Apparently the reason my computer has been taking 2 minutes to boot was a faulty network mount

  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    87·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure the main system startup bottleneck is me typing the disk encryption passphrase.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      No, there currently isn’t

      And it’s not as easy to add actually. Note that systemd only keeps units loaded as long as they are referenced by something else that is loaded, are running, have failed, or have a job queued. That means if a service is terminated at shutdown there’s a very good chance it is GC’ed away pretty quickly. Now, while systemd keeps timestamping info around for services that tell us how long a service was running, took to start or took to shut down all that info is lost the instant the unit is GC’ed away…

      Source

  • gayhitler420@lemm.ee
    191·
    1 year ago

    I wrote a long-ish comment in another thread explaining why lots of people don’t like systemd.

    Stuff like this is why people do like systemd.

    The massive, un unixy and complex tools allow for very powerful and somewhat knowledge agnostic approaches to all sorts of problems.

    One of the nicest things about systemds toolset is that it allows a person who relies on finding the problem and googling it to resolve thing much faster than their alternative, learn what’s going on and figure it out.

    I don’t mean that as a pejorative, plenty of computer work is maintenance as opposed to engineering and there’s nothing wrong with that.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the article, I’ve already spotted a few utilities that can come in useful. I’ve heard a lot of criticism about systemd too, but never really actively used it myself until a few weeks ago. I actually quite like it from what I’ve seen so far.

  • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    It tells me that my system boots in 7 seconds. That’s pretty cool, considering that it’s installed on a plain old sata SSD.

    POST, however…

  • droidpenguin@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Dang had no idea this was a thing, but this looks very useful! I’ve been meaning to troubleshoot slow startup on one of my servers.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    51·
    1 year ago

    this is interesting! if i had a two minute boot time, I’d look for ways to figure out what’s going on.

    i remember init messages used to be printed to the console, but nowadays all i get is Manjaro branding. anyone know how to get my console messages back from systemd?

  • bc3114@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Aha! Reminds me of the good old days when I tried to minimize boot up time on my puny Ivy Bridge i5 laptop. Those days were fun!