Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> skribis: >> Five seconds to spawn a process is already relatively long; we could >> increase it a little, but the slowness here is a concern. > > Whereas the problems with file access are known and understood > (ultimately it is the important differences in low-level file handling > between Linux and macOS), I have no idea why the startup time for these > daemons is so high. There is no significant CPU performance overhead > when running Guix in Docker, nor do the daemons require any access to > files managed by macOS.
Do you observe similar slowness with other Docker images—e.g., Debian images? Thanks, Ludo’.