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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello!

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I see! The unusual slowness would explain why the default timeout needed
to be relaxed.

> 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.

It's an interesting experiment for sure :-) Please let us know of your
findings!

Maxim