cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51172610
Remember in 2020 when yours truly opened systemd issue 15292 showing that 500 KB of text logs turned into 700 MB of SSD thrashing, only to be met with maintainer hostility? The maintainers famously declared "I don't think you know what you're talking about," insisted it was non-actionable, and closed the issue while collecting dozens of angry downvotes from the community. Because why fix an architectural design flaw when you can just insult the user's methodology and pretend write amplification doesn't exist?
Fast-forward six years, and nothing changed—except the frustration. In early 2026, a fresh ticket was filed, proving that writing just two lines of log per second in a virtual machine pushed storage to ~50 IOPS continuously. Systemd's memory-mapped hash tables were still dirtying entire 4 KiB pages, triggering filesystem metadata updates, and churning through gigabytes of I/O for a handful of log entries.
Then came the turning point: the new issue blew up on Hacker News, exposing the sheer absurdity of the years-long denial to the broader tech community. Suddenly, faced with public front-page embarrassment, the maintainers' dismissive wall crumbled. @ValdikSS stepped in with exhaustive isolated cgroup and loop-device benchmarking, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that a single 750-byte log message regularly generates ~50 KB to ~70 KB of underlying disk writes.
Miraculously, once the corporate-backed enterprise maintainers were publicly put on blast, someone on the team finally decided to take a look and start addressing it. It turns out the issue was actionable all along—it just required six years of community pain, a dedicated independent researcher doing the maintainers' profiling for them, and a front-page roasting on Hacker News to make the enterprise overlords care.
This whole saga perfectly distills the systemd experience: a monolithic ecosystem engineered strictly for enterprise container hosts and cloud providers, where real-world desktop and edge hardware constraints are dismissed as "user error" right up until the PR optics become too toxic to ignore.
'few people' -For tech there's many, but because Lemmy is OS; they're mostly Linux advocates. For politics / religion: I go to Gab.com.
They're stricter here btw. Don't use those *ard or *roon words, not even after loonix. They don't mess around and will permaban unlike the games Reddit (usually) plays.
I put so much work into it.. like 1h of typing and a lot of documentation.. why was it removed?
"chinification" -which was reported by a user for 'sinophobia' within an hour of you posting it.
If you're going to spend an hour typing, you might want to learn to undo capslock. Typing in all caps extended like that is rude because it's more difficult to read.
I've covered the topic before. Linux users don't care, and many people don't like Lunduke.
I did none of that. it was about the CCP, not China.
I don't care about capslock, it's on purpose , I have no respect for linux users , if I had crayons I would have used them.
they hate anybody who is normal, not just Lunduke.
anyway, I reposted it. If you want, mirror the core info on reddit for more to see, if you wanna spread the message. since most don't know about this. it's not mentioned in the pinned messages either. and at the end, I offered some solutions.
I know what it means and regardless of intent, 'chinification' was a poor choice of words to use. Sinophobia is what was reported, and it seemed a legit report for this site.
Not using lower case is being an ass to me who has to read the walls of text of stuff I already know about. If I wasn't mod; I wouldn't bother reading it because it comes across as childish/immature. -Consider that if you want to be heard by more people.
I don't agree with all of Lunduke's politics. Regardless, he's self-marginalizing for it, and I feel we can do better anyway.
The repost looks fine, thank you! It is great having someone else provide some content!
I thought that lemmy is decentralized and each instance has it's own admins.. peculiar. thanks for letting me know. I'll use the gab more.
They have to follow laws here, and by definition 'ableist slur'. We're on the most open that I'm aware of. I tried another and the admin was an ass (sh.itjustworks).
Gab is dead or pointless for 'linux sucks'. You can have decent conversations with Linux users there without them getting bent out of shape. They actually always thank and or thumb up my replies.
LiGNUt works out here btw.
what happened with my post? why china? Can I repost it???
has nothing to do with china, what the heck man?