steve_v wrote:If you call a 3 minute wait at shutdown a performance problem, yes.If you call increased memory consumption a performance problem, yes.If you call increased idle CPU use a performance problem, yes.
Timeout can be reduced, and it doesn't happen often anymore. Not much anyway.
Increased memory consumption? By what margins now? Aren't you maybe attributing it to general newer software memory consumption? Have you run valid benchmarks on the same system?
Increased idle CPU use is the same as above. I even attribute it to pulseaudio or some other process, rather than systemd.
steve_v wrote:It stifles my freedom to run an init system of my choosing.
Not really. There are good systemd-free distros now, and there were before. (Wheezy)
steve_v wrote:It makes the boot process difficult to follow and to modify.
If there is a problem, it will be clearly visible in red (unless you enabled "quiet"). If not, there are journald logs.
steve_v wrote:It adds failure-prone and unneeded complexity and attack surface.
And your answer is to run decades old code which has many known flaws and will not be maintained
officially ever?
steve_v wrote:It's required by a huge number of debian packages for no good reason.
See above. And it's installed by default now in Debian, what did you expect?
steve_v wrote:It gets on my nerves. I simply don't like it, the entire design smells.
So don't use systems that run it. Why would a piece of free software get on your nerves, anyway?
steve_v wrote:If your answer to code bloat and scope creep is "buy a faster PC"... I have no words. At least no printable ones anyway.
And if your answer is to forever be running an old Pentium build with 1 GB RAM, then I too really don't have words for your ignorance. No wonder everything seems slow for you and some other people here. The 32-bit arch is dying, you can't do computing on the potato PC anymore. I know, I had a potato until 2015th.
steve_v wrote:Indeed. I doubt it's a coincidence that systemd and pulseaudio are both from RedHat. Products of the same developer even.
First Red Hat, and now Mozzila too? Wow man...who needs FOSS browser and the world's largest and most profitable open source company, am I right? s/ Surely you know better than the people who actually code that free software. /s