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Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

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Post by Dagger2 »

linsomniac wrote: post #84
takeda wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard about bufferbloat, but I didn't think it was related to bittorrent maximizing throughput

It depends: packet loss due to bitorrent is a problem, but low loss and high latency makes it dramatically worse, and that is the bufferbloat cast. If you have 1-30 second pings (or I've seen even worse), when doing torrents or other heavy outbound traffic, it falls apart.

Even 1 second is already pretty severe bufferbloat, let alone 30 seconds. Your latency should increase by under 25-125ms even with upstream and downstream both running flat out.

Re: Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

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Post by adsjhdashkj »

MarcScott wrote: post #42
adsjhdashkj wrote: post #40

Tangent, what's the best way to use Nix-like features in a mainstream distro? Eg, i've been evaluating PopOS recently because i want a Mac equivalent OS. Ie, i don't want driver/config issues. However one problem i never see solved from any "normal" distros is reproducible systems. Hypothetically if i used Nix as a Desktop my config would be bulletproof. .. but then i'm going through a fair amount of work configuring…

I just bit the bullet and use NixOS as my Desktop. There's a bit of work after initial install, to setup your config files the way you want, but after that you're all set. I've had no problems transferring my configs when I change hardware, and end up with an identical environment that I had on my previous computer.

Sidenote, i'm taking the plunge into NixOS, but notably using Flakes.

While i've dabbled in Nix in the past some things felt more odd to me than perhaps they should have. Primarily the fact that it felt like all these configs were spread out and i didn't understand how Nix wanted me to version them.

Flakes (from early tests) seems to make this very clear. As it starts from a repo, so i'm attempting to make all my configs, including Home Manager (of which also feels weird lol) start from the Flakes installation.

Flakes also solves the reproducibility problem that i didn't get why NixOS had. So far it's really neat.

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