On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:31:07 +0200 Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Am 17.04.2014 20:56, schrieb Leonid Isaev:
Hi,
Since anacron jobs were replaced with timers, I am seeing a noticeable delay before agetty prompt appears on machines which were unused for some time (due to update/man-db timers starting up simultaneously).
TLDR: Anacron inserts a random delay between boot and running the jobs, so is it possible to simulate this behavior by including e.g. "OnBootSec=..." in the timers at next update? Or is this option incompatible with OnCalendar?
OnBootSec would cause the timers to always run on boot, no matter how much time has passed, which is not what we want.
OK.
I don't think it is a problem that the timers run on boot, but rather that they delay Type=idle units, like agetty. From what the documentation says, there should not be any delay:
"Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of the service binary is delayed until all jobs are dispatched."
I am confused why get a delay here.
I think the problem is the disk I/O generated due to e.g. man-db indexing, because I see the hdd light is solid on. So, my guess is that two things can happen: either the login prompt is delayed, or the prompt is shown but the actual login will stall.
I think another solution in systemd would be introducing a holdoff time: Instead of running immediately on boot, the timer should be scheduled for boot+5min.
You are right -- that's the best way to put it. Except, I'd generate random timeouts (distributed in some interval) for the corresponding services...
Thanks, L.