• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    One thing that no-one tested is the overhead of all the sandbox, like, each module, lybrary of program run in a sandbox(some times they tweak the source code not need the sandbox) so I wanted to see the overhead of all of that

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      3 months ago

      It build in a sandbox, but it’s not run in a sandbox.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t understand, if you run a program inside the sandbox and the program ask for a library, the kernel need to map the library from inside the sandbox to the program, that overhead that I’m talking about

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          3 months ago

          This is not how NixOS works. Programs directly link against libraries in the store. There is no sandbox by default when running the binaries.

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          3 months ago

          But it’s not run in a sandbox. I’m not sure where you get this from.

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      3 months ago

      No, because it miss an ui for the config changes.

      I think NixOS is also doing some layering that could cost performance. I am unsure about the storage size, if it is much more like flatpak and snaps that I also dislike.