[19:04] <sauce_> i notice that when using cloud-init (with ec2), there is quite a delay in the machine booting up and cloud-init doing its thing. i judge "doing its thing" by tailing syslog.  any way to reduce the delay?
[20:12] <harlowja> sauce_ reduce the number of services in your operating system that startup before cloudinit
[20:12] <harlowja> mininize packages, services, ...
[20:18] <sauce_> harlowja its the bare ubuntu 12.04 AMI.  not much is going on
[20:18] <sauce_> i watch it just sit there for about 60 seconds, maybe more.  i'm patient so i don't mind :)
[20:18] <sauce_> but i was just wondering why
[20:18] <harlowja> where is this running?
[20:18] <harlowja> amazon?
[20:18] <sauce_> yes
[20:18] <harlowja> so then u might have hit a hypervisor in amazon that is heavily loaded
[20:19] <harlowja> and thats why its taking longer
[20:19] <harlowja> http://allthingsd.com/20130225/the-problem-with-noisy-neighbors-in-the-cloud/
[20:19] <sauce_> is this common though?
[20:19] <harlowja> i'm unsure, the general problem is known
[20:19] <harlowja> but i don't use amazon, so not sure
[21:07] <sauce_> ok cool so i guess that answers my question: cloud-init does not have any sort of delay programmed in
[21:18] <harlowja> sauce_ ya, it doesn't