[arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

[Tom Gundersen]

On Aug 15, 2012 7:35 AM, "Tom Gundersen" <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2012 3:35 AM, "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I tried systemd a while ago in a brand new machine with Arch Linux and
> > the boot was *much slower*. After some exchanges with Lennart
> > Poettering and other people in Google+[1], it became clear I was on my
> > own. Eventually I found the culprit: Fedora uses CONFIG_HZ_1000, and
> > Arch Linux uses CONFIG_HZ_300. It became clear to me that systemd was
> > not ready for prime time, it wasn't thoroughly tested in a lot of
> > machines, and if you have problems Lennart Poettering will blame you
> > (PulseAudio sounds familiar?).
>
> Do you have a link to a proper bug report for this issue? I tried reading
the Google+ thread but I couldn't stomach how rude you were in each of your
messages (including the first one) so stopped reading.

Ok I we've back and read to the end. The last message contained interesting
info. There is likely more to it, as I have not been able to reproduce
this, but still, something with looking into. As to out kernel options, if
there are good reasons to change any of them, open feature requests
(working around bugs us not necessarily a good reason).

Tom