Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

Mon Oct 27 15:35:30 UTC 2014

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us>

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>
> > wrote:
> >> And you whisk all that away with "it's not really clear to me that
> >> 'reboots in seconds' is a think to be optimized"????
> >
> > False dilemma.
> > [ snip ]
> > 10 seconds from power on to user interface for desktops, will
> > meaningfully improve the user experience, but not for servers.
> 
> It's a false dilemma only if you're thinking about traditional
> physical servers. Consider:
> 
> 1) What if you're spinning up several thousand Hadoop nodes on AWS or
> GCE so that you can do some sort of "big data" operation.
> 
> 2) What if PewDiePie just mentioned one of your products in a video
> and you need to quickly scale up the number of backend servers to
> handle the load.
> 
> I'm sure that there are many other scenarios that I could devise where
> a fast "server" boot time was important.

I will stipulate this use case.

I will counter with "you wouldn't be running a "real" distro in that
case anyway; you'd be running something super trimmed down, and possibly
custom built, or based on something like CoreOS, that only does one job.

Well.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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