&gt;  ...a much better option is to load a process from a checkpoint image, e.g. one taken by CRIU or DMTCP.<p>Almost completely unrelated: Two things that came out of the LKML examination of kdbus during the 4.1 merge request were:<p>1) kdbus makes assumptions that <i>break</i> CRIU and similar projects<p>2) The kdbus people didn&#x27;t seem to care much about this fact<p>So... the &quot;ultimate&quot; systemd setup may very well preclude the use of process checkpointers to speed up startup. :(