is taht growing amount of services running on all systems really necessary and why are things like "repart.service" and "homed.service" are started "static" which makes the concept of enable/disable things more and more obsolete 7.4 MB is a lot and i don't see any issue by just mask "systemd-userdbd.service" and "systemd-userdbd.socket" on sever systems at the moment, but who knows how deep the dependencies will become in the future lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-05-28 09:06 systemd-homed.service -> /dev/null lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-07-06 17:45 systemd-repart.service -> /dev/null lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-08-06 18:48 systemd-timesyncd.service -> /dev/null lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-08-24 12:47 systemd-userdbd.service -> /dev/null lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-08-24 12:47 systemd-userdbd.socket -> /dev/null [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ systemctl status systemd-userdbd ● systemd-userdbd.service - User Database Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-userdbd.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-08-24 12:45:34 CEST; 48min ago TriggeredBy: ● systemd-userdbd.socket Docs: man:systemd-userdbd.service(8) Main PID: 719025 (systemd-userdbd) Status: "Processing requests..." Tasks: 4 (limit: 512) Memory: 7.4M CPU: 253ms CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-userdbd.service ├─719025 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-userdbd ├─725718 systemd-userwork ├─725842 systemd-userwork └─725843 systemd-userwork _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel