Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 13, 2016 20:58 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by jrigg
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

> Keeping up with the constantly moving goalposts is another matter. Systemd's method of configuring realtime privileges for users has changed at least twice that I'm aware of (and the relevent documentation at freedesktop.org is two years out of date), for example.
You awareness is incorrect. Systemd is committed to backwards compatibility, so my units from 2012 still work just fine.

Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 14, 2016 13:05 UTC (Tue) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link]

>You awareness is incorrect. Systemd is committed to backwards compatibility

According to this, https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServi... the way to allow realtime scheduling for users for a specific service is to add ControlGroup=cpu:/ to its [Service] section. The ControlGroup= option was removed in systemd 205 (July 2013) but the document hasn't been changed. That's an example of what I was referring to.

To be fair it's only one specific example, but it did contribute to my decision to stick with sysvinit-core on my Debian systems for the time being.