[OE-core] State of systemd from an integrator point of view

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 February 2013 13:10, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> * systemd's journald is not suitable for small devices. I think the default
>> should be to disable the journald and do not disable the busybox log
>> application in the systemd-compat units package. journald is dominated by
>> memory allocations and reading procfs over and over again.
>
> Agreed, although it would be good if the journal could be tuned.  IMHO
> it's technically great, just young.
>
> I wonder if we can split out the bulk of the journal binaries into a
> separate package, so by default it's disabled and then installing
> systemd-journal would enable it.

Just noticed that the disabling of syslog isn't working for me, it
disables syslog-busybox but there's a syslog symlink to it, which is
being started. :)

Ross