# systemd

Use systemd to make benchmark or serving processes restartable and auditable.

Recommended pattern:

- Prefer user services for personal workstation inference.
- Keep model paths and ports in environment variables.
- Use `ExecStartPre` for cheap sanity checks, such as verifying a model path
  exists.
- Avoid hardcoding LAN IPs in public examples.
- For benchmark windows, stop or mask conflicting inference services before the
  run, then restore and verify afterward.