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Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot |
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Sat, 13 May 2017 16:02:56 +0200 |
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Hi!
Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> 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’.