From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: christophe.pisteur@posteo.net
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix system boot time
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 16:32:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200502203233.GA29000@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d680542f1eef794cef1514a4d0810727@posteo.net>
Welcome and thanks for trying Guix!
On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:09:10PM +0200, christophe.pisteur@posteo.net wrote:
> The only small problem is the system startup, which takes a long time (3
> minutes from grub to GDM user login). It is probably due to a problem with
> the system clock (I get somes warnings: ntpd clock unsynchronized). I don't
> know where the boot log is on guix system and I don't know if it has to do
> with GNU bug report logs - #22274.
I have Guix on an X200 (basically the same as yours) and I can confirm,
it's slow.
I don't think it's related to ntpd. I see the same warnings but the
system displays the login prompt before they are resolved.
Generally, the issue is that the Shepherd is not optimized to the degree
that systemd is, and that these old Thinkpads (sold in 2008) are really
slow by contemporary standards.
One of the early selling points of systemd was that it reduced boot
times from being measured in minutes, which used to be typical, to
seconds. Now systemd is the standard, and minutes-long booting seems
incredibly and unreasonably slow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-02 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 20:09 guix system boot time christophe.pisteur
2020-05-02 20:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-05-02 21:06 ` sirgazil
2020-05-02 21:48 ` christophe.pisteur
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