distros with isolated programs? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I had a program sorta freeze up my system without apparently using much resources and its something I have seen a lot in windows and it not happening as much in linux but it does happen. That made me wonder if a system that isolated it more would prevent that. So I guess two questions. Im curious about any distros that isolate the non os programs more and also if anyone knows if this actually would stop what I see happening (my theory is maybe it makes some sort of micro ask for resources that bogs down the system but im not really sure why it happens or for sure which program did it.)

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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.

Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you're running.

If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don't know how to limit is GPU compute.

[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

If resource usage was low, it could also be an X11 problem solved by a wayland distro

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