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shayonj

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    v interesting. Thanks for sharing. I kept seeing this phenomenon of "no free lunches". TIL about the waterbed theory.

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    > Nothing was solved. The four questions got new answers, and the costs moved into the compactor. I have been meaning to write on this topic and in relation to LSM for a while. So,…

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    Comment #47453145

    that's very interesting! I was noticing page vault storm on live migrations as well and I wonder if that's what you were running into / mentioning here regarding the lock contentio…

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    Comment #47425625

    > you can do things that aren't practical with 100-200ms startup: speculative parallel execution (fork 10 VMs, try 10 approaches, keep the best), treating code execution like a fun…

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    Comment #47425259

    Cool project. +1 on userfaultfd for the multi-node path. Wrote about how uffd-based on-demand restore works wrt to my Cloud Hypervisor change [1] if you are curious. I think the th…

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    Comment #47357298

    That's a good shout. I will update/port it back from here - https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/pull/78... , but quite fast

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    Comment #47195563

    This is going to be an interesting space to watch I think and big part of offering sandbox as a service basically for enterprise and saas needs.

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    Comment #47193697

    Yeah, it's hard to hit the right balance with nuance around these and you're spot on. What I meant to get at was the specific difference in default modes where gVisor's systrap int…

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    Comment #47193635

    Heya! nice to see you here. In retrospect it feels like CI companies and environments are very well suited for sandboxes since a lot of the problems overlap around ephemeral worklo…

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    Comment #47188909

    It touches in the gvisor section around the trade-off that the surface area for gvisor is smaller. There are trade offs. It’s not dishonest.