[systemd-devel] systemd-readahead and often used applications

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 15.04.2013 19:53, schrieb Kok:
>>> thanks, i will give it a try
>>> why not "Type=forking"?
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>>> in my expierience a service works with simple/forking and only
>>> one of them while i must say my low-level understanding may
>>> not be enouh to realize what to use.............
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>> The daemon doesn't need to do extra work to fork, and systemd won't
>> need to do all the work associated with tracking a forked process -
>> it's a lot less work, thus more efficient, and actually more robust
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> hi
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> does this mean in recent systemd-versions it is no longer needed
> to use "Type=forking" at all while it was a must for some servcies
> in early versions?

no, which is why I added the '-f' flag to the preload startup in the
service unit that I posted (it keeps preload running in the
foreground).

Auke