when startup delays become bugs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 14.05.13 17:58, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:

> Static hostname: f19q.localdomain
> Takes 1.5 minutes before I can ssh into the VM, but the
> sendmail.service is now about 2 seconds instead of a minute.

Is this a non-debug kernel?

> [root at f19q ~]# systemd-analyze blame
>          51.688s firewalld.service
>          50.696s restorecond.service
>          16.989s avahi-daemon.service
>          16.023s systemd-logind.service
>          11.908s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

With the recommendations from

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787314#c37

NM-w-o.s would become a service that is only pulled in when actually
needed. It would be good to get this included in F19, as it is
completely bogus to delay the boot for everybody just because a few
people happen to have static NFS mounts listed in fstab.

BTW, "systemd-analyze critical-chain" (possibly with --fuzz=500ms) is a
new tool in F19, which allows a bit more 

Lennart

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