Re: The GNU Shepherd 0.9.0rc1 available for testing!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:59:33PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> You can test it on Guix System with:
>> 
>>   guix time-machine --branch=wip-shepherd-upgrade -- \
>>     system reconfigure …
>
> On my 2010 Macbook Pro (with hard disk, not using SSD), boot time to
> GDM got a few seconds slower/faster from 3:08--3:22 minutes to
> 3:19--3:20 minutes.  (Faster old boot times are a few days old; seems
> to vary with temperature or phase of the moon or something.  So it is
> maybe not slower at all or maybe even 2 seconds faster.)

OK.  I don’t expect faster boot times on ‘%desktop-services’ because
those are unchanged: either they’re started “greedily” early on (like
elogind, network-manager, etc.), or they’re started lazily by
dbus-daemon.

There’s little room for boot time improvements here, AFAICS, but I’d
love to be proved wrong.

Thanks for testing and reporting back!

Ludo’.