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? Here is the (edited) "statistics" obtained by grepping /var/log/daemon.log. The disk is actually an Intel X-25 (sata-2) SSD. --- No timers are active (baseline) --- Apr 6: 5.983s (kernel) + 1.947s (userspace) = 7.930s. Apr 6: 5.815s (kernel) + 2.494s (userspace) = 8.310s. Apr 6: 5.692s (kernel) + 1.612s (userspace) = 7.304s. Apr 7: 5.874s (kernel) + 2.561s (userspace) = 8.436s. Apr 9: 5.704s (kernel) + 3.001s (userspace) = 8.706s. Apr 10: 5.612s (kernel) + 2.494s (userspace) = 8.106s. Apr 11: 5.618s (kernel) + 2.908s (userspace) = 8.526s. Apr 12: 5.671s (kernel) + 3.345s (userspace) = 9.016s. --- Timers first run --- Apr 14: 5.464s (kernel) + 46.883s (userspace) = 52.348s. --- Startup with timers --- Apr 15: 5.715s (kernel) + 2.878s (userspace) = 8.593s. Apr 16: Not powered on Apr 17: 6.414s (kernel) + 7.785s (userspace) = 14.200s. $ systemd-analyze blame | head 6.724s man-db.service 1.935s updatedb.service 926ms root-ssh-key-init@0x14d33aba.service 507ms lxc@appserver\x2dx86_64.service 427ms rfkill-unblock@wlan.service 381ms systemd-networkd.service 340ms wlan-powersave@wls1.service 289ms syslog-ng.service 235ms volatile-mail.service 225ms iptables.service Thanks, L. -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D