Re: How to make XQuartz/MacOS <--> IceCat/GuixSD fast?

2018-01-16 Thread Chris Marusich
George myglc2 Clemmer writes: > I want to speed up IceCat on my GuixSD headless server. I am using > XQuartz/MacOS over 1000BaseT to reach a server with 3.4GHz Intel E3-1240 > V3 CPU and SSD storage. ISTM this is about as fast as one can make a > headless server. But IceCat is unusably slow. So I

Re: Running IceCat in a container

2018-01-16 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 17:30:42 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > “guix environment -C” makes $PWD shared; if you do (cd /tmp; guix > environment -C …), then /tmp is shared but not $HOME. I am doing that (I made a ~/.empty so as not to expose /tmp contents), but that still creates the home dir (as

Re: How to make XQuartz/MacOS <--> IceCat/GuixSD fast?

2018-01-16 Thread myglc2
On 01/15/2018 at 13:29 George myglc2 Clemmer writes: > I want to speed up IceCat on my GuixSD headless server. I am using > XQuartz/MacOS over 1000BaseT to reach a server with 3.4GHz Intel E3-1240 > V3 CPU and SSD storage. ISTM this is about as fast as one can make a > headless server. But IceCat

Re: Why is IceCat/GuixSD slower than Firefox/Debian on headless servers?

2018-01-16 Thread myglc2
On 01/16/2018 at 11:56 Vladimir Sedach writes: >> Running from a desktop to a headless server, and based on side-by-side >> clicking, IceCat/GuixSD takes ~5x times as long as Mozilla/Debian to >> respond to clicks. Further, Mozilla/Debian takes ~5x times as long as >> Mozilla running on the deskto

Re: Why is IceCat/GuixSD slower than Firefox/Debian on headless servers?

2018-01-16 Thread Vladimir Sedach
> Running from a desktop to a headless server, and based on side-by-side > clicking, IceCat/GuixSD takes ~5x times as long as Mozilla/Debian to > respond to clicks. Further, Mozilla/Debian takes ~5x times as long as > Mozilla running on the desktop. The bottom line: IceCat/GuixSD is > unbearably sl

Re: problem with Icecat in GuixSD 0.14.0

2018-01-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I see... I hope someone can send a detailed report to the original projects so as to help them fix it. ;) 2017-12-21T13:27:02+0100 Martin Castillo wrote: > I wasn't asking for help. I just wanted to say that it may be a problem > outside of guix.

Re: Why is IceCat/GuixSD slower than Firefox/Debian on headless servers?

2018-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
George myglc2 Clemmer skribis: > Running from a desktop to a headless server, and based on side-by-side > clicking, IceCat/GuixSD takes ~5x times as long as Mozilla/Debian to > respond to clicks. Further, Mozilla/Debian takes ~5x times as long as > Mozilla running on the desktop. The bottom line:

Re: Running IceCat in a container

2018-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mike, Mike Gerwitz skribis: > I'm running IceCat in a container, with the goal of isolating it form > the rest of my system as much as possible without running a full > VM. Here's what I have so far: > > #+BEGIN_SRC sh > guix environment \ > --container \ > --network \ > -r "$

Re: Guix and sel4

2018-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Paul Boddie skribis: > There was a remark about the Hurd in the previous thread. The one difference > I > tend to perceive between the Hurd and systems like L4Re and Genode is that > the > latter things tend to be demonstrated almost like embedded solutions - you > build a specific p

Re: How can I use ()

2018-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alex, Alex ter Weele skribis: > Based on this, what I think I want to do is something like: > > ,enter-store-monad > (build (list (gexp->script "test" (backup-home "alex" > > And then run the resulting script file. However, doing such gives the > error: > > ERROR: In procedure string->utf

Re: Seeking best-practice for managing guix-defined VMs

2018-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I wonder about the best-practice for managing VMs built using `guix > system vm`. I’d recommend letting ‘guix system vm’ manage the stateless part of the VM, and if there’s any state, store it in a separate directory shared with the host with “--share”. > My id