Re: guix system boot time

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 ---- On Sun, 03 May 2020 03:32:33 +0000 Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote 
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 > Welcome and thanks for trying Guix!
 > 
 > On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:09:10PM +0200, address@hidden 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.
 > 
 > 

Guix System: Very long, scary boot time: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39089