pay for that development directly. |
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> I don't follow the thought stream here Michael. |
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> It feels like there's a word or a sentence missing (it's just not |
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> hanging together) |
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Alan, I think what Michael is trying to say is that by getting other |
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distros to package systemd, other distros will help RedHat to find and fix |
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the problems systemd is causing. |
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