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