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[CI:DOCS] socket_activation.md: Add start/stop sections

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* Add section "Starting a socket-activated service".

* Add section "Stopping a socket-activated service".

* Clarify in the diagrams that socket activation
  only happens for the first client connection.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com>
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The architecture looks like this
``` mermaid
stateDiagram-v2
[*] --> systemd: client connects
[*] --> systemd: first client connects
systemd --> podman: socket inherited via fork/exec
```
@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ $ export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock
$ docker-compose up
```
When __docker-compose__ or any other client connects to the UNIX socket `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock`,
the service _podman.service_ is started. See its definition in the file _/usr/lib/systemd/user/podman.service_.
## Socket activation of containers
Since version 3.4.0 Podman supports socket activation of containers, i.e., passing
@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ as can be seen in the following diagram:
``` mermaid
stateDiagram-v2
[*] --> systemd: client connects
[*] --> systemd: first client connects
systemd --> podman: socket inherited via fork/exec
state "OCI runtime" as s2
podman --> conmon: socket inherited via double fork/exec
@ -207,6 +210,18 @@ container then runs with less privileges.
When using rootless Podman, network traffic is normally passed through slirp4netns. This comes with
a performance penalty. Fortunately, communication over the socket-activated socket does not pass through
slirp4netns so it has the same performance characteristics as the normal network on the host.
Note, there is a delay when the first connection is made because the container needs to
### Starting a socket-activated service
There is a delay when the first connection is made because the container needs to
start up. To minimize this delay, consider passing __--pull=never__ to `podman run` and instead
pull the container image beforehand.
pull the container image beforehand. Instead of waiting for the start of the service to be triggered by the
first client connecting to it, the service can also be explicitly started (`systemctl --user start echo.service`).
### Stopping a socket-activated service
Some services run a command (configured by the systemd directive __ExecStart__) that exits after some time of inactivity.
Depending on the restart configuration for the service
(systemd directive [__Restart__](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#Restart=)),
it may then be stopped. An example of this is _podman.service_ that stops after some time of inactivity.
The service will be started again when the next client connects to the socket.