Re: syslogd can't be started when running Guix in Docker

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm happy to read you could successfully make it work! It's strange
>> that you had that issue though!
>
> By now I have a system that starts all services without failure. I got
> there by increasing the timeout to 30 s everywhere (compared to the
> default value of 5). Perhaps 30 is more than necessary, I didn't try
> intermediate values. So it looks like Guix in Docker is a bit slow to
> boot, at least on the Mac.
>
> A more fundamental question is whether I will be able to do useful work
> with this setup. It is well known that host file access from Docker on
> macOS is slow, but I didn't realize how slow it is until I compiled Guix
> in... four hours. On the same machine booted to Linux, it's about 40
> minutes.

Ouch.  Is this a fact of life or are there special settings that could
make it less slow?

Five seconds to spawn a process is already relatively long; we could
increase it a little, but the slowness here is a concern.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Ludo’.