On 2014-07-17, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote: > > But the only practical advantage of systemd that I've seen touted > is that it speeds up boot-time. > Even if this were true it does not seem to me worth worrying about, It is if you manage a large cluster of virtual containers which dynamically boot or shut down based on load or other factors. If you need to boot 100 virtual containers right away, boot time will be a huge factor. (Not suggesting that systemd actually solves this issue, only that boot time is important in some use cases.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us