archvortex wrote:If you're using new gear with 4 or more Gigs of RAM you're not going care about 100 MB with systemd, but since we run linux on some older computers we do care and sysvinit or another init does what we need. I rarely need swap with BBQ but with Arch and systemd, as soon as I open Chromium with three tabs open it starts using swap and there's a 200-300 MB difference with BBQ.
Apples and oranges, imo. Arch uses more memory than Debian no matter what init I use, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. You can't assume that systemd uses more memory just because Arch and systemd uses more than Debian and sysv. Compare Debian with systemd and sysv if you really want to see if it makes a difference. That gives me an idea for an experiment...
Personally, I don't care what init system I use. I have installs with systemd, sysv, and busybox. There are advantages and disadvantages for all of them.
On topic: I usually stick to the LTS kernels, but I recently built a 4.3.3 kernel on CRUX while experimenting with ccache and distcc.
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Linux fatman 4.3.3-pidsley #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 1 16:45:46 PST 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux