On Wednesday, September 2, 2020 6:09:26 AM MST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:27:33PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > These are based on Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33-20200828.n.0.iso > > in a VM. The numbers are different on bare metal but correlate. > > > > The only standout is rngd.service. That's a pretty big single hit, > > percentage wise. And I don't know if we even need it anymore. Among > > the rest, perhaps atd.service and crond.service could be disabled by > > default on new installations, in favor of systemd timers. > > > I think that with the recent-ish kernel changes to make /dev/urandom > non-blocking, rngd should not be installed by default. > > > As for crond and atd, I think we can keep them installed by default, > but inactive. I.e. make them socket activated or path activated, so that > they are only started if people install actual crontabs or run at. Instead, why not just have these start in the background, so that they don't inhibit the start of `sddm` or `lightdm`? > We would also need to convert any packaged cronfiles into systemd > timers. But it seems that this is already mostly done. On my machine, > /etc/cron.weekly/98-zfs-fuse-scrub is the only real crontab entry. > > Those are not big programs, but each thing that is running on a > machine has some small impact... Having these start in the background would remove that startup impact. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
