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Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time



On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 18/05/2014 08:34, Tom H a écrit :
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with
>>> sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow to start, in the order
>>> of 5 seconds (which seems like an eternity).
>>>
>>> Additionally, this slow tty/session creation time is seen when:
>>> *) exiting X - ie logout back to terminal (from startx)
>>> *) Shutdown from XFCE logout/shutdown dialog
>>>
>>> When exiting X from a startx at the linux tty, there appears to be a
>>> large session tear-down time.
>>>
>>> In addition, a similarly long duration is seen when (as stated)
>>> starting another linux vt.
>>
>> By default, other than tty1 (via
>> "/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service"), VTs are
>> started dynamically as needed.
>>
>> If you want tty2 to be available permanently and persistently through
>> reboots, run:
>>
>> systemctl enable getty@tty2.service
>> systemctl start getty@tty2.service
>>
>> The first command will create a
>> "/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty2.service" symlink to
>> "/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service", which is more or less similar
>> to, in the case of a hypothetical getty@tty2 sysvinit script, having
>> "update-rc.d enable getty@tty2" create
>> "/etc/rc{2,3,4,5}.d/Sabgetty@tty2" and "/etc/rc{0,6}.d/Kcdgetty@tty2"
>> symlinks to "/etc/init.d/getty@tty2".
>
> And is there a way toi keep current behaviour : X session on tty 7 ?

What does the above have to do with X and tty7?


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