From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:02:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inl43ldb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k25ljkzk.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sat, 13 May 2017 00:04:31 -0700")
Hi!
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Which essentially means when the proot'd software is first loaded from disk?
> Am I right to think that the performance would be the same after the
> prooted program is all mapped in memory?
No, every syscall is going to take much longer. So if you try, say, to
run a build process under PRoot, that’s probably going to be much
slower. OTOH, if you run a program that spends most of its time doing
computations, there’s probably not a big difference.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-13 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-12 15:53 Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-12 16:20 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-05-12 21:28 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-05-13 5:38 ` Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot - or relocate Pjotr Prins
2017-05-13 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-13 7:04 ` Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-13 14:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-06-08 15:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 8:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-16 12:35 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-07-16 12:51 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-07-16 16:09 ` Pjotr Prins
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