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archer42

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Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

Hi,
Archlinux ist the fastest Distribution I had in my life

But I think there still is optimization area. One problem I see is that daemons start one after another. Sure this isn't a bad idea because netfs requires a working net. But there are many damons like cups, gdm, dbus, avahi which could actually start at the same time. Is this possible?

And if yes how do I do this?

karol

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

Try '@avahi' etc.

Not fast enough - try systemd.

Last edited by karol (2011-09-04 22:20:19)

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

Rc.conf says quite clearly you can use @ to background services.

If that's not enough for you, follow karol's advice.

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archer42

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

Hi, thanks for the advice.
The @daemons is really speeding up good.

Has somebogy experience with systemd?
Is it stable?

Regards

karol

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

Has somebogy experience with systemd?
Is it stable?

Regards

I haven't tried it.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd
Pretty long thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96316
A very short and fresh one: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125953

Last edited by karol (2011-09-05 12:40:13)

archer42

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

systemctl
Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:420, function list_units(). Aborting.

Any idea?

Regards

Varg

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

systemctl
Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:420, function list_units(). Aborting.

Any idea?

Regards

What exactly did you do ?

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archer42

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

I used:

pacman -S initscripts-systemd systemd-arch-units
systemctl
Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:420, function list_units(). Aborting.

Leonid.I

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

I used:

pacman -S initscripts-systemd systemd-arch-units
systemctl
Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:420, function list_units(). Aborting.

I hate to be a buzzkiller here, but do you have any particular goal in mind? You see, systemd is NOT a boot optimization tool (see the original blog story), but a sophisticated init replacement. Nor is it a "fire and forget" app.

Before diving into it, I would run Fedore 15/16 for sometime. This way you'll understand the basics and know what to expect.

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KlavKalashj

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Re: Init: Is there a way to start the services parallel?

systemctl
Assertion 'bus' failed at src/systemctl.c:420, function list_units(). Aborting.

Any idea?

Regards

You need to boot with systemd to use systemctl. add init=/bin/systemd to the kernel line in grub and boot. The wiki about systemd is quite messy, but read it a few times and you'll get it.