On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 13:56:15 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I set up a Jessie VM (kvm: 1 cpu, 512MB RAM, qemu2 filesystem) > to take a look at what is coming down the road.
I did the same as you but used a real machine. You didn't bother to say what you installed so I haven't either. > The default install with systemd as init boots very quickly. It does. doesn't it? It also confirms that a Jessie install is reliable. > When I changed to sysvinit, boot times ended up around 32 > seconds, and sometimes 47. We suppose you used the standard way to change to sysvinit; you do not say. I've never seen any significant change in the time to boot. > Most of this time seemed to be taken up by udev. By default, > it has no configuration for logging. > > Changing /etc/udev/udev.conf to log errors: > udev_log="err" > > and updating the initramfs: > update-initramfs -k all -u > > gives sysvinit a boot time of 1.42 seconds. > > > jessietest:/home/dsr# pstree > init─┬─acpid > ├─atd > ├─chef-client───{ruby-timer-thr} > ├─cron > ├─exim4 > ├─6*[getty] > ├─rpc.idmapd > ├─rpc.statd > ├─rpcbind > ├─rsyslogd─┬─{in:imklog} > │ ├─{in:imuxsock} > │ └─{rs:main Q:Reg} > ├─sshd───sshd───sshd───bash───sudo───bash───pstree > └─udevd > > That might be helpful. It's probably as helpful as the other thread you started and didn't contribute to: https://lists.debian.org/20140901172609.ga20...@randomstring.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140916202031.gb4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk